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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 18, October 31, 1840 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: March 6, 2017 [EBook #54290] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL *** - - - - -Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from -images generously made available by JSTOR www.jstor.org) - - - - - - - - - - - THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL. - - NUMBER 18. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1840. VOLUME I. - -[Illustration: WOODLANDS, COUNTY OF DUBLIN] - -Woodlands, the seat of one of our good resident landlords, Colonel -White, considered in connection with its beautiful demesne, may justly -rank as the finest aristocratic residence in the immediate vicinity of -our metropolis. As an architectural composition, indeed, the house, -or castle, as it is called, will not bear a comparison, either for -its classical correctness of details, or its general picturesqueness -of outline, with the Castle of Clontarf--the architectural gem of our -vicinity; but its proportions are on a grander scale, and its general -effect accordingly more imposing, while its demesne scenery, in its -natural beauties, the richness of its plantations, and other artificial -improvements, is without a rival in our metropolitan county, and -indeed is characterised by some features of such exquisite beauty as -are very rarely found in park scenery any where, and which are nowhere -to be surpassed. Well might the Prince Pückler Muskau, who despite of -his strange name has undoubtedly a true taste for the beautiful and -picturesque, describe the entrance to this demesne as “indeed the most -delightful in its kind that can be imagined.” “Scenery,” he continues, -“by nature most beautiful, is improved by art to the highest degree of -its capability, and, without destroying its free and wild character, a -variety and richness of vegetation is produced which enchants the eye. -Gay shrubs and wild flowers, the softest turf and giant trees, festooned -with creeping plants, fill the narrow glen through which the path -winds, by the side of the clear dancing brook, which, falling in little -cataracts, flows on, sometimes hidden in the thicket, sometimes resting -like liquid silver in an emerald cup, or rushing under overhanging arches -of rock, which nature seems to have hung there as triumphal gates for -the beneficent Naïad of the valley to pass through.” - -This description may appear somewhat enthusiastic, but we can truly state -as our own opinion, formed on a recent visit to Woodlands, that it is -by no means overdrawn, but, on the contrary, that it would be equally -difficult, if not impossible, either for the pencil or the pen to convey -an adequate idea of the peculiar beauties of this little tract of fairy -land. - -Singularly beautiful, however, as this sylvan glen unquestionably is, it -is only one of the many features for which Woodlands is pre-eminently -distinguished. Its finely undulating surface--its sheets of water, though -artificially formed--its noble forest timber--but above all, its woodland -walks, commanding vistas of the exquisite valley of the Liffey, with the -more remote scenery bounded by the Dublin and Wicklow mountains--all are -equally striking, and present a combination of varied and impressive -features but rarely found within the bounds of even a princely demesne. - -Though Woodlands derives very many of its attractions from modern -improvements, its chief artificial features are of no recent creation, -and are such as it would require a century or two to bring to their -present perfection. Woodlands is emphatically an old place, and is -said to have been granted by King John to Sir Geoffry Lutterel, an -Anglo-Norman knight who accompanied him into Ireland, and in possession -of whose descendants it remained, and was their residence from the close -of the fifteenth till the commencement of the present century, when it -was sold to Mr Luke White by the last Earl of Carhampton. Up to this -period it was known by the name of Lutterelstown, a name which, for -various reasons, the family into whose possession it has passed have -wisely changed. - -The principal parts of the mansion were rebuilt about fifty years back. -But a portion of the original castle still remains, and an apartment in -it bears the name of King John’s chamber. It has also received additional -extension from its present proprietor, who is now making further -additions to the structure. - -Woodlands is situated on the north bank of the Liffey, about five miles -from Dublin. - - P. - - - - -PEGGY THE PISHOGUE. - - -“And now, Mickey Brennan, it’s not but I have a grate regard for you, -for troth you’re a dacint boy, and a dacint father and mother’s child; -but you see, avick, the short and the long of it is, that you needn’t be -looking after my little girl any more.” - -Such was the conclusion of a long and interesting harangue pronounced -by old Brian Moran of Lagh-buoy, for the purpose of persuading his -daughter’s sweetheart to waive his pretensions--a piece of diplomacy -never very easy to effect, but doubly difficult when the couple so -unceremoniously separated have laboured under the delusion that they were -born for each other, as was the ease in the affair of which our story -tells; and certainly, whatever Mr Michael Brennan’s other merits may have -been, he was very far from exhibiting himself as a pattern of patience on -the occasion. - -“Why, thin, Brian Moran!” he outrageously exclaimed, “in the name of -all that’s out of the way, will you give me one reason, good, bad, or -indifferent, and I’ll be satisfied?” - -“Och, you unfortunate gossoon, don’t be afther axing me,” responded Brian -dolefully. - -“Ah, thin, why wouldn’t I?” replied the rejected lover. “Aren’t we -playing together since she could walk--wasn’t she the light of my eyes -and the pulse of my heart these six long years--and when did one of -ye ever either say or sign that I was to give over until this blessed -minute?--tell me that.” - -“Widdy Eelish!” groaned the closely interrogated parent; “’tis true -enough for you. Botheration to Peggy, I wish she tould you herself. I -knew how it ’ud be; an’ sure small blame to you; an’ it’ll kill Meny out -an’ out.” - -“Is it that I amn’t rich enough?” he asked impetuously. - -“No, avich machree, it isn’t; but, sure, can’t you wait an’ ax Peggy.” - -“Is it because there’s any thing against me?” continued he, without -heeding this reference to the mother of his fair one--“Is it because -there’s any thing against me, I say, now or evermore, in the shape of -warrant, or summons, or bad word, or any thing of the kind?” - -“Och, _forrear, forrear_!” answered poor Brian, “but can’t you ax Peggy!” -and he clasped his hands again and again with bitterness, for the young -man’s interest had been, from long and constant habit, so interwoven -in his mind with those of his darling Meny, that he was utterly unable -to check the burst of agony which the question had excited. The old -man’s evident grief and evasion of the question were not lost upon his -companion. - -“I’m belied--I know I am--I have it all now,” shouted he, utterly losing -all command of himself. “Come, Brian Moran, this is no child’s play--tell -me at once who dared to spake one word against me, an’ if I don’t drive -the lie down his throat, be it man, woman, or child, I’m willing to lose -her and every thing else I care for!” - -“No, then,” answered Brian, “the never a one said a word against you--you -never left it in their power, avich; an’ that’s what’s breaking my heart. -Millia murther, it’s all Peggy’s own doings.” - -“What!” he replied--“I’ll be bound Peggy had a bad dhrame about the -match. Arrah, out with it, an’ let us hear what Peggy the Pishogue has to -say for herself--out with it, man; I’m asthray for something to laugh at.” - -“Oh, whisht, whisht--don’t talk that way of Peggy any how,” exclaimed -Brian, offended by this imputation on the unerring wisdom of his -helpmate. “Whatever she says, doesn’t it come to pass? Didn’t it rain -on Saturday last, fine as the day looked? Didn’t Tim Higgins’s cow die? -Wasn’t Judy Carney married to Tom Knox afther all? Ay, an’ as sure as -your name is Mickey Brennan, what she says will come true of yourself -too. _Forrear, forrear!_ that the like should befall one of your dacint -kin!” - -“Why, what’s going to happen me?” inquired he, his voice trembling a -little in spite of all his assumed carelessness: for contemptuously as he -had alluded to the wisdom of his intended mother-in-law, it stood in too -high repute not to create in him some dismay at the probability of his -figuring unfavourably in any of her prognostications. - -“Don’t ax me, don’t ax me,” was the sorrowing answer; “but take your -haste out of the stable at once, and go straight to Father Coffey; and -who knows but he might put you on some way to escape the bad luck that’s -afore you.” - -“Psha! fudge! ’pon my sowl it’s a shame for you, Brian Moran.” - -“Divil a word of lie in it,” insisted Brian; “Peggy found it all out last -night; an’ troth it’s troubling her as much as if you were her own flesh -and blood. More betoken, haven’t you a mole there under your ear?” - -“Well, and what if I have?” rejoined he peevishly, but alarmed all the -while by the undisguised pity which his future lot seemed to call forth. -“What if I have?