THE DISLOYALTY OF ULSTER : AN APOLOGUE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Once upon a time there was a wife who had lived happily with her husband for many years. She was devoted to him, and espoused all his quarrels, which were many, and thought him the best of men. Now this woman had three unmarried sisters who, for family reasons, lived with her in the house of her husband. But they hated him, for which indeed they had some excuse, for he had treated them badly enough in times gone by ; and because their sister always took his part they disliked her too. They insisted on setting up a separate home for themselves, and nothing would serve them but that their married sister should leave her husband and come to live with them. But she vowed that she would never desert him. This went on for a long time, and at last the man grew so tired of the continual wrangling and abuse of his sisters-in-law that he said he could stand it no longer, and that they might go and set up a house of their own, and that if they wouldn't go without his wife she had better be divorced and go with them. At this his wife grew angry, and declared that she would rather die than leave her husband, and that she would die a dozen times rather than be forced to live with those who had always been his enemies. Then her sisters railed at her and said, "You call yourself a faithful wife, and yet you refuse to leave your husband when be tells you. Go to I You are rebellious and disloyal." Then the woman
said, "Really, this is the limit."—I am, Sir, &c., H. C. L
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