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we are as the company think proper the s obligation is merely a repetition of the same description of to the king bi the irish agent and so long as he or they maintain the c c together with such other obligations of secrecy as are to be found either in orange or ribbon with very slight difference in their form and expr... | 50 |
constitution sitting without any legal authority upon the ous opinions of a class that are hateful and to them and in fact within themselves the united offices of both judge and with the character of their loyalty i have no quarrel i perceive it is but the doctrine of loyalty is so and absurd that the sooner such an u... | 50 |
come solomon said a large broad shouldered man with a face in which were singularly blended the principles of fun and ferocity come solomon none of your preaching here so soon you know you re not up to the praying point yet nor within four of it so as you say yourself wait for your gifts my lad ah tom replied solomon... | 50 |
opportunity of getting out of him a tolerably fair account of the persons by whom we were surrounded i accordingly asked him the name and occupation m of several whom i had observed as the most striking individuals present that large man with the red face said i beside your pious and musical friend who is he he is an ... | 50 |
the adversary of and whenever i can a by so here there was a look of sarcastic defiance turned upon who conscious of his own integrity merely returned it with a meek and smile a la solomon no gentlemen i am none of these things but a bold honest who will support the church and constitution for ever who will to th... | 50 |
they don t deserve us to stand by them i say it s a d d he i was at the of the when you sickness and wouldn t go and i m glad i didn t a business you made of it to pull down the houses and wreck the furniture about the ears of a set of women and children i say such conduct is disgraceful to an what the devil right ha... | 50 |
to bed this being the inn in which i stop i accordingly was about to ascend the staircase from the for we sat in the back drawing room when i thought i heard a voice that was not to me giving expression to language in which i could perceive there was a very peculiar of love and devotion that is to say it was exceedingl... | 50 |
gives us so much confidence and strength as to know our own weakness but my sweet girl of what use is it for us to know it if we do not feel it and why feel it unless we it for better purposes to teach us a practical lesson to humble us that s queer doctrine mr m and i don t properly imder stand it i know you don t my... | 50 |
of religion to the worst and most purposes thus far our friend mr whom we leave to follow up his into the state of the castle property and its management hoping that his discoveries and may at some future day be of service to the on that fine estate as well as to the country at large in the mean time we beg our read... | 50 |
that gentleman thought proper to break the ice of ceremony and address liim sir your most obedient said the priest excuse my freedom i am the rev mr m catholic of castle but as i reside in the parish it is very possible you don t know me mr felt much hurt at the thrown out against his long absence from the parish and ... | 50 |
college and sent back from the college with the crust of their original prejudices upon them are not those from whom educated are to expect refinement or good manners from the ditch i we are taken from life proud parson to the college and it is better i enter college from the simplicity of humble life thai to enter the... | 50 |
m unable to inform the reader we are inclined to think it must have been placed there by some wag who wished to ridicule the extent to which mere loyalty was carried in those days and the warmth of admiration with which its most were received the picture in question was the portrait of a pious who was too conscientious... | 50 |
are right said sir william if we can t hang him let us send him across he had no business to touch the hair of a blood hound s head this is pretty justice isn t it why didn t the rascal stand and let himself be shot in the irish agent obedience to the spirit of the constitution rather than a blood hound i tell you my g... | 50 |
of back trot in the castle and he will tell you we all know that very well no thanks to your observed the truth is he did not wish to let him out for a reason he has he added at the rest let us hear the said and get through the business as quickly as we can m is that asked sir william who was engaged in the spy system ... | 50 |
drum where the parties just had time to secure the still itself but were forced to leave the head and worm behind them now that i give as a fair illustration of our getting the papers and missing the arms besides said he in a and confidential tone addressed to a of his friends the whom he joined lower end of the room y... | 50 |
of the grand would scarcely reach so high in the mean time i shall think of it the bridge however was not only passed but built and actually stands to this day an honesty of grand and the affection which they were then capable of bearing to each other when their interests happened to be at stake which was just four tim... | 50 |
him m said one or two of them he ll make as good an under replied as there will be in europe him gentlemen you will get no such man m and that is just said sir william aside to all that recommendation is good for and thus closed as much as we feel necessary to describe of that extraordinary scene a grand jury room in ... | 50 |