--hadn’t many a man the same afore me?” - -“No doubt, Mickey, agra, and the same bad luck came to them too,” replied -Brian. “Och, you unfortunate ignorant crathur, sure you wouldn’t have me -marry my poor little girl to a man that’s sooner or later to end his days -on the gallows!” - -“The gallows!” he slowly exclaimed. “Holy Virgin! is that what’s to -become of me after all?” He tried to utter a laugh of derision and -defiance, but it would not do; such a vaticination from such a quarter -was no laughing matter. So yielding at last to the terror which he had -so vainly affected to combat, he buried his face in his hands, and threw -himself violently on the ground; while Brian, scarcely less moved by the -revelation he had made on the faith of his wife’s far-famed sagacity, -seated himself compassionately beside him to administer what consolation -he could. - -Mickey Brennan, in the parlance of our country, was a snug gossoon, -well to do in the world, had a nice bit of land, a comfortable house, -good crops, a pig or two, a cow or two, a sheep or two, a handsome -good-humoured face, a good character; and, what made him more -marriageable than all the rest, he had the aforementioned goods all to -himself, for his father and mother were dead, and his last sister had -got married at Shrove-tide. With all these combined advantages he might -have selected any girl in the parish; but his choice was made long years -before: it was Meny Moran or nobody--a choice in which Meny Moran herself -perfectly concurred, and which her father, good, easy, soft-hearted -Brian, never thought of disputing, although he was able to give her a -fortune probably amounting to double what her suitor was worth. But was -the fair one’s mother ever satisfied when such a disparity existed? -Careful creatures! pound for pound is the maternal maxim in all ages and -countries, and to give Peggy Moran her due, she was as much influenced by -it as her betters, and murmured loud and long at the acquiescence of her -husband in such a sacrifice. She murmured in vain, however: much as Brian -deferred to her judgment and advice in all other matters, his love for -his fond and pretty Meny armed him with resolution in this. When she wept -at her mother’s insinuations, he always found a word of comfort for her; -and if words wouldn’t do, he managed to bring Mickey and her together, -and left them to settle the matter after their own way--a method which -seldom failed of success. But Peggy was not to be baulked of her will. -What! she whose mere word could make or break any match for five miles -round, to be forbidden all interference in her own daughter’s: it was not -to be borne. So at last she applied herself in downright earnest to the -task. She dreamed at the match, tossed cups at it, saw signs at it: in -fine, called her whole armoury of necromancy into requisition, and was -rewarded at last by the discovery that the too highly-favoured swain was -inevitably destined to end his days on the gallows--a discovery which, as -has been already seen, fulfilled her most sanguine wishes. - -Whatever may be the opinion of other and wiser people on the subject, in -the parish of Ballycoursey or its vicinity it was rather an ugly joke to -be thus devoted to the infernal gods by a prophetess of such unerring -sagacity as Peggy Moran, or, as she was sometimes styled with reference -to her skill in all supernatural matters, Peggy the Pishogue--that -cognomen implying an acquaintance with more things in heaven and earth -than are dreamt of in philosophy; and most unquestionably it was no -misnomer: the priest himself was not more deeply read in his breviary -than was she in all the signs and omens whereby the affairs of this -moving world are shadowed and foretokened--nothing was too great or -too small for her all-piercing ken--in every form of augury she was -omniscient, from cup-tossing up to necromancy--in vain the mystic -dregs of the tea-cup assumed shapes that would have puzzled Doctor -Wall himself: with her first glance she detected at once the true -meaning of the hieroglyphic symbol, and therefrom dealt out deaths, -births, and marriages, with the infallibility of a newspaper--in vain -Destiny, unwilling to be unrolled, shrouded itself in some dream that -would have bothered King Solomon. Peggy no sooner heard it than it was -unravelled--there was not a ghost in the country with whose haunts -and habits she was not as well acquainted as if she was one of the -fraternity--not a fairy could put his nose out without being detected by -her--the value of property was increased tenfold all round the country by -the skill with which she wielded her charms and spells for the discovery -of all manner of theft. But I must stop; for were I to recount but half -her powers, the eulogium would require a _Penny Journal_ for itself, and -still leave matter for a supplement. It would be a melancholy instance -indeed of Irish ingratitude if for all these superhuman exertions she -was not rewarded by universal confidence. To the credit of the parish -be it said that no such stigma was attached to it: nothing could equal -the estimation in which all her words and actions were held by her -neighbours--nothing but the estimation in which they were held in her own -household by her husband and daughter. - -Such being the gifted personage who had foretold the coming disasters of -Mickey Brennan, it is not to be wondered at that the matter created a -sensation, particularly as sundry old hags to whom she had imparted her -discovery were requested to hush it up for the poor gossoon’s sake. His -friends sorrowed over him as a gone man, for not the most sceptical among -them ventured to hazard even a doubt of Peggy’s veracity--in fact, they -viewed the whole as a matter requiring consolation and sympathy rather -than as a scrutiny into the sources of her information, which by common -consent were viewed as indubitable, while some, more compassionate than -the rest, went so far as to declare “that since the thing could not be -avoided, and Mickey, poor fellow, must be hanged, they hoped it might be -for something dacint, not robbing, or coining, or the like.” - -The hardest task of all is to describe the feelings of poor Brennan -himself on the occasion; for much as he had affected to disparage the -sybilline revelations of the wierd woman of Ballycoursey, there was not -one in the neighbourhood who was more disposed to yield them unlimited -credence in any case but his own; and even in his own case he was not -long enabled to struggle against conviction. Let people prate as they -may about education and its effects, it will require a period of more -generations than one to root the love of the marvellous out of the hearts -of our countrymen; and until that be effected, every village in the -land will have its wise woman, and with nine-tenths of her neighbours -what she says will be regarded as gospel. Some people of course will -laugh to scorn such an assertion, and more will very respectfully beg -leave to doubt it, but still it is true; and in the more retired inland -villages circumstances are every day occurring far more extravagant than -anything detailed in this story, as is very well known to all who are -much conversant with such places. But to return to the doomed man:--How -could he be expected to bear up against this terrible denunciation, when -all the consolation he could receive from his nearest and dearest was -that “it was a good man’s death?” Death! poor fellow, he had suffered -the pains of a thousand deaths already, in living without the hope of -ever being the husband of his Meny. Death, instant and immediate, would -have been a relief to him; and it was not long until, by his anxiety to -obtain that relief, he afforded an opportunity to Peggy of displaying -her own reliance on the correctness of her prognostications. Goaded into -madness by his present sufferings and his fears for the future, he made -an attempt upon his life by plunging into an adjacent lake when no one, -as he thought, was near to interrupt his intentions. It was not so, -however--a shepherd had observed him, but at such a distance that before -help could be obtained to rescue him he was to all appearance lifeless. -The news flew like wildfire: he was dead, stone dead, they said--had lain -in the water ten minutes, half an hour, half the day, since last night; -but in one point they all concurred--dead he was; dead as St Dominick. - -“Troth he’s not,” was Peggy’s cool rejoinder. “Be quiet, and I’ll engage -he’ll come to. _Nabocklish_, he that’s born to be hanged will never be -drowned. Wait a while an’ hould your tongues. _Nabocklish_, I tell you -he’ll live to spoil a market yet, an’ more’s the pity.” - -People shook their heads, and almost began to think their wise woman had -made a mistake, and read hemp instead of water. It was no such thing, -however: slowly and beyond all hopes, Brennan recovered the effects of -his rash attempt, thereby fulfilling so much of his declared destiny, -and raising the reputation of Mrs Moran to a point that she never had -attained before. That very week she discovered no less than six cases -of stolen goods, twice detected the good people taking unauthorised -liberties with their neighbours’ churns, and spaed a score of fortunes, -at the very least; and he, poor fellow, satisfied at last that Fortune -was not to be bilked so easily, resigned himself to his fate like a man, -and began to look about him in earnest for some opportunity of gracing -the gallows without disgracing his people. - -And Meny--poor heart-stricken Meny--loving as none but the true and -simple-minded can love, the extent of her grief was such as the true and -simple-minded only can know; and yet there was worse in store for her. -Shortly after this consummation of her mother’s fame, a whisper began to -creep through the village--a whisper of dire import, portending death -and disaster on some luckless wight unknown--“Peggy Moran has something -on her mind.” What could it be? Silent and mysterious she shook her head -when any one ventured to question her--the pipe was never out of her -jaw unless when she slept or sat down to her meals--she became as cross -as a cat, which to do her justice was not her wont, and eschewed all -sorts of conversation, which most assuredly was not her wont either. The -interest and curiosity of her neighbours was raised to a most agonising -pitch--every one trembled lest the result should be some terrible -revelation affecting