PUBLISHED BY JAMES DUFFY, 7, WELLINGTON QUAY;
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Our Christmas Hamper,
444 Over a Cup of Tea,
132 Palissy, the Potter,
301 Paper, a Few Notes on,
300 Peacocks, Tales about,

396 Pencillings in Irish Antiquities,
41 Peter Pindar,

310 Rambles after Wild Flowers,

139 Real Grievance, A,

56 Retrospect of the Dublin Stage, A, 278 Royal Dublin Society, The,

366 Reynolds, Sir Joshua,

155 Sea-Side Sketch, A,

422 Self-Made,

389 Sibyls and their Books, The,
583 Some Gold Seekers of Old,

5 Something about Fine Things,

238 Starlight,

93 St. Valentine's Day,

308 Theatre of the Ancients, The,

235 Theory of Declarations, The,

271 Typography, the Past and Present of,
342 Under Green Leaves,

100 Under the Pestle,

63 Vagaries of Composition, The,

560 Victim of Advice, A,

462 Voice from an Owl, A,

46 Wearing the Shamrock and Wearing the 236

459 Weddings and their Associations,

475 What we get from Grapes,

21 Woman of Mark, A,

564

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164

Facts and Fancies About the Months, 469, 569 Angel Guardian, The,

316 April,

283 Autumn Evening, An,
453 Blue Sky, The,

83 By the Turnstile,

406 Christmas Eve,

461

52 Creation of the Sun, The, 543 Daisy Type, A,

159 Dirge, A,

439 Emigrant's Farewell, The,
197 Fancies,

From the Window

327 God Bless us, Every one,
247 Gra Gal Machree,

accompanied with more or less
of conviviality. The man of
meal is generally a droll good-
natured individual, full of anec-
dote and rough humour, always
ready either to give or take a
treat, as the case may be, but
still shrewd enough to make his
jokes and treats subservient to
his own interests. This in some
degree is necessary. There is
no parish without at least three
or four mills within its limits,
and the spirit, consequently,
by which their proprietors are
animated, is one of strong com-
petition for public favour.

This principle is looked upon with so much importance, even by
the landlords of the country, that it was usual some time ago,

[PRICE ONE PENNY.

whenever a man possessed an estate on which a mill stood, to
insert a clause in his leases, by which his tenantry were bound
to get their grain ground in that particular mill, and no other.
We believe there never was a penalty attached to this clause;
but, be that as it may, it was looked upon and treated as a
dead letter, the principal motive for supporting any particular.
mill being the popularity of the miller, and his power of con-
ciliating good will. Formerly a great degree of bodily strength

was an essential and in dis-
pensable quality in a miller,
especially in remote districts,
where improved habits of
agriculture and the more
civilized usages of life had
not reached. We remember,
ourselves, when even the com-
mon, low-backed car, with
solid wheels of wood, could
be seen only with a few
of the wealthiest farmers of
the parish. At that time oats
and other grain were carried
in large sacks, thrown across
the naked backs of the horses,
as they were conveyed either
to the mill or the market, and
the usual seat of the individuals
who conveyed them was on the
top of the sacks, for the pur-
pose, they said, of keeping
them balanced, so as that they
might not pitch to one side and
fall off. Now, when the grain
was turned into meal, it was
the duty of the miller, as soon
as it was put into the sacks
once more, in cases where the
owner of it was a weak and
feeble man, to "back the
sack," and throw it across the
horse in order to be carried
home. All these old usages,
however, have nearly disap-
peared-the slide car is gone,

except in mountain districts, where no other can be used; the
wooden-wheeled car too is gone, and in its place has been substi-