is no sympathy between these men that there sits the arid there stands the oppressed but even this is not all bestow a still more searching glance upon the scene here is more than more than the of and fraud more than the cruel of character in the presence of so many mark the words of that agent or landlord again m he i... | 50 |
and who came there only to make that melancholy statement and to pray for mercy here was shivering not merely with the cold assault of the elements but from the dreaded apprehension of the terrible downcast looks that spoke of keen and cutting misery eyes that were dead and hopeless in expression and occasionally a... | 50 |
said the sturdy farmer you know the proverb sir man but god what do you mean what language is this to my father be off to h or sir or we ll make it worse for you ha bow ho did not utter the last but his face expressed it that s not the religious individual i took him to be s d solomon there is much of the of in him... | 50 |
helping forward of religion and that is my justification call in a poor looking man now entered with a staff in his hand by the aid of which he walked for he was lame well your rent i have scrambled it together sir from god knows how many said solomon aside is it not painful to hear how habitually these dark creatures ... | 50 |
be able to do so he always kept over the tenant s bead what is called a hanging gale which means that he was half a year s rent in the crops were then brought home to the agent s place and frequently to save appearances to the haggard of some friend of his where they were kept until the got up to the highest price so ... | 50 |
care to leave me no r motion in the business at all but surely sir you don t mean to say that unless i pay the rent you will seize upon my property this said as if to himself is really y distressing unfortunately mrs i indeed unless you can raise the money in some y wouldn t your friends for instance stand by you unti... | 50 |
property and to pay you or him that you the hard earned rent that keeps them in poverty and hardship i think sir it ought to be your duty as i said to protect me and such as me rather than leave us exposed to the proposals of your son how is this v said where are yoa entered with a grin on him that betrayed very clearl... | 50 |
grey eyes which were fastened on solomon with a bitter significance that indicated such a community of knowledge as did not seem to be pleasant to either of them ah sam said always punctual and never more welcome than now and we are sam to make up the demand for the landlord what way ir ye mr m am to see ye luck so wel... | 50 |
your position i have no such i assure you so that whatever apprehensions may entertain from others you need have from me and now mr m do you m perceive that you judged me and ui that s to be seen yet mr m time wi tell well then make your mind easy i shall no proceedings in consequence of your situation s far from that... | 50 |
will do out with it out with it i see ike tip of it only but you must give measure ay that s like it heel oh there tongue never did you good nor any body else good and what blessed eyes you have they re out too by degrees as the lawyers goes to heaven now now ay where s your gone to it s you ll make of it in s iron... | 50 |
to restrain him a principle as would prevent him from managing property according to the influence of his his prejudices or his necessities that is very true said mr and ere is another duty which a landlord owes to those upon his property but one which is not recognized as such i mean a moral in my opinion a landlord ... | 50 |
considered said it is better that we should anticipate them when i say we you of course know who i mean but indeed we shall expect every aid and it will be welcome no matter from what quarter it comes m and the estate in question are topics on which i wish not to speak said i the irish agent not blame lord for me mr th... | 50 |
of misery of despair his blood despite the of his face absolutely boiled in his veins and that the more hotly because he had no object on which he could his vengeance who was always cool and not without considerable powers of observation at once noticed the tumult of his feelings and as if replying to them said i don ... | 50 |
drop hints wherever i went that you and mr m were upon the point of and i from some words i heard say to solomon one morning that they put something into the paper that injured you what was it you heard said said all right solomon it s in and d n my honour and reputation but it will set a screw loose in the same fir... | 50 |
now finding that the law existed only for their punishment they resolved to for themselves and on their there is an awful lesson in all this for it is certainly a frightful thing to see law and justice so partially and administered as to society and make men look upon murder as an act of justice and the shedding of blo... | 50 |
took five as good butter from me as ever was made by ha and at his own price too what i do said it was as a friend he did it but if i it he said he must only seize may the devil s him at any rate as he will the villain i ti in god he got to my own knowledge pence a for it and all he allowed me fo was eight pence may th... | 50 |