himself or herself, as the case might be: it was the -burden of the first question asked in the morning, the last at night. -Every word she uttered during the day was matter of speculation to an -hundred anxious inquirers; and there was every danger of the good people -of Ballycoursey going absolutely mad with fright if they were kept any -longer in the dark on the subject. - -At length there was a discovery; but, as is usually the case in all -scrutinies into forbidden matters, it was at the cost of the too-daring -investigator. Peggy and Brian were sitting one night before the fire, -preparing for their retirement, when a notion seized the latter to probe -the sorrows of his helpmate. - -“’Deed it well becomes you to ax,” quoth the wierd woman in answer to his -many and urgent inquiries; “for Brian, achorra machree, my poor ould man, -there’s no use in hiding it--it’s all about yourself.” - -“No, then!” exclaimed the surprised interrogator; “the Lord betune us an’ -harm, is it?” - -“’Deed yes, Brian,” responded the sybil with a melancholy tone, out of -the cloud of smoke in which she had sought to hide her troubles. “I’m -thinking these last few days you’re not yourself at all at all.” - -“Tare an ounties! maybe I’m not,” responded he of the doubtful identity. - -“Do you feel nothing on your heart, Brian achree?” - -“I do; sure enough I do,” gasped poor Brian, ready to believe anything of -himself. - -“Something like a _plurrisy_, isn’t it?” inquired the mourner. - -“Ay, sure enough, like a plurrisy for all the world, Lord betune us an’ -harm!” - -“An’ you do be very cold, I’ll engage, these nights, Brian?” continued -she. - -“Widdy Eelish! I’m as could as ice this minute,” answered Brian, and his -teeth began to chatter as if he was up to his neck in a mill-pond. - -“An’ your appetite is gone entirely, achra?” continued his tormentor. - -“Sorra a word o’ lie in it,” answered the newly discovered invalid, -forgetful however that he had just finished discussing a skib of potatoes -and a mug of milk for his supper. - -“And the cat, the crathur, looked at you this very night after licking -her paw.” - -“I’ll engage she did. Bad luck to her,” responded Brian, “I wouldn’t put -it beyant her.” - -“Let me feel your pulse, asthore,” said Peggy in conclusion; and Brian -submitted his trembling wrist to her inspection, anxiously peering into -her face all the while to read his doom therein. A long and deep sigh -broke from her lips, along with a most voluminous puff of smoke, as she -let the limb drop from her hold, and commenced rocking herself to and -fro, uttering a low and peculiar species of moan, which to her terrified -patient sounded as a death summons. - -“Murther-an’-ages, Peggy, sure it’s not going to die I am!” exclaimed -Brian. - -“Och, widdy! widdy!” roared the afflicted spouse, now giving full vent -to her anguish, “it’s little I thought, Brian asthore machree, when I -married you in your beauty and your prime, that I’d ever live to cry -the keen over you--ochone, ochone! ’tis you was the good ould man in -airnest--och! och!” - -“Arrah, Peggy!” interposed the object of her rather premature -lamentations. - -“Oh, don’t talk to me--don’t talk to me. I’ll never hould up my head -again, so I won’t!” continued the widow that was to be, in a tone that -quickly brought all the house about her, and finally all the neighbours. -Great was the uproar that ensued, and noisy the explanations, which, -however, afforded no small relief to the minds of all persons not -immediately concerned in the welfare of the doomed Brian. Peggy was -inconsolable at the prospect of such a bereavement. Meny clung in despair -to the poor tottering old man, her grief too deep for lamentation, -while he hobbled over his prayers as fast and as correctly as his utter -dismay would permit him. Next morning he was unable to rise, refused -all nourishment, and called vehemently for the priest. Every hour he -became worse; he was out of one faint into another; announced symptoms of -every complaint that ever vexed mankind, and declared himself affected -by a pain in every member, from his toe to his cranium. No wonder it -was a case to puzzle the doctor. The man of science could make nothing -of it--swore it was the oddest complication of diseases that ever he -had heard of--and strongly recommended that the patient be tossed in a -blanket, and his wife treated to a taste of the horse-pond. Father Coffey -was equally nonplussed. - -“What ails you, Brian?” - -“An all-overness of some kind or other, your reverence,” groaned the -sufferer in reply, and the priest had to own himself a bothered man. -Nothing would induce him to rise--“where’s the use in a man’s gettin’ up, -an’ he goin’ to die?” was his answer to those who endeavoured to rouse -him--“isn’t it a dale dacinter to die in bed like a Christian?” - -“God’s good!--maybe you won’t die this time, Brian.” - -“Arrah, don’t be talking--doesn’t Peggy know best?” And with this -undeniable assertion he closed all his arguments, receiving consolation -from none, not even his heart-broken Meny. Despite of all his entreaties -to be let die in peace, the doctor, who guessed how matters stood, was -determined to try the effects of a blister, and accordingly applied one -of more than ordinary strength, stoutly affirming that it would have the -effect of the patient being up and walking on the morrow. A good many -people had gathered into his cabin to witness the cure, as they always -do when their presence could be best dispensed with; and to these Peggy, -with tears and moans, was declaring her despair in all remedies whatever, -and her firm conviction that a widow she’d be before Sunday, when Brian, -roused a little by the uneasy stimulant from the lethargy into which they -all believed him to be sunk, faintly expressed his wish to be heard. - -“Peggy, agra,” said he, “there’s no denyin’ but you’re a wonderful woman -entirely; an’ since I’m goin’, it would be a grate consolation to me if -you’d tell us all now you found out the sickness was on me afore I knew -it myself. It’s just curiosity, agra--I wouldn’t like to die, you see, -without knowin’ for why an’ for what--it ’ud have a foolish look if any -body axed me what I died of, an’ me not able to tell them.” - -Peggy declared her willingness to do him this last favour, and, -interrupted by an occasional sob, thus proceeded:-- - -“It was Thursday night week--troth I’ll never forget that night, Brian -asthore, if I live to be as ould as Noah--an’ it was just after my first -sleep that I fell draiming. I thought I went down to Dan Keefe’s to buy -a taste ov mate, for ye all know he killed a _bullsheen_ that day for -the market ov Moneen; an’ I thought when I went into his house, what did -I see hangin’ up but an ugly _lane_ carcase, an’ not a bit too fresh -neither, an’ a strange man dividin’ it with a hatchet; an’ says he to me -with a mighty grum look, - -“‘Well, honest woman, what do you want?--is it to buy bullsheen?’ - -“‘Yes,’ says I, ‘but not the likes of that--it’s not what we’re used to.’ - -“‘Divil may care,’ says he; ‘I’ll make bould to cut out a rib for you.’ - -“‘Oh, don’t if you plase,’ says I, puttin’ out my hand to stop him; an’ -with that what does he do but he lifts the hatchet an’ makes a blow at my -hand, an’ cuts the weddin’ ring in two on my finger?” - -“Dth! dth! dth!” was ejaculated on all sides by her wondering auditory, -for the application of the dream to Brian was conclusive, according to -the popular method of explaining such matters. They looked round to -see how he sustained the brunt of such a fatal revelation. There he -was sitting bolt upright in the bed, notwithstanding his unpleasant -incumbrance, his mouth and eyes wide open. - -“Why, thin, blur-an’-ages, Peggy Moran,” he slowly exclaimed, when he and -they had recovered a little from their surprise, “do you mane to tell me -that’s all that ailed me?” - -Peggy and her coterie started back as he uttered this extraordinary -inquiry, there being something in his look that portended his intention -to leap out of bed, and probably display his indignation a little too -forcibly, for, quiet as he was, his temper wasn’t proof against a -blister; but his bodily strength failed him in the attempt, and, roaring -with pain, he resumed his recumbent position. But Peggy’s empire was -over--the blister had done its business, and in a few days he was able -to stump about as usual, threatening to inflict all sorts of punishments -upon any one who dared to laugh at him. A laugh is a thing, however, not -easy to be controlled, and finally poor Brian’s excellent temper was -soured to such a degree by the ridicule which he encountered, that he -determined to seek a reconciliation with young Brennan, pitch the decrees -of fate to Old Nick, and give Father Coffey a job with the young couple. - -To this resolution we are happy to say he adhered: still happier are we -to say, that among the county records we have not yet met the name of -his son-in-law, and that unless good behaviour and industry be declared -crimes worthy of bringing their perpetrator to the gallows, there is very -little chance indeed of Mickey Brennan fulfilling the prophecy of Peggy -the Pishogue. - - A. M’C. - - - - -A SHORT CHAPTER ON BUSTLES. - - -Bustles!