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Yankee mounted amidships, began to throw its shot to a most 

 alarming proximity. The Bull's Mouth was before, and a 

 rakish schooner that, to use a fancy phrase, " would not be 

 denied," was astern ; there was no alternative, and for the 

 first, the most probably the last time, the King's bunting 

 sought safety within the sound of Achil. Finding her water 

 lessen for she had actually crossed the Ridge Point before 

 she hauled her wind the Fox abandoned the pursuit, and left 

 the Irish coast for America, where she duly arrived, after a 

 daring and destructive, but a very unprofitable cruise. 



Safely landed at the Lodge, but all is in an uproar ! 

 Colonel Dwyer, an honoured and expected visitor, has arrived 

 in safety, but he comes minus his portmanteau, which some 

 delinquent, neither having the fear of hanging or my kinsman's 

 wrath before his eyes, abstracted from Andy Bawn, to whom 

 its safe delivery was entrusted. Nothing can surpass the 

 surprise and consternation this event occasions the women 

 are clamorous the men curse fluently in Irish and, from the 

 vows of eternal vengeance which are uttered against the 

 spoliator of the Colonel's wardrobe, I should imagine, in case 

 of apprehension, that the ceremony of waiting till the next 

 assizes will be dispensed with. Antony " remembers the 

 country these seventy years : many a robbery happened in his 

 time, but God stand between him and evil ! to take a 

 gentleman's property, and he coming to the master ! If it 

 was a stranger, why there would be no great harm," &c. &c. 



Fear and poteein disturb the concatenation of ideas, and 

 Andy Bawn's is anything but a lucid narrative. There is 

 a confused account of the Bridge of Ballyveeney, and a dark 

 man, and the clicking of a gun-cock. Now it appears that 

 Andy is at feud with a Mr. Burke, who finished a relative of 

 his with a turf-slane* and in consequence has deemed it 

 advisable to take to the mountain until terms can be arranged 

 with the widow. Meantime, being a gentleman of active 

 disposition, he occupies his leisure hours upon the highway, 

 and all parties are unanimous in saddling him with the spolia- 

 tion of the portmanteau. I am inclined to suspect, that my 

 kinsman hitherto sported deaf -adder to any rumour of Burke 



* An implement used for cutting turf, and heads occasionally. 



