ADVENTURE. 89 



is entirely a knack of pitching the voice very high, 

 pronouncing each syllable with great distinctness, 

 and dwelling particularly long upon the last. 



Our shooting proceeds, and woodcocks again 

 begin to feel the effects of a Smith or a Purday's 

 gun, well directed. We have almost forgotten 

 the Albanians, when a cry of distress is heard 

 from the rear. " Confound those Albanians, we 

 shall lose half our sport," is in the mouth of 

 every one. The guardian, the stoutness of whose 

 nerves, and the equanimity of whose temper, has 

 been already sorely put to the test, is calling out 

 for assistance; for although there is no actual 

 mtlte, yet it is evident something has taken place 

 as nearly approaching to a scuffle as can be rea- 

 sonably imagined, where the party attacked dare 

 not touch the aggressor for fear of incurring the 

 penalty of quarantine. On hastening back to in- 

 quire the cause of this fresh adventure, we find 

 that the Albanians having cunningly observed 

 that the guardian had imprudently lagged a little 

 behind the rest of the party, one of them, watch- 

 ing his opportunity, after he had succeeded in 

 getting the guardian quite off his guard, by pre- 

 tending to enter into conversation with him in a 



