^ FOX HUNTING. 



of the many holes in them for rest, knowing that 

 he is secure both from man and dog. 



The legend is that a bold highwayman named 

 Fitzpatrick, who, as one story goes, had been an 

 Irish soldier in the British army during the Revo- 

 lutionary War, and having deserted, turned rob- 

 ber, and the other being that he was a deserter 

 from the American army, after being punished for 

 some offence, and that these rocks were his main 

 haunt, where he had a c^ve in which he lived 

 alone and stored his booty, for if. he had any rob- 

 ber companions connected with him they never 

 gained the celebrity Fitz did; but, if a cave of suffi- 

 cient size for such a home ever existed it long ago 

 disappeared, although the mass of high, piled, 

 loose rocks are amply large for the formation of 

 a cave or construction of a hut. Fitzpatrick. as 

 the legend goes, had a very tender heart for the 

 poor and needy, and while he had no love for the 

 Whig and Patriot of that day and robbed their tax 

 collectors and well-to-do farmers and tradesmen, 

 yet he was said to have plundered only the rich, 

 and gave to the poor when he found them in need, 

 and, consequently, he had many friends among 

 them, and they shielded arid served him and saved 

 him often frofrt capture, and enabled him to lead 

 this roving, thieving life for a series of years, in 

 comparative security. As it is also told of him. 