--what are bustles? Ay, reader, fair reader, you may well ask -that question. But some of your sex at least know the meaning of the -word, and the use of the article it designates, sufficiently well, -though, thank heaven! there are many thousands of my countrywomen who are -as yet ignorant of both, and indeed to whom such knowledge would be quite -useless. Would that I were in equally innocent ignorance! Not, reader, -that I am of the feminine gender, and use the article in question; but my -knowledge of its mysterious uses, and the various materials of which it -is composed, has been the ruin of me. I will have inscribed on my tomb, -“Here lies a man who was killed by a bustle!” - -But before I detail the circumstances of my unhappy fate, it will perhaps -be proper to give a description of the article itself which has been the -cause of my undoing. Well, then, a bustle is… - -But the editor will perhaps object to this description as being too -distinct and graphic. If so, then here goes for another less laboured and -more characteristically mysterious. - -A bustle is an article used by ladies to take from their form the -character of the Venus of the Greeks, and impart to it that of the Venus -of the Hottentots! - -That ladies should have a taste so singular, may appear incredible; but -there is no accounting for tastes, and I know to my cost that the fact is -indisputable. - -I made the discovery a few years since, and up to that time I had always -borne the character of a sage, sedate, and promising young man--one -likely to get on in the world by my exertions, and therefore sure to be -helped by my friends. I was even, I flatter myself, a favourite with the -fair sex too; and justly so, for I was their most ardent admirer; and -there was one most lovely creature among them whom I had fondly hoped -to have made my own. But, alas! how vain and visionary are our hopes of -human happiness: such hopes with me have fled for ever! As I said before, -I am a ruined man, and all in consequence of ladies’ bustles. - -In an unlucky hour I was in a ball-room, seated at a little distance -from my fair one--my eyes watching her every air and look, my ears -catching every sound of her sweet voice--when I heard her complain to a -female friend, in tones of the softest whispering music, that she was -oppressed with the heat of the place. “My dear,” her friend replied, -“it must be the effect of your bustle. What do you stuff it with?” -“Hair--horse-hair,” was the reply. “Hair!--mercy on us!” says her friend, -“it is no wonder you are oppressed--that’s a _hot-and-hot_ material -truly. Why, you should do as I do--you do not see me fainting; and the -reason is, that I stuff my bustle with hay--new hay!” - -I heard no more, for the ladies, supposing from my eyes that I was a -listener, changed the topic of conversation, though indeed it was not -necessary, for at the time I had not the slightest notion of what they -meant. Time, however, passed on most favourably to my wishes--another -month, and I should have called my Catherine my own. She was on a visit -to my sister, and I had every opportunity to make myself agreeable. We -sang together, we talked together, and we danced together. All this would -have been very well, but unfortunately we also walked together. It was -on the last time we ever did so that the circumstance occurred which I -have now to relate, and which gave the first death-blow to my hopes of -happiness. We were crossing Carlisle-bridge, her dear arm linked in mine, -when we chanced to meet a female friend; and wishing to have a little -chat with her without incommoding the passengers, we got to the edge of -the flag-way, near which at the time there was standing an old white -horse, totally blind. He was a quiet-looking animal, and none of us could -have supposed from his physiognomy that he had any savage propensity in -his nature. But imagine my astonishment and horror when I suddenly heard -my charmer give a scream that pierced me to the very heart!--and when I -perceived that this atrocious old blind brute, having slowly and slyly -swayed his head round, caught the--how shall I describe it?--caught my -Catherine--really I can’t say how--but he caught her; and before I could -extricate her from his jaws, he made a reef in her garments such as lady -never suffered. Silk gown, petticoat, bustle--everything, in fact, gave -way, and left an opening--a chasm--an exposure, that may perhaps be -imagined, but cannot be described.[1] - -As rapidly as I could, of course, I got my fair one into a jarvy, and -hurried home, the truth gradually opening in my mind as to the cause -of the disaster--it was, that the blind horse, hungry brute, had been -attracted by the smell of my Catherine’s bustle, made of hay--new hay! - -Catherine was never the same to me afterwards--she took the most -invincible dislike to walk with me, or rather, perhaps, to be seen in -the streets with me. But matters were not yet come to the worst, and I -had indulged in hopes that she would yet be mine. I had however taken a -deep aversion to bustles, and even determined to wage war upon them to -the best of my ability. In this spirit, a few days after, I determined to -wreak my vengeance on my sister’s bustle, for I found by this time that -she too was emulous of being a Hottentot beauty. Accordingly, having to -accompany her and my intended wife to a ball, I stole into my sister’s -room in the course of the evening before she went into it to dress, -and pouncing upon her hated bustle, which lay on her toilet table, I -inflicted a cut on it with my penknife, and retired. But what a mistake -did I make! Alas, it was not my sister’s bustle, but my Catherine’s! -However, we went to the ball, and for a time all went smoothly on. I -took out my Catherine as a partner in the dance; but imagine my horror -when I perceived her gradually becoming thinner and thinner--losing her -_enbonpoint_--as she danced; and, worse than that, that every movement -which she described in the figure--the ladies’ chain, the chassee--was -accurately marked--recorded--on the chalked floor with--bran! Oh dear! -reader, pity me: was ever man so unfortunate? This sealed my doom. She -would never speak to me, or even look at me afterwards. - -But this was not all. My character with the sex--ay, with both sexes--was -also destroyed. I who had been heretofore, as I said, considered as an -example of prudence and discretion for a young man, was now set down as -a thoughtless, devil-may-care wag, never to do well: the men treated me -coldly, and the women turned their backs upon me; and so thus in reality -they made me what they had supposed I was. It was indeed no wonder, for -I could never after see a lady with a bustle but I felt an irresistible -inclination to laughter, and this too even on occasions when I should -have kept a grave countenance. If I met a couple of country or other -friends in the street, and inquired after their family--the cause, -perhaps, of the mourning in which they were attired--while they were -telling me of the death of some father, sister, or other relative, I to -their astonishment would take to laughing, and if there was a horse near -us, give the lady a drag away to another situation. And if then I were -asked the meaning of this ill-timed mirth, and this singular movement, -what could I say? Why, sometimes I made the matter worse by replying, -“Dear madam, it is only to save your bustle from the horse!” - -Stung at length by my misfortunes and the hopelessness of my situation, I -became utterly reckless, and only thought of carrying out my revenge on -the bustles in every way in my power; and this I must say with some pride -I did for a while with good effect. I got a number of the hated articles -manufactured for myself, but not, reader, to wear, as you shall hear. Oh! -no; but whenever I received an invitation to a party--which indeed had -latterly been seldom sent me--I took one of these articles in my pocket, -and, watching a favourable opportunity when all were engaged in the mazy -figure of the dance, let it secretly fall amongst them. The result may be -imagined--ay, reader, imagine it, for I cannot describe it with effect. -First, the half-suppressed but simultaneous scream of all the ladies as -it was held up for a claimant; next, the equally simultaneous movement of -the ladies’ hands, all quickly disengaged from those of their partners, -and not raised up in wonder, but carried down to their--bustles! Never -was movement in the dance executed with such precision; and I should be -immortalised as the inventor of an attitude so expressive of sentiment -and of _feeling_. - -Alas! this is the only consolation now afforded me in my afflictions: -I invented a new attitude--a new movement in the quadrille: let others -see that it be not forgotten. I am now a banished man from all refined -society: no lady will appear, where that odious Mr Bustle, as they call -me, might possibly be; and so no one will admit me inside their doors. I -have nothing left me, therefore, but to live out my solitary life, and -vent my execration of bustles in the only place now left me--the columns -of the Irish Penny Journal. - -[Illustration] - -[1] A fact. - - - - -THE COMMON OTTER. - - -The otter varies in size, some adult specimens measuring no more than -thirty-six inches in length, tail inclusive, while others, again, are to -be found from four and a half to five feet long. The head of the otter is -broad and flat; its muzzle is broad, rounded, and blunt; its eyes small -and of a semi-circular form; neck extremely thick, nearly as thick as the -body; body long, rounded, and very flexible; legs short and muscular; -feet furnished with five sharp-clawed toes, webbed to three-quarters of -their extent; tail long, muscular, somewhat flattened, and tapering to -its extremity. The colour of the otter is a deep blackish brown; the -sides of the head, the front of the neck, and sometimes the breast, -brownish grey. The belly is usually, but not invariably, darker than the -back; the fur is short, and of two kinds; the inferior or woolly coat is -exceedingly fine and close; the longer hairs are soft and glossy, those -on the tail rather stiff and bristly. On either side of the nose, and -just below the chin, are two small light-coloured spots. So much for the -appearance of the otter: now we come to its dwelling. The otter is common -to England, Ireland, and Scotland; a marine variety is also to be met -with, differing from the common only in its superior size and more furry -coat. Some naturalists have set them down as a different species: I am, -however, disposed to regard them as a variety merely. - -The native