we were scattered a house to cover us may the lord reward him to his works there were other cases where s was brought to bear upon the poverty and of the and female but it is not our intention to do more than allude to them we now return to young o himself who at the conclusion once more got a candle and precisely in t... | 50 |
wicked intention of their guilty hands in blood teach them a clear sense of christian duty to love their very enemies to forgive all injuries that may be inflicted on them and to lead such lives as may never be the irish agent disturbed by a sense of guilt or the of remorse i the tears flowed fast down his aged cheeks ... | 50 |
the truth mary i fear i am i feel certainly very feverish i am burning then for heaven s sake go to bed my dear mother and let the doctor at once be sent for if i don t get easier soon i will replied her mother i do not much like going to bed it looks so like a fit of sickness at this moment a tap at the door announce... | 50 |
this continued and she appeared to feel she then entered into conversation and f as able to talk with more ease and firmness than he had evinced for many a day before it was u t then that a knock came to the hall door and in couple of minutes about a dozen of s selected to act as and a task to which they were entered ... | 50 |
evidently proceeding from first o you both see that strong horse pistol said voice for in those days an execution was b always by armed men by the bible th if i hear another word of such conversation man here while we re under this roof i ll he butt of it into his skull it s bad enough re re here on an unpleasant dut... | 50 |
for truth to tell he was at all times an subject on which to produce religious impressions be this as it may a day or two previous to the discussion his wife that he was near his dissolution and determined if possible that he should not die a roman catholic went in a hurry for mr who to be in attendance on a funeral an... | 50 |
high and mr pull out i see you re hard up sir and so is your push him sir even if he should drop death and before and well done ah be me its near the last gasp him and his and no they re both devilish far out of their element faith if they had father m and s practice they wouldn t be the show they are this minute wed d... | 50 |
both n y thing but what you ought to be and if i wasn t on my death bed you d hear more of it here is a christian clergyman and under his i will die ah said mr i perceive mrs that the poor man s intellect is gone whilst his reason was sound he remained a and as such we shall claim him he must be according to the rites ... | 50 |
heartily tired of their officers and had already begun to think of withdrawing altogether from the corps unless there were some change for the better made in it now at this precise state of feeling with regard to both circumstances had arrived when he met his on the day when that gallant gentleman himself by his grandm... | 50 |
and i suppose by the aid of a mob to take away all that is valuable of their by force i must remove it once as the law under such powers me to do for i cannot sit by and suffer ir to be robbed in addition to being h and by these men their families the full force however this unpleasant intelligence still i do not thin... | 50 |
corps of now you are perfectly at to tow whatever you wish upon your new m corps provided these contain no against existing corps i think the fore that whilst others have heen for some ti formed in the neighbourhood your use the term respectable was to say the least of i also perceive that you have wi ten to some of my... | 50 |
with the following letter signed by the in of the meeting be forwarded to henry hai ey esq sir having associated for the safety and of this portion of the country as well as for protection of our families and properties we fed i selves particularly called upon on an occasion the present to stand forward and the m atta... | 50 |
it not merely among those who were under our thumb the poor and the struggling who fell in consequence of your threats and therefore through fear of us only but when higher game and purposes were in view see what a miserable hand you made of it i tell you if i were to live through a whole eternity i could never forgiv... | 50 |
he spoke in a low whisper why to my vengeance it was my design to have made one aid in the oppression of another go oflf to castle and let twelve or fourteen of my own corps come to m s with their horses and carts immediately call also to m and desire him to meet me there forthwith and bid and the other two fellows to... | 50 |
on and in the mean time i think it would be well to get and those other two who were out with for his protection for the fellow to be afraid and arms it would be as well i say to get two or three additional against this pre m by my return for we must make our case as firm as we can whether the fellow s a agent or whe... | 50 |
though he were guilty oh i could argue strongly on but that i know now is not the hour well but to business mr m my wants the money into her own hands and in her own hands it shall be placed mr but this you are aware cannot be done for a few days until at all events i go to when will that be asked about this day week ... | 50 |
how it ll soon come back to in a few minutes solomon was on his way with an anxious expectation that he had been called upon to draw up s will on reaching his father s heard from tom with a good deal of surprise that solomon had been sent for expressly a glance however at the invalid induced him to suppose that such a ... | 50 |
