170 EEMIXISCEXCES OF A SPOETSMAN. 



A vicious set they are, bringing up their families in 

 idleness and profligacy ; proceeding from crime to crime, 

 till at last their career ends either on the gallows or in 

 transportation. Your Gael, on the contrary, has a fine 

 rough sort of humour about him ; peculiar enough, to 

 be sure. Thus the man who refused thirty thousand 

 pounds for betraying his prince was hanged at last for 

 stealing a cow. 