haunt of the otter is the river-bank, where amongst the reeds -and sedge it forms a deep burrow, in which it brings forth and rears -its young. Its principal food is fish, which it catches with singular -dexterity. It lives almost wholly in the water, and seldom leaves it -except to devour its prey; on land it does not usually remain long at -any one time, and the slightest alarm is sufficient to cause it to -plunge into the stream. Yet, natural as seems a watery residence to this -creature, its hole is perfectly dry; were it to become otherwise, it -would be quickly abandoned. Its entrance, indeed, is invariably under -water, but its course then points upwards into the bank, towards the -surface of the earth, and it is even provided with several lodges or -apartments at different heights, into which it may retire in case of -floods, throwing up the earth behind it as it proceeds into the recesses -of its retreat; and when it has reached the last and most secure chamber, -it opens a small hole in the roof for the admission of atmospheric air, -without which the animal could not of course exist many minutes; and -should the flood rise so high as to burst into this last place of refuge, -the animal will open a passage through the roof, and venture forth upon -land, rather than remain in a damp and muddy bed. During severe floods, -otters are not unfrequently surprised at some distance from the water, -and taken. - -In a wild state the otter is fierce and daring, will make a determined -resistance when attacked by dogs, and being endued with no inconsiderable -strength of jaw, it often punishes its assailants terribly. I have myself -seen it break the fore-leg of a stout terrier. Otter-hunting was in -former times a favourite amusement even with the nobility, and regular -establishments of otter-hounds were kept. The animal is now become -scarce, and its pursuit is no longer numbered in our list of sports, -unless perhaps in Scotland, where, especially in the Western Islands, -otter-hunting is still extensively practised. - -Otters are easily rendered tame, especially if taken young, and may -be taught to follow their master like dogs, and even to fish for him, -cheerfully resigning their prey when taken, and dashing into the water -in search of more. A man named James Campbell, residing near Inverness, -had one which followed him wherever he went, unless confined, and would -answer to its name. When apprehensive of danger from dogs, it sought the -protection of its master, and would endeavour to spring into his arms for -greater security. It was frequently employed in catching fish, and would -sometimes take eight or ten salmon in a day. If not prevented, it always -attempted to break the fish behind the fin which is next the tail; and as -soon as one was taken away, it always dived in pursuit of more. It was -equally dexterous at sea-fishing, and took great numbers of young cod -and other fish. When tired it would refuse to fish any longer, and was -then rewarded with as much food as it could devour. Having satiated its -appetite, it always coiled itself up and went to sleep, no matter where -it was, in which state it was usually carried home. - -Brown relates that a person who kept a tame otter taught it to associate -with his dogs, who were on the most friendly terms with it on all -occasions, and that it would follow its master in company with its -canine friends. This person was in the habit of fishing the river with -nets, on which occasions the otter proved highly useful to him, by going -into the water and driving trout and other fish towards the net. It was -very remarkable that dogs accustomed to otter-hunting were so far from -offering it the least molestation, that they would not even hunt any -other otter while it remained with them; on which account its owner was -forced to part with it. - -The otter is of a most affectionate disposition, as may at once be seen -from its anxiety respecting its young. Indeed, the parental affection -of this creature is so powerful that the female otter will often suffer -herself to be killed rather than desert them. Professor Steller says, -“Often have I spared the lives of the female otters whose young ones I -took away. They expressed their sorrow by crying like human beings, and -following me as I was carrying off their young, while they called to -them for aid with a tone of voice which very much resembled the crying -of children. When I sat down in the snow, they came quite close to me, -and attempted to carry off their young. On one occasion when I had -deprived an otter of her progeny, I returned to the place eight days -after, and found the female sitting by the river listless and desponding, -who suffered me to kill her on the spot without making any attempt to -escape. On skinning her I found she was quite wasted away from sorrow -for the loss of her young.” This affection which the otter, while in a -state of nature, displays towards her young, is when in captivity usually -transferred to her master, or perhaps, as in an instance I shall mention -by and bye, to some one or other of his domestic animals. As an example -of the former case I may mention the following:--A person named Collins, -who lived near Wooler in Northumberland, had a tame otter, which followed -him wherever he went. He frequently took it to the river to fish for its -own food, and when satisfied it never failed to return to its master. One -day in the absence of Collins, the otter being taken out to fish by his -son, instead of returning as usual, refused to answer to the accustomed -call, and was lost. Collins tried every means to recover it; and after -several days’ search, being near the place where his son had lost it, and -calling its name, to his very great joy the animal came crawling to his -feet. In the following passage of the “Prædium Rusticum” of Vaniere, -allusion is made to tame otters employed in fishing:-- - - “Should chance within this dark recess betray - The tender young, bear quick the prize away; - Tamed by thy care the useful brood shall join - The watery chase, and add their toils to thine; - From each close lurking hole shall force away, - And drive within the nets the silver prey; - As the taught hound the nimble stag subdues, - And o’er the dewy plain the panting hare pursues.” - -Mr Macgillivray, in his interesting volume on British Quadrupeds in the -Naturalist’s Library, mentions several instances of otters having been -tamed and employed in fishing. Among others he relates that a gentleman -residing in the Outer Hebrides had one that supplied itself with food, -and regularly returned to the house. M’Diarmid, in his “Sketches from -Nature,” enumerates many others. One otter belonging to a poor widow, -“when led forth plunged into the Urr, and brought out all the fish it -could find.” Another, kept at Corsbie House, Wigtonshire, “evinced a -great fondness for gooseberries,” fondled “about her keeper’s feet -like a pup or kitten, and even seemed inclined to salute her cheek, -when permitted to carry her freedoms so far.” A third, belonging to Mr -Montieth of Carstairs, “though he frequently stole away at night to fish -by the pale light of the moon, and associate with his kindred by the -river side, his master of course was too generous to find any fault with -his peculiar mode of spending his evening hours. In the morning he was -always at his post in the kennel, and no animal understood better the -secret of ‘keeping his own side of the house.’ Indeed his pugnacity in -this respect gave him a great lift in the favour of the gamekeeper, who -talked of his feats wherever he went, and averred besides, that if the -best cur that ever ran ‘only daured to girn’ at his protegé, he would -soon ‘mak his teeth meet through him.’ To mankind, however, he was much -more civil, and allowed himself to be gently lifted by the tail, though -he objected to any interference with his snout, which is probably with -him the seat of honour.” - -Mr Glennon, of Suffolk-street, Dublin, informs me that Mr Murray, -gamekeeper to his Grace the Duke of Leinster, has a tame otter, which -enters the water to fish when desired, and lays whatever he catches with -due submission at his master’s feet. Mr Glennon further observes, that -the affection for his owner which this animal exhibits is equal or even -superior to that of the most faithful dog. The creature follows him -wherever he goes, will suffer him to lift him up by the tail and carry -him under his arm just as good-humouredly as would a dog, will spring -to his knee when he sits at home, and seems in fact never happy but -when in his company. This otter is well able to take care of himself, -and fearlessly repels the impertinent advances of the dogs: with such, -however, as treat him with fitting respect, he is on excellent terms. -Sometimes Mr Murray will hide himself from this animal, which will -immediately, on being set at liberty, search for him with the greatest -anxiety, running like a terrier dog by the scent. Mr Glennon assures me -that he has frequently seen the animal thus trace the footsteps of its -master for a considerable distance across several fields, and that too -with such precision as never in any instance to fail of finding him. - -I myself had once a tame otter, with a detail of whose habits and manners -I shall now conclude this article. When I first obtained the animal she -was very young, and not more than sixteen inches in length: young as she -was, she was very fierce, and would bite viciously if any one put his -hand near the nest of straw in which she was kept. As she grew a little -older, however, she became more familiarized to the approaches of human -beings, and would suffer herself to be gently stroked upon the back -or head; when tired of being caressed, she would growl in a peculiar -manner, and presently use her sharp teeth if the warning to let her -alone were not attended to. In one respect the manners of this animal -presented a