- 10 - successfully laboured for seven years. V/hatever the ceuse he certainly departed to another sphere of usefulness. He appears to have been a man of much energy and force of character who had a happy knack of management, by which he iuduced his people to fall in with his ideas and essist in carrying out his plans. He wes remarkably friendly with Protestants of all denominations and often received very substantial proof of their regard in the shape of subscriptions, towards any parochial enterprise he might have on hand. As an instance of this, one of his subscription lists was headed by £10, a large sum in those days, which was given to him by Kr. Palmer, the father of our honoured chief justice. Father Fitzgerald was quick tempered and very unceremonious and peremptory in his dealings with his own flock, end many laughable stories are handed down to us. of scenes in the first St. Dunstan's when h3 reigned there as mission priest. ■ His mode of catechising was surprising if not systematic; for instance, in the middle of a sermon he would stop, short, fix his piercing eye on some young girl who might chance to be kneeling near the pulpit and would insist on her repeating the Lord's Frayer aloud I He waged a violent warfare against curls, ornamental plaits, etc. sometimes going so far as to cut off those offending decorations in the face of the assembled congregation. A lady who was present during the occurrence relates how one morning at flfess Father Fitzgerald espied a young damsel whose lock3, of a fiery euburn, hung in bunches of corkscrew curls at each side of her rosy visage. At the close of the sermon the congregation was startled to hear the priest say:- "Let Ellen Former come up to the sanctuary railing at the end of ma3s." At the appointed time, poor Ellen, blus.iin; and trembling, obeyed. "What do you me>an by wearing those curls?" said the priest. "I mean to improve a very ordinary countenance your reverence," said the dymsel. "How do ycu knew it improves your appearance ?" asked the priest. "I've tried both ways your reverence!! "Do you expect to get married Ellen?" "Faix, it won't be my fcult if I don't your reverence."