where Mrs. Gaynor's is and I kissed the picture of him. They were
laughing at me for doing that, but I had heard of his good name. There
was some poor man, a tinker, asked help of him one time in Dublin, and
he said, 'I will put you in a place where you will get some good thing.'
So he brought him to a lodging in a very grand house and put him in it.
And in the morning he began to make saucepans, and he was making them
there, and the shopkeeper that owned the house was mad at him to be
doing that, and making saucepans in so grand a house, and he wanted to
get him out of it, and he gave him a good sum of money to go out. He
went back and told that to O'Connell, and O'Connell said, 'Didn't I tell
you I would put you in the way to get some good thing?'"


A PRESENT

"There was a gentleman sent him a present one time, and he bade a little
lad to bring it to him. Shut up in a box it was, and he bade the boy to
give it to himself, and not to open the box. So the little lad brought
it to O'Connell to give it to him. 'Let you open it yourself,' says
O'Connell. So he opened it, and whatever was in it blew up and made an
end of the boy, and it would have been the same with O'Connell if he had
opened it."


HIS STRATEGY

"O'Connell was a grand man; the best within the walls of the world. He
never led anyone astray. Did you hear that one time he turned the shoes
on his horses? There were bad members following him. I cannot say who
they were, for I will not tell what I don't know. He got a smith to turn