“He is your honour.

“What age is he?

"Sure, he's my father your honour".

The people of Kincora adhere with great tenacity to the baptismal designations borne by their ancestors, so that naturally these names being repeated often, become Angmented in the process and we bear of Lauty's Biddy, and Pat's Ann, and Tim‘s Pat, and so forth. To avoid this endless repetition, the priest undertook to introduce a few new names and commenced by baptizing a little girl, born on the 15th November, Gertrude. This was looked upon as an unpard- onable breach of custom by one old woman of St. Malachy's. Upon hearing of it she put on her shawl and went to see her heighbour.

"Arrah" Said she, " did ye hear what county called the girl?"

No, what? asked the neighbour.

"garter" Said the dame with indescribable contempt.

Another old settler. hearing that his son had called his child Rosella, Agatha

nsaid:

"Fair, what a name, Rose Alligator“.

In 1872 the church of St. Malachy was enlarged and improved by Father Doyle

who added a chancel, vestry. tower and spire. It is complete in its appointments and contains a pretty altar, a fine statue in Carton Pierre, of the Sadred Heart and one of our Lady of Lourdes, besides plaster casts of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph, and a neat set of stations of the cross. Mr. Gilieans large pictude of the Crucifixion still adorns the wall of the Sanctuary.

Father Doyle has commenced building a charming residence close to the church which, when finished. will be an ornament to the country side. In the neatly, kept grave yard are many handsome marble monuments raised to perpetuate the

memory of the honoured deed. Such mark the graves wherein lie the mortal remains