N.

Dublin.

_Praying to the West._--A friend of mine told me that a Highland woman in

Strathconan, wishing to say that her mother-in-law prayed for my friend

daily, said: "She holds up her hands to the _West_ for you every day." If

to the _East_ it would have been more intelligible; but why to the West?

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