THREENEHEILA WITHIN DRUM. 2,1 



rendered to the geese and the pigs suggesting 

 a lawn, and a half-choked pool which had been 

 an artificial pond. The roof is patched with 

 divers-coloured slates, and ghastly daubs of 

 whitewash streak the venerable chocolate hue 

 of the walls. The chimneys lean on one side, 

 the inevitable pigs roam freely around the pre- 

 mises, and on the top of a broken dismantled 

 cart an indefatigable cock appears to be cease- 

 lessly crowing in his loudest voice defiant chal- 

 lenges to another bashaw who keeps guard on 

 a contiguous midden. Issuing from this in- 

 teresting Lodge the wild-fowl shooter is accom- 

 panied by his host, who also carries a gun, and 

 has at his heels a pointer as like the spectre of 

 a dog as the hideous quadruped depicted by 

 Hogarth in one of the pictures of " Marriage a 

 la Mode." Billy the pointer has a pedigree 

 almost as respectable as that of his master, but 

 before an hour is over he proves that his edu- 

 cation has been sadly neglected, though his 

 his relish for the pastime in which he assisted 

 was instinctively keen. Billy the pointer is set 

 out to work in a wood covered with an under- 

 growth of brown ferns which yield the most 