say that old took care not to allow him an opportunity of falling into a single on the subject as ft natural consequence hated him and would hare come long before to an open with him were it not that he feared to make him bis enemy ho also thought it possible that out of respect for m v i thb irish agent moment have th... | 50 |
comes the now for business so then you wh proceed mr m said m proceed he replied looking at him as it were with amazement proceed ha ha ha truly that is mirth observed solomon i must say as much even although your cause bo a just cause and one supported by the laws by our blessed laws that protect the rights of the... | 50 |
you sir replied this is o trap a spy and agent said looking into the hue and cry and again surveying he is imposing on you mr this gentleman sir proceeded is the honourable richard brother to the right honourable lord and who has the honour to present you with this communication from that nobleman said mr which cont... | 50 |
or take the part of a poor man so far from that i find that you have invited and their the irish agent only in case they did not satisfy your petty that you might betray them to your employer whilst under all possible circumstances you them by threats and acted the on a small scale you are no longer a on this estate ... | 50 |
an unpleasant manner by mr he knew his own powers of however too well to despair of being able could he see to replace himself as firmly as ever in his good opinion with this purpose in view he his way to the house where he understood the newly made bishop yet was having made arrangements to proceed the if next morning... | 50 |
for it was nothing else glory be to god that you gave me the day of the argument an now your reverence he offered me a bribe if i d do it what bribe why sir he put his hand his apron sure he has a black silk apron on him now for all the world like a big man cook dressed out in he put his hand his apron and a got i... | 50 |
a fool ol iii i m for putting such a question to you oo to bed and sleep yourself sober staggered out of the room in a very musical mood the door after him with a force that made the house shake he had not gone a hundred yards from the hall door when appeared in the distance him forward a signal for which he was lookin... | 50 |
that proceeded as it were out of the accumulated affection of a heart whose tenderness shed its light where that of reason failed my manly son your young cheek is not pale now nor your eye dim you don t fear the hard hearted agent nor his blood hounds nor the and storm that beat upon your poor head an you you don t ... | 50 |
you know i could not suffer any one else to many thanks to you sir in the meantime well then said the priest as i know and understand the feeling i shall not press the matter but since the body cannot be left without protection i think you had better go down and fetch a few neighbours with a door and let her be removed... | 50 |
to the spot just when was about to repeat in reality the imaginary scene with the pillow ho ho he shouted give us measure a little more of it the same tongue t a m your own friend nor the friend of any one else ha ha ho ho ho there that s one take it out o that will you this for white head and this for mary m ... | 50 |
s one poor young man exclaimed father if you were not so completely an object of contempt you would surely be one of compassion may god in his mercy pity and relieve the unfortunate people whose domestic comforts and general happiness are to such an extent in the keeping of men like you and your wretched father men wh... | 50 |
death dances the s virtues and christian death the honourable richard alexander for he was sometimes called the one and sometimes the other but most frequently richard had been for several years on the continent where he found it more economical to reside than at home a circumstance connected with a gambling debt o... | 50 |
on their return from her father s house after having witnessed their subsequent marriage by father that he met his brother s carriage containing his dead body richard possessed a mind above any empty title and perhaps there lived not a man j who more sincerely the event which made him lord and put him in possession of ... | 50 |
the doing which will require about three hours and when the oil is sufficiently boiled it will bum a feather the addition of some indian rubber was suggested to me but of this i did not make a trial because the dressing answered so well without it when the oil is quite cold take a clean paint brush and well work it int... | 50 |
cunning of the should not he set him on the contrary his opportunities of indulging in it if indeed he ever have any will most certainly he few and far the means of success should the chance occur ought to he made to him details of its stirring scenes and associations the economy of its perilous pleasure while exciti... | 50 |
wild timid herd some part of the forest is selected a deer to which the deer are to be driven a great number of hill men and who thoroughly understand what they are about ore then sent to the farthest extremity to bring all the deer they can collect to this spot the passes of course being well blown are occupied by the... | 50 |
in the third year these roots put out two in the fourth three in the fifth four and before the end of the sixth there are six or seven on either side however this is no strict rule the branches differ constantly in shape and number in the museum at they deer a horn having twenty eight while gives instances where a horn... | 50 |
