8 SHAUN RUADHA. 



the fowler off the hills, he counts over with 

 Shaun a couple of woodcock, a heavy duck, a 

 teal, three brace of plover, four of snipe, a 

 hare, and a green plover (pewit) ; and then 

 departs into the gathering gloom, with an ap- 

 petite for dinner that is in itself worth coming 

 from Pall Mall to Rhein Dhuv to experience. 

 How long the road seems, how slow the horse ! 

 And what ruffians are those who interrupt our 

 route, who, having sold their pigs, are now as 

 drunken as the sow of David in the bottom of 

 their abominable waggons! But the lights 

 of the town are visible at length, and as the 

 car again rattles through the streets the sports- 

 man glances back on the hills, now silvered 

 with the shine of the moon, and is exceedingly 

 rejoiced to leave them, poetry, Shaun, game, 

 and all, in order to eat tender mutton, and put 

 his weary legs under a bright sparkling table. 



