374 A MORNING AT BALLYSHANNON. 



Parson, "of the chief who lay hid for weeks 

 in the caves of the Captain's Throw, which 

 derives its name from that very circumstance? 

 There he lay in perfect safety in the very 

 centre of the enemy's position — under the 

 very hoofs of their cavalry, who must have 

 exercised every morning over his head." 



" The Parson and I," said the Captain, 

 " made a reconnoissance the other day into 

 these caves, and a curious and intricate 

 place it is. Our men carried lights. We 

 made a clue hy joining our reel-lines to- 

 gether, and the Parson probed the way with 

 his gaff-handle. We had not gone a dozen 

 yards before the cave branched into two, 

 that again into two more, each of which 

 branches was again subdivided ; and the 

 divided passages were so interlaced with each 

 other, and all so narrow, so low, and so much 

 alike, that, had it not been for the clue, we 

 should never have found our way back." 



" But the most curious and beautiful part," 

 said the Parson — "indeed the only part 

 which had any beauty, was a place which 

 we named the Captain's Study. It is a round 

 cave, twenty feet across, and pretty much 

 the shape of an oven, where the chief is sup- 