how do deer you exercise your art i spread my and set them in a fit place and instruct my hounds to pursue the wild deer till they come to the unexpectedly and so are entangled and i them in the cannot you hunt yes with hounds i follow the wild deer what wild deer do you chiefly take and rein deer and and sometime... | 50 |
resist giving the young in conclusion north s of the death of the red deer it is so thoroughly yonder by the stands a red deer the east wind he an enemy in that but death comes upon him with stealthy foot from the west and if and be now his shall be entangled in the and his hoofs beat the heavens flourish the rifle a... | 50 |
which indeed will equally serve to give spirit to your own exploits never permit a dog to run in when a bird falls the best remedy for this mischievous vice is the collar called and if you have patience enough in the first instance let him run in and tear his bird to pieces while you load this may make him ashamed of h... | 50 |
cultivated districts nor until warned by the gun will it become wild and but permit the approach of man but by the peculiar note which is probably one of warning to his family when cultivation advances into the either wholly or in part its effect is observed in the retiring of the game in their numbers and in an altera... | 50 |
they resort and there wait their coming or place yourself behind the wall which the field is sure to be and by a stone out of it you have a glorious but this must be within range of their feeding quarters for they are so exquisitely acute of hearing and sight that a move however slight you where there are but very few ... | 50 |
england we speak of mr the well known of the to whom we are indebted for the letter on that interesting inquiry having had considerable experience in breeding from some of the first in england ireland and scotland amongst them those of the late duke of captain mr and other celebrated and having also spent many years ... | 50 |
cake and r v shooting rise the mom hath kept for thee her pearls and take them while the light hangs on the dew locks of the night see throws her fair fresh tinted colours through the air come forth come forth tis very sin and to keep in there s joy and gladness in the skies from thy couch arise our life is short our m... | 50 |
behind him because the moment the dog stands he can then by throwing the right leg over the horse s neck and leave the man in possession of the instead of being with a led horse which frequently the possibility of his on to mark a or follow up a towering bird moreover it requires no to discover that two horses make mor... | 50 |
settling themselves to is the most important one to the the male bird is the chief officer both in the and of the young until they can faintly fly when he loses all the parental solicitude for which both male and female are so remarkable but the hen still watches over them them to their scratching grounds their food fo... | 50 |
rarely however that the season is so forward as to give us so early sufficiently advanced towards maturity indeed the sport may be postponed with great convenience as no cover shooting is pleasant or very profitable till the trees are at least partly stripped of their foliage in beating covers for if you use dogs at al... | 50 |
our knowing or probably caring how the devil it got there indeed the most in sporting reading would have found it difficult to on the habits pursuit and process of sporting after the till the publication of mr s and is silent about it daniel spoke of it as somebody had spoken to him and colonel shooting says he shot a ... | 50 |
to the million few will think the play worth the candle as the french saw has it the bird being moreover to the following our experience of its pretty much like the s horse veiy hard to catch and not worth the trouble when overtaken change their about october when they put on a double suit of feathers in anticipation ... | 50 |
he heard something fall and flutter among the it could not nevertheless be found and after losing his time and his patience he was just back soon enough not to lose his dinner to boot now this bird was of no ordinary value for it would have entitled him to one half of a of the whole of which would otherwise go to the ... | 50 |
of the ocean holding their course to the same distant land but this forced association does not after their and finding in their adopted country that they can live at all the appetite of love is their only tie and even this is momentary so soon as passion has spent its force the male his mate to the labour of raising t... | 50 |
lower part of the breast into pale grey and pure white outer white deep brown black very powerful the first sharp the und with their outer web and becoming brown or black at their the mid tail feathers orange with white tips and a black bar crossing at about an inch from the end and then a one towards the base characte... | 50 |
case of a likely to fly out of bounds which within forty eight may perhaps be himself in an irish this gentleman says no one who goes out to shoot should use less than no or shot the instinct of animals is in almost every case superior to the reason of man for the one is the other constantly at fault it is singular to ... | 50 |
