g2 QUEEN ANN'S MUSKETS. 



" Yes ; Frank, I'll bet my new Purday to a Queen Anne,* 

 that he would never have used his friends, as Sir Humphry 

 treated the unhappy philosophers whom he seduced into 

 Scotland, and shabbed off with half-a-pint of claret in a 

 rascally sheebein-house. No ; Hawker is a worthy fellow ; 



one, who, as our lamented countryman, Lord L , told 



Abernethy, ' puts his trust in Providence, and takes a big 

 drink/ By the way, I have often wondered that any honest 

 gentleman, having a Christian propensity for the bottle, would 

 venture within arms-length of that unjoyous and dispiriting 

 doctor, and here comes dinner !" 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Flood subsides My cousin's henchmen Their description Post-bag 

 arrives Messenger belated in the mountains The Fairy Glen Herd of 

 red deer Their destruction by poachers Gradual decrease Difficulties 

 in continuing them Anecdotes Rearing the fawns Sterility when 

 domesticated Red deer in parks The tame hind The Tyrawly stag 

 Skill requisite in shooting deer Curious anecdote. 



How rapidly the waters of a mountain river swell and 

 subside ! Last night the steep bank before the cabin-door 



* " Queen Anne's muskets" are in great repute among the Irish 

 peasantry, who assert that the barrels of these antiquated implements 

 are excellent. The following curious notice of these guns is extracted 

 from " An Appeal to the Public," by the unfortunate George Robert 

 Fitzgerald. 



" Informant was with his said master, and in the carriage with him, 

 when the said Geerge Robert Fitzgerald came up alone and unarmed, and 

 peaceably and politely addressed his father, the said George Fitzgerald, 

 who went home with his said son to Rockfield-lodge ; and had he wished 

 not to go with his said son, he might have refused going, he having in 

 his carriage, in which informant was, three bell-muzzled blunderbusses, 

 loaded with swan-drops, and a small ditto, and also three Queen Anne 's 

 muskets, with bayonets, loaded as aforesaid, and three fuzees, one of \ 

 which was loaded, together with a small sword. Four powder-horns, ail 

 -filled with gunpowder, one of which contained three pounds of gunpowder, 

 besides several large bags of musket balls, swan-drops, and slugs ; and had 

 the said George Fitzgerald, this informant's master, been disposed to 

 make any opposition in going home with his said son to Rockfield-lodge, 

 informant would have made use of said arms and ammunition in bis said 

 master's defence." Now we opine, that Colonel Hawker, and his " new 

 double-swivel gun," with Sam Singer at his back, would scarcely hazard 

 an engagement with this formidable vehicle. 



