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they did likewise at five in the morning. About fifty of them are already joined in a society. Fair blossoms ! Butwhat will the fruit be ? Aremarkable circumstance, we were informed, occurred near this place, about three weeks before :-Apoor woman, who owed her landlord fourteen pounds, scraped seven together, which she brought him. But he absolutely refused to take less than the whole, yet detained her in talk till evening. She then set out on a car. When she was within a mile of home, she over- took a soldier, who said he was exceedingly tired, and earnestly entreated her to let him ride with her on the car, to which she at length consented. When they came to her house, finding there was no town within two miles, he begged he might sit by the fire-side till morning. She told him she durst not suffer it, as hers was alone house, and there was none in it but herself and her girl : But at last she agreed he should lie in the girl's bed, and she and the girl would lie together. At midnight, two men, who had blackened their faces, broke into the house, and demanded her money. She said, " Then let me go into the next room and fetch it." Going in, she said to the soldier, " You have requited mewell for my kindness, by bringing your comrades to rob my house." He asked, " Where are they ?" She said, " In the next room." He started up, andran thither. The men ran away with all speed. He fired after them, and shot one dead; who, being examined, appeared to beher landlord ! So that a soldier was sent to protect an innocent woman, and pun- ish anhardened villain ! Tues. 19. I preached at ten to an uncommonly large and serious congregation at Edinderry. In the evening I preached at Tyrrel's Pass, where a small, dead society is all that now remains. Such another I found at Coolylough, on Wednesday, 20. Thursday, 21. Going to Athlone, I found the scene entirely changed ; there has not been for many years so much April, 1785.] life in the society. Many of the old dead members are quick- ened again. Many are added to them ; and there is no jar of