268 MEMOIR OF A GENTLEMAN. 



assets to procure a grave ; our lights were not hidden, nor 

 our charities unrecorded. There was not a man shot, or 

 an arm broken, but my lady wife was dragged neck and 

 crop into the columns of the Connaught Journal as for 

 example : 



" ' THE LATE CAPTAIN MACNAB. Further particulars. 

 When the lamented gentleman fell, his second, Mr. Peter 

 Brannick, raised the body in his arms. Life, however, was 

 totally extinct, as the ball had fractured the fifth rib, and 

 passed directly through the pericardium. In its transit, the 

 fatal bullet shattered a portable tobacco-pipe, which the de- 

 ceased invariably carried in his right waistcoat pocket. The 

 body was immediately removed upon a door to Castle Toole, 

 where every attention to the remains of a gallant soldier was 

 given by the accomplished mistress. Indeed it is but right 

 to say, that this estimable lady superintended in person the 

 laying out of the corpse. At midnight three friars from 

 Ballyhownis, and a number of the resident clergy attended, 

 and a solemn high mass was celebrated in the great hall. 

 The reverend gentlemen employed upon this melancholy 

 occasion, have expressed their deep sense of the urbanity of 

 the lady of the mansion. 



" f We understand that, at the especial request of Mrs. 

 Dawkins, the body will remain in state at Castle Toole, until 

 it is removed to its last resting-place, the family burying- 

 ground at Carrick Nab.' Connaught Journal. 



ft ' The friends and relatives of Mr. Cornelius Coolaghan 

 will be delighted to hear that he has been pronounced 

 convalescent by Dr. M'Greal. A mistake has crept into 

 the papers, stating that the accident was occasioned by his 

 grey mare, Miss Magaraghan, falling at a six feet wall. 

 The fact was that the injury occurred in attempting to ride 

 in and out of the pound of Ballymacraken, for a bet of ten 

 pounds. As the village inn was not deemed sufficiently quiet, 

 Mr. C. C. was carried to the hospitable mansion of Castle 

 Toole. It is needless to add, that every care was bestowed 

 upon the sufferer by the elegant proprietress. Indeed, few 

 of the gentler sex so elegantly combine the charms and 

 amiabilities of the beautiful Mrs. Dawkins.' Ibid. 



" Well, sir, I submitted to my fate with more than mortal 

 fortitude. I saw that in rashly marrying one in taste, feeling 

 and sentiment so totally my opposite, I had wrecked my 



