EECOLLBCTIONS, 1831-37. 125 



I have sawed you from killing your servant or her 

 ing killed yourself by him ? Do you not see yet the 

 but end of that musket in my hand swinging over your 

 head and that of your drunken valet ? Did I look like 

 one afraid of you ? " Baron ! out of fashion ? (he 

 was called a Baron and the mother a Baroness). He 

 and that man had a difficulty. The servant was drunk 

 and insulted him without any reason whatever. He 

 was sitting eating his dinner when the fellow, drunk, 

 went to him and took him by the arm and abusing him. 

 Then the insulted man took a carving knife to stab him, 

 but the fellow was a powerfully strong man, stopped 

 his arm but could not snatch the knife from him then. 

 I was coming from my room when I saw all the women 

 in the house screaming in a terrific manner. By that 

 time they had got out of the dining room and where 

 in a large kitchen where there was a large table 10 or 

 12 or more feet long and 6 inches thick, running up to 

 a mantle piece over which were 2 or 3 fowling pieces. 

 I could not separate them, 1 would have been crushed 

 between them, both strong men. I jumped on the 

 table, took one of the rnuskets by the barrel. They 

 were wrestling at the end of the table close by me ; 

 then I shouted if any one of you move one inch either 

 way I smash his head ! I had no looking glass to see 

 how I looked, but all the women told me after, that I 

 looked like a demon, that my eyes were protruding out 



