a taste o' the proper sand is in the bottom of it.'

"The wit of this, you see, pleased him, and we got an excellent treat
in his _studium_, or study: for he was determined to give myself another
trial.

"'What's the wickedest line in Virgil?' said he.

"Now I had Virgil at my fingers' ends, so I answered him:

'Flectere si nequeo superos, Aeheronta movebo,'

"'Very good,' said he, 'you have the genius, and will come to somethin'
yet: now tell me the most moral line in Virgil.'

"I answered:

'Discere justitiam moniti et non temnere divos.' *

* He is evidently drawing the long-bow here; this
anecdote has been told before.

"'Depend upon it,' said he, 'you will be a luminary. The morning star
will be but a farthing candle to you; and if you take in the learning as
you do the cheese, in a short time there won't be a man in Munsther
fit to teach you,' and he laughed, for you see he had a tendency to
jocosity.

"He did not give me up here, however, being determined to go deeper wid
me.