striking contrast to the accounts I had read and heard of -other tame individuals. She evinced no particular affection for me; she -grew tame certainly, but her tameness was rather of a general than of an -exclusive character: unlike other wild animals which I had at different -times succeeded in domesticating, this creature testified no particular -gratitude to her master, and whoever fed her, or set her at liberty, was -her favourite for the time being. She preferred fish to any other diet, -and eagerly devoured all descriptions, whether taken in fresh or salt -water, though she certainly preferred the former. She would seize the -fish between her fore paws, hold it firmly on the ground, and devour it -downwards to the tail, which with the head the dainty animal rejected. -When fish could not be procured, she would eat, but sparingly, of bread -and milk, as well as the lean of raw meat; fat she could on no account be -prevailed upon to touch. - -Towards other animals my otter for a long period maintained an appearance -of perfect indifference. If a dog approached her suddenly, she would -utter a sharp, whistling noise, and betake herself to some place of -safety: if pursued, she would turn and show fight. If the dog exhibited -no symptoms of hostility, she would presently return to her place at the -fireside, where she would lie basking for hours at a time. - -When I first obtained this animal, there was no water sufficiently near -to where I lived in which I could give her an occasional bath; and being -apprehensive, that, if entirely deprived of an element in which nature -had designed her to pass so considerable a portion of her existence, -she would languish and die, I allowed her a tub as a substitute for -her native river; and in this she plunged and swam with much apparent -delight. It was in this manner that I became acquainted with the curious -fact, that the otter, when passing along beneath the surface of the -water, does not usually accomplish its object by swimming, but by walking -along the bottom, which it can do as securely and with as much rapidity -as it can run on dry land. - -After having had my otter about a year, I changed my residence to another -quarter of the town, and the stream well known to all who have seen -Edinburgh as the “Water of Leith,” flowed past the rear of the house. The -creature being by this time so tame as to be allowed perfect liberty, -I took it down one evening to the river, and permitted it to disport -itself for the first time since its capture in a deep and open stream. -The animal was delighted with the new and refreshing enjoyment, and I -found that a daily swim in the river greatly conduced to its health and -happiness. I would sometimes walk for nearly a mile along the bank, and -the happy and frolicsome creature would accompany me by water, and that -too so rapidly that I could not even by very smart walking keep pace with -it. On some occasions it caught small fish, such as minnows, eels, and -occasionally a trout of inconsiderable size. When it was only a minnow -or a small eel which it caught, it would devour it in the water, putting -its head for that purpose above the surface; when, however, it had made -a trout its prey, it would come to shore, and devour it more at leisure. -I strove very assiduously to train this otter to fish for me, as I had -heard they have sometimes been taught to do; but I never could succeed -in this attempt, nor could I even prevail upon the animal to give me up -at any time the fish which she had taken: the moment I approached her -to do so, as if suspecting my intention, she would at once take to the -water, and, crossing to the other side of the stream, devour her prey in -security. This difficulty in training I impute to the animal’s want of -an individual affection for me, for it was not affection, but her own -pleasure, which induced her to follow me down the stream; and she would -with equal willingness follow any other person who happened to release -her from her box. This absence of affection was probably nothing more -than peculiarity of disposition in this individual, there being numerous -instances of a contrary nature upon record. - -Although this otter failed to exhibit those affectionate traits of -character which have displayed themselves in other individuals of her -tribe towards the human species, she was by no means of a cold or -unsocial disposition towards some of my smaller domestic animals. With an -Angora cat she soon after I got her formed a very close friendship, and -when in the house was unhappy when not in the company of her friend. I -had one day an opportunity of witnessing a singular display of attachment -on the part of this otter towards the cat:--A little terrier dog attacked -the latter as she lay by the fire, and driving her thence, pursued her -under the table, where she stood on her defence, spitting and setting up -her back in defiance: at this instant the otter entered the apartment, -and no sooner did she perceive what was going on, than she flew with much -fury and bitterness upon the dog, seized him by the face with her teeth, -and would doubtless have inflicted a severe chastisement upon him, had I -not hastened to the rescue, and, separating the combatants, expelled the -terrier from the room. - -When permitted to wander in the garden, this otter would search for -grubs, worms, and snails, which she would eat with much apparent relish, -detaching the latter from their shell with surprising quickness and -dexterity. She would likewise mount upon the chairs at the window, and -catch and eat flies--a practice which I have not as yet seen recorded -in the natural history of this animal. I had this otter in my possession -nearly two years, and have in the above sketch mentioned only a few of -its most striking peculiarities. Did I not fear encroaching on space -which is perhaps the property of another contributor, I could have -carried its history to a much greater length. - - H. D. R. - - - - -RANDOM SKETCHES--No. II. - -AN AMERICAN NOBLEMAN. - - -There reached our city, on the morning of the 29th day of July, and -sailed from it on the night of the 31st, the most _remarkable_ person -perhaps by whom our shores have been lately visited. Were we to second -our own feelings, we would apply a higher epithet to William Lloyd -Garrison, but we have chosen one in which we are persuaded all parties -would agree who partook of his intercourse, however much they may differ -from each other and from him in principle and in practice. The object of -this short paper is to leave on the pages of our literature some record -of an extraordinary individual, who is a literary man himself, being the -editor and proprietor of a successful newspaper published at Boston in -Massachusetts; but his name may be best recommended to our readers in -connection with that of the well-known George Thompson, whose eloquence -was so powerful an auxiliary to the unnumbered petitions which at length -wrung from our legislature the just but expensive emancipation of the -West Indian negroes. Community of action and of suffering, as pleaders -for the rights of the black and coloured population of the United States, -has rendered them bosom friends, and each has a child called after the -name of the other. Thompson is now a denizen of the United Kingdom; but -while we write, Garrison is crossing the broad Atlantic to encounter -new dangers: comparatively safe at home, his life is forfeited whenever -he ventures to pass the moral line of demarcation which separates the -free from the slave states--forfeited so surely as there is a rifle in -Kentucky or a bowie knife in Alabama. - -We have set Garrison down as “an American nobleman,” and the “peerage” -in which we look for his titles and dignities is “The Martyr Age of the -United States of America,” by Harriet Martineau--a writer to whom none -will deny the possession of discrimination, which is all we contend for. -“William Lloyd Garrison is one of God’s nobility--the head of the moral -aristocracy, whose prerogatives we are contemplating. It is not only -that he is invulnerable to injury--that he early got the world under -his feet in a way which it would have made Zeno stroke his beard with a -complacency to witness; but that in his meekness, his sympathies, his -self-forgetfulness, he appears ‘covered all over with the stars and -orders’ of the spiritual realm whence he derives his dignities and his -powers. At present he is a marked man wherever he turns. The faces of -his friends brighten when his step is heard: the people of colour almost -kneel to him; and the rest of society jeers, pelts, and execrates him. -Amidst all this, his gladsome life rolls on, ‘too busy to be anxious, -and too loving to be sad.’ He springs from his bed singing at sunrise: -and if during the day tears should cloud his serenity, they are never -shed for himself. His countenance of steady compassion gives hope to -the oppressed, who look to him as the Jews looked to Moses. It was this -serene countenance, saint-like in its earnestness and purity, that a man -bought at a print-shop, where it was exposed without a name, and hung -up as the most apostolic face he ever saw. It does not alter the case -that the man took it out of the frame, and hid it when he found that it -was Garrison who had been adorning his parlour.” And he can be no common -man of whom it is recorded in the work to which we have already alluded, -that, on starting a newspaper for the advocacy of abolition principles, -“Garrison and his friend Knapp, a printer, were ere long living in a -garret, on bread and water, expending all their spare earnings and time -on the publication, and that when it sold particularly well (says Knapp), -we treated ourselves with a bowl of milk.”