"'Be sated, madam,' sez she, p'intin' to a chair, 'yer must jine the circle.'
"'Faix, I'll ate a triangle, av yer wish,' sez I.
"'Yer must be very quiet,' sez she. An' so I set down along a lot av other folks at a table.
"'First I'll sing a hymn,' sez the majum, 'an' thin do all yees jine in the chorus.'
"Yer must excuse me, mum,' sez I. 'I niver could sing, but rather than spile the divarshun of the company, av any wan'll whistle, I'll dance as purty a jig as ye'll see from here to Bal'nasloe, tho it's meself as sez it.'
"Two young whipper-snappers begun ter laugh, but the look I gev them shut them up.
"Jist then, the big chap as had me two dollars kem into the room an' turned down the lights. In a minit the majum, shtickin' her face close to me own, whispers:
"'The sperrits is about—I kin feel them!'
"'Thrue for you, mum,' sez I, 'fur I kin shmell them!'
"'Hush, the influence is an me,' sez the majum. 'I kin see the lion an' the lamb lying down together.'