generations they would soon become extinct the hare knows the female by the scent its organs of every sense being exquisitely sensitive when the female is about eleven months old she begins to breed and is believed to bring forth young several times in the course of the year the k hare shooting term is the same as in t... | 50 |
of hearing not stir if they suspect an enemy is nigh as their sense of smelling is even more acute than that of hearing never attempt to approach them v th your back to the the moment you have fired at a rabbit with a single gun if he be not quite dead run up to him for are exceedingly of life and severely wounded will... | 50 |
high and straight having chosen a dog according to these suggestions take him into the field and observe how he mark if he be a gallant high going within himself his head well up and to the wind as endeavouring to catch a flying scent making his casts turns and offers neither hanging on the haunt nor for a ground scent... | 50 |
wild this sport is not a pursuit hut an you must wait for wild fowl and not follow them the true season for shooting is when the snow lies on the ground then they resort to the fields and may he turned to good account should it he and you cannot approach them even under cover of a hedge in consequence of the noise made... | 50 |
of innumerable birds of this species that they are found in the regions of island in south wales and they are said to breed on some parts of the and shores of the generally we may say that the species has greatly of late years both pigeon shooting with the increase of population and the increasing persecution to which ... | 50 |
mouth it so happened that on a market day we were walking with the frenchman and his dog on the road leading to i it was summer weather and the dust lay very thick we had walked about a mile out and were returning into the town when suddenly he stopped and said at the point where we tamed to come back i dropped a among... | 50 |
second time and when you have marked down a cock to remember bow veiy apt he is to run instead of rising from the spot in which you may have seen him drop if a cock flies away he and continues to rise wild you may go safely beyond where he may have last dropped and then back again to beat for him having some one to mak... | 50 |
tongue the bill is by numerous veins the eye is large and so constructed as to catch the faintest rays of light a necessity since it is a wanderer the of is singularly rapid and their feeding quite out of proportion with other birds they thrust their bills endowed as we have seen with a wonderful delicacy of feeling i... | 50 |
sun and the frost alike their enemies shall have dried up the springs and till the ground shall have become too arid for their support till the insects are upon the wing or till the frost shall have the earth into one solid mass impenetrable to their bills when this occurs these cold loving birds must either wing their... | 50 |
direction but then i use s no as the flight of is so rapid and at the same time often so if the mean to get he must fire the first barrel extremely quick unless indeed the birds lie unusually well but at a single bird he can if he please afford himself a little more time unless it rises wild the critical crisis at whic... | 50 |
august and not then very good eating about november it is as full and as the can desire it is not a shy bird except where it together when it becomes much more wary and timid there are often varieties of this as well as all the other species of the tribes there is the red in a small flock of these was seen in speaks o... | 50 |
heads and bills from the ground as children hide their in the mother s lap when they think to conceal themselves it is veiy whether they breed in these islands even in solitary instances for all attempts to find the nest have hitherto failed the bird has been shot during summer and this is the only for the supposition ... | 50 |
out of the window left open on account of the heat reached his master s home with his prize when from in the pocket everything but the shilling was enabled to be returned to the owner and the singular circumstance this anecdote very strongly that before related of the frenchman s for story we do not personally the s fe... | 50 |
year in which it is a bird its attitudes are natural and graceful its dark purple and grey beautifully with white and light shades its crest its outstretched neck the bright hides and deep yellow bill the two broad of lengthened black feathers that relieve the pure white of the breast at the centre and its size which w... | 50 |
dog therefore one may be able to kill several of these birds in the which they frequent the afternoon is the best time as prefer the during the morning this is the whose eggs are so popular the knot this is the second bird in rank of the species or the most beautiful and abundant the of which along our is the or or of... | 50 |
but we wish it were in more plenty it extends north to and it has however almost disappeared in several where it was frequent in the south of scotland ten years ago it was ful it is now very rare in the same the is only uttered during the season of we give s description of the and characters over the eyes behind the a... | 50 |
purple hue and crossed by bars of pale orange coloured brown the and tail are white and the rest of the tail black of a rich hue the extremity of the tail slightly into forks when shut the of the wings are a deep black on the outer and edges to white inside the shafts of all the bill is orange into black brown at the e... | 50 |
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