--_The Martyr Age of the United -States of America_, p. 5. - -As we are not writing his memoir, we refer such of our readers as may be -curious to inquire further into the subject to the pamphlet just cited, -and to the chapter headed “Garrison,” in the work on America by the same -writer. To one extraordinary feature of his character, however, we cannot -forbear adverting. He belongs to a society instituted for the apparently -negative purpose of _non-resistance_, and is therefore the safest of all -antagonists. Buffet as you list the head and sides of W. L. Garrison, -and you receive no buffet in return. That this is owing to no deficiency -of personal courage, admits of demonstration. Neither the prison into -which he was cast when a mere lad in one state, the price set on his head -in another, nor the tar-kettle to which he would on one occasion have -been dragged but for a stout arm that came to his rescue, has been able -to make Garrison swerve from what he considers to be his line of duty. -Another cause of this disposition to passive endurance must be sought, -and it is easily found: _he is in love_--deeply in love with all mankind. -His principle is to “resist not evil;” and he acts upon it to the fullest -extent. In fact, he appears to be several centuries in advance of his -time, and to live in a millennium of his own creating. - -We shall only add, that the effect which this remarkable man produced -on the minds of those who companied with him while in Dublin, was of -a very peculiar nature. Among these were persons of various sects and -parties, and of all varieties of temperament, but nearly all seemed -to concur in their estimate of his character. Though many seemed to -think that he carried out the great principle of love to an unnecessary -extent, none seemed able to gainsay his reasonings. Here and there tears -were seen to start, not called forth by any sublime sentiment or tender -emotion to which he had given words at the moment, but educed as it were -by the abstract contemplation of the image of intense virtue which he -represented; and most agreed in the opinion, that of all individuals -with whom they had ever been acquainted, he was the one of whom it could -be with most justice asserted, that none could hold much intercourse -with him without becoming better. His Dublin host sailed to Liverpool on -Monday evening for the mere purpose of enjoying his company for three -hours more, which was all the arrangements the Boston steamer would -permit, in which he was to leave Liverpool on Tuesday. - -It would be an act of great injustice to close this article without -making some mention of Garrison’s congenial friend and companion -Nathaniel Peabody Rogers of Plymouth, in New Hampshire, also the editor -and proprietor of a newspaper, of whom, however, we shall only say, -that if (as the phrase goes) _anything happened_ to W. L. Garrison, he -is the man who would be ready to occupy his place in the admiration and -execration of America. - - G. D. - - * * * * * - -TIME.--Time is the most undefinable yet most paradoxical of things: the -past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past -even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, -at once exists and expires. Time is the measure of all things, but is -itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself -undisclosed. Like space, it is incomprehensible, because it has no limit, -and it would be still more so, if it had. It is more in its source than -the Nile, and its termination, than the Niger; and advances like the -slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. It gives wings of -lightning to pleasure, but feet of lead to pain, and lends expectation -a curb, but enjoyment a spur. It robs beauty of her charms, to bestow -them on her picture, and builds a monument to merit, but denies it a -house; it is the transient and deceitful flatterer of falsehood, but the -tried and final friend of truth. Time is the most subtle, yet the most -insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing, is permitted -to take all, nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from -us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things -by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future -conqueror of death. Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, -is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counsellor of the wise, -bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other; -like Cassandra, it warns us with a voice that even the sages discredit -too long, and the silliest believe too late. Wisdom walks before it, -opportunity with it, and repentance behind it; he that has made it his -friend, will have little to fear from his enemies; but he that has -made it his enemy, will have little to hope from his friends.--_Burn’s -Youthful Piety._ - - * * * * * - -DIFFIDENCE.--A man gets along faster with a sensible married woman in -hours than with a young girl in whole days. It is next to impossible to -make them talk, or to reach them. They are like a green walnut: there are -half a dozen outer coats to be pulled off, one by one and slowly, before -you reach the kernel of their characters. - - - - -APOLOGUES AND FABLES, IN PROSE AND VERSE, FROM THE GERMAN AND OTHER -LANGUAGES. - - -No. IV.--THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE. - -A TRANSLATION FROM GOETHE. - - Joyous with youth, an Eagle spread his pinions - One sunny summer day, - And through the wilderness of Air’s dominions - Arose in quest of prey, - When, lo! the forest-ranger’s musquet roared, - And struck him as he soared, - Shattering the tendons of one buoyant wing, - And down to earth he fell, poor wounded thing! - Deep in the hollow of a grassy grove, - Where sleepy myrtles bloomed, and dark boughs wove - A trellis-curtain to shut out the sun, - He lay for three long days, with none - To tend him in that lowly lair, - And fed for three long nights upon his heart’s despair! - All-healing Nature brought at length - Relief at least from agonizing pain, - And some return of youthful strength. - Feebly he leaves his couch and crawls along, - And tries to raise his wing--alas! in vain-- - The glory has departed from the Strong, - And henceforth he can only hope to gain - A mean prey from the surface of that earth - Which gives the worm and beetle birth. - In mournful mood he rests beside a stream; - He looks up towards the tall majestic trees - Whose tops are waving to the mountain-breeze; - He sees the sun’s unconquerable beam - Shine forth; he gazes on his native skies, - And tears gush from his eyes. - - While Sorrow thus oppressed the noble Bird, - A rustling sound was heard-- - A flutter as of soft wings through the grove-- - And presently a Turtle-Dove - Alighted on a myrtle-bough anear. - He saw the Eagle droop his kingly head; - He saw tear after tear - Fall from his eyes into the dark rill under, - And sentiments of Pity, blent with Wonder, - Troubled his tender breast. My friend, he said, - Thou grievest! What has made thee grieve? - Thou showest thy wing--Ah! thou art maimed for life! - Well! what of that? Thou shouldst rejoice to leave - A world whose very pleasures most be won by Strife! - For, hast thou not around thee here - All blessings that can make Existence dear? - When high the noontide sunbeam burns, - Yield not these latticed walls a soothing shade? - When starry Night again returns, - Doth not her lamp light up this pleasant glade? - The soft winds bring thee odours from yon orange bowers; - Almost thy very path lies over flowers! - The trees around thee, the rich earth below, - Teem with luxuriance of sweet fruits for food; - The rapid and resounding flood - That rushes downward from the mountain - Flows here, will here for ever flow, - Diminished to a silver fountain - That sings its way o’er golden sands, - Fringed by the lily and young violet. - Here hast thou all a placid soul demands! - What wouldst thou more? Or, canst thou still regret - A barren world, which only lures and juggles - Its dupes to leave them doubly sad and lonely? - My friend! Mind was not made to spend itself in struggles! - True Happiness lies in Contentment only, - And true Contentment ever dwells apart - From Competition and Ambition--brooks - All wants--is rich though poor, and strong when weakest! - Ah, Wise One! spake the Eagle--and his looks - Betrayed the unaltered anguish of his heart-- - Ah, Wisdom! ever thus, and thus in vain, thou speakest! - - M. - - * * * * * - - Printed and published every Saturday by GUNN and CAMERON, - No. 6, Church Lane, College Green, Dublin, and sold by all - Booksellers. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. -18, October 31, 1840, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL *** - -***** This file should be named 54290-0.txt or 54290-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/4/2/9/54290/ - -Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from -images generously made available by JSTOR www.jstor.org) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 18, October 31, 1840 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: March 6, 2017 [EBook #54290] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL *** - - - - -Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from -images generously made available by JSTOR www.jstor.org) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span></p> - -<h1>THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL.</h1> - -<table summary="Headline layout"> - <tr> - <td class="smcap">Number 18.</td> - <td class="center">SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1840.</td> - <td class="right smcap">Volume I.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class="figcenter gap4" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/woodlands.jpg" width="500" height="360" alt="The mansion of Woodlands" /> -</div> - -<h2>WOODLANDS, COUNTY OF DUBLIN</h2> - -<p>Woodlands, the seat of one of our good resident landlords, -Colonel White, considered in connection with its beautiful demesne, -may justly rank as the finest aristocratic residence in -the immediate vicinity of our metropolis. As an architectural -composition, indeed, the house, or castle, as it is called, -will not bear a comparison, either for its classical correctness -of details, or its general picturesqueness of outline, with the -Castle of Clontarf—the architectural gem of our vicinity; but -its proportions are on a grander scale, and its general effect -accordingly more imposing, while its demesne scenery, in its -natural beauties, the richness of its plantations, and other artificial -improvements, is without a rival in our metropolitan -county, and indeed is characterised by some features of such -exquisite beauty as are very rarely found in park scenery any -where, and which are nowhere to be surpassed. Well might -the Prince Pückler Muskau, who despite of his strange name -has undoubtedly a true taste for the beautiful and picturesque, -describe the entrance to this demesne as “indeed the most -delightful in its kind that can be imagined.” “Scenery,” he -continues, “by nature most beautiful, is improved by art to -the highest degree of its capability, and, without destroying -its free and wild character, a variety and richness of vegetation -is produced which enchants the eye. Gay shrubs and -wild flowers, the softest turf and giant trees, festooned with -creeping plants, fill the narrow glen through which the path -winds, by the side of the clear dancing brook, which, falling -in little cataracts, flows on, sometimes hidden in the thicket, -sometimes resting like liquid silver in an emerald cup, or -rushing under overhanging arches of rock, which nature seems -to have hung there as triumphal gates for the beneficent Naïad -of the valley to pass through.”</p> - -<p>This description may appear somewhat enthusiastic, but we -can truly state as our own opinion, formed on a recent visit -to Woodlands, that it is by no means overdrawn, but, on the -contrary, that it would be equally difficult, if not impossible, -either for the pencil or the pen to convey an adequate idea of -the peculiar beauties of this little tract of fairy land.</p> - -<p>Singularly beautiful, however, as this sylvan glen unquestionably -is, it is only one of the many features for which -Woodlands is pre-eminently distinguished. Its finely undulating -surface—its sheets of water, though artificially formed—its -noble forest timber—but above all, its woodland walks, -commanding vistas of the exquisite valley of the Liffey, with -the more remote scenery bounded by the Dublin and Wicklow -mountains—all are equally striking, and present a combination -of varied and impressive features but rarely found within -the bounds of even a princely demesne.</p> - -<p>Though Woodlands derives very many of its attractions -from modern improvements, its chief artificial features are of -no recent creation, and are such as it would require a century -or two to bring to their present perfection. Woodlands is -emphatically an old place, and is said to have been granted -by King John to Sir Geoffry Lutterel, an Anglo-Norman -knight who accompanied him into Ireland, and in possession -of whose descendants it remained, and was their residence -from the close of the fifteenth till the commencement of the -present century, when it was sold to Mr Luke White by the -last Earl of Carhampton. Up to this period it was known by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span> -the name of Lutterelstown, a name which, for various reasons, -the family into whose possession it has passed have -wisely changed.</p> - -<p>The principal parts of the mansion were rebuilt about fifty -years back. But a portion of the original castle still remains, -and an apartment in it bears the name of King John’s chamber. -It has also received additional extension from its present -proprietor, who is now making further additions to the -structure.</p> - -<p>Woodlands is situated on the north bank of the Liffey, -about five miles from Dublin.</p> - -<p class="right">P.</p> - -<h2 class="gap4">PEGGY THE PISHOGUE.</h2> - -<p>“And now, Mickey Brennan, it’s not but I have a grate -regard for you, for troth you’re a dacint boy, and a dacint -father and mother’s child; but you see, avick, the short and -the long of it is, that you needn’t be looking after my little -girl any more.”</p> - -<p>Such was the conclusion of a long and interesting harangue -pronounced by old Brian Moran of Lagh-buoy, for the purpose -of persuading his daughter’s sweetheart to waive his pretensions—a -piece of diplomacy never very easy to effect, but doubly -difficult when the couple so unceremoniously separated have -laboured under the delusion that they were born for each -other, as was the ease in the affair of which our story tells; -and certainly, whatever Mr Michael Brennan’s other merits -may have been, he was very far from exhibiting himself as a -pattern of patience on the occasion.</p> - -<p>“Why, thin, Brian Moran!” he outrageously exclaimed, -“in the name of all that’s out of the way, will you give me -one reason, good, bad, or indifferent, and I’ll be satisfied?”</p> - -<p>“Och, you unfortunate gossoon, don’t be afther axing me,” -responded Brian dolefully.</p> - -<p>“Ah, thin, why wouldn’t I?” replied the rejected lover. -“Aren’t we playing together since she could walk—wasn’t -she the light of my eyes and the pulse of my heart these six -long years—and when did one of ye ever either say or sign -that I was to give over until this blessed minute?—tell me -that.”</p> - -<p>“Widdy Eelish!” groaned the closely interrogated parent; -“’tis true enough for you. Botheration to Peggy, I wish she -tould you herself. I knew how it ’ud be; an’ sure small -blame to you; an’ it’ll kill Meny out an’ out.”</p> - -<p>“Is it that I amn’t rich enough?” he asked impetuously.</p> - -<p>“No, avich machree, it isn’t; but, sure, can’t you wait an’ -ax Peggy.”</p> - -<p>“Is it because there’s any thing against me?” continued -he, without heeding this reference to the mother of his fair -one—“Is it because there’s any thing against me, I say, now -or evermore, in the shape of warrant, or summons, or bad -word, or any thing of the kind?”</p> - -<p>“Och, <i lang="ga">forrear, forrear</i>!” answered poor Brian, “but can’t -you ax Peggy!” and he clasped his hands again and again -with bitterness, for the young man’s interest had been, from -long and constant habit, so interwoven in his mind with those -of his darling Meny, that he was utterly unable to check the -burst of agony which the question had excited. The old man’s -evident grief and evasion of the question were not lost upon his -companion.</p> - -<p>“I’m belied—I know I am—I have it all now,” shouted he, -utterly losing all command of himself. “Come, Brian Moran, -this is no child’s play—tell me at once who dared to spake one -word against me, an’ if I don’t drive the lie down his throat, -be it man, woman, or child, I’m willing to lose her and every -thing else I care for!”</p> - -<p>“No, then,” answered Brian, “the never a one said a -word against you—you never left it in their power, avich; -an’ that’s what’s breaking my heart. Millia murther, it’s all -Peggy’s own doings.”</p> - -<p>“What!” he replied—“I’ll be bound Peggy had a bad -dhrame about the match. Arrah, out with it, an’ let us hear -what Peggy the Pishogue has to say for herself—out with it, -man; I’m asthray for something to laugh at.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, whisht, whisht—don’t talk that way of Peggy any -how,” exclaimed Brian, offended by this imputation on the -unerring wisdom of his helpmate. “Whatever she says, -doesn’t it come to pass? Didn’t it rain on Saturday last, fine -as the day looked? Didn’t Tim Higgins’s cow die? Wasn’t -Judy Carney married to Tom Knox afther all? Ay, an’ as -sure as your name is Mickey Brennan, what she says will -come true of yourself too. <i lang="ga">Forrear, forrear!</i> that the like -should befall one of your dacint kin!”</p> - -<p>“Why, what’s going to happen me?” inquired he, his voice -trembling a little in spite of all his assumed carelessness: for -contemptuously as he had alluded to the wisdom of his intended -mother-in-law, it stood in too high repute not to create -in him some dismay at the probability of his figuring unfavourably -in any of her prognostications.</p> - -<p>“Don’t ax me, don’t ax me,” was the sorrowing answer; -“but take your haste out of the stable at once, and go -straight to Father Coffey; and who knows but he might put -you on some way to escape the bad luck that’s afore you.”</p> - -<p>“Psha! fudge! ’pon my sowl it’s a shame for you, Brian -Moran.”</p> - -<p>“Divil a word of lie in it,” insisted Brian; “Peggy found it -all out last night; an’ troth it’s troubling her as much as if -you were her own flesh and blood. More betoken, haven’t you -a mole there under your ear?”</p> - -<p>“Well, and what if I have?” rejoined he peevishly, but -alarmed all the while by the undisguised pity which his future -lot seemed to call forth. “What if I have?—hadn’t many a -man the same afore me?”</p> - -<p>“No doubt, Mickey, agra, and the same bad luck came to -them too,” replied Brian. “Och, you unfortunate ignorant -crathur, sure you wouldn’t have me marry my poor little girl -to a man that’s sooner or later to end his days on the gallows!”</p> - -<p>“The gallows!” he slowly exclaimed. “Holy Virgin! is that -what’s to become of me after all?” He tried to utter a laugh of -derision and defiance, but it would not do; such a vaticination -from such a quarter was no laughing matter. So yielding at last -to the terror which he had so vainly affected to combat, he -buried his face in his hands, and threw himself violently on -the ground; while Brian, scarcely less moved by the revelation -he had made on the faith of his wife’s far-famed sagacity, -seated himself compassionately beside him to administer what -consolation he could.</p> - -<p>Mickey Brennan, in the parlance of our country, was a snug -gossoon, well to do in the world, had a nice bit of land, a comfortable -house, good crops, a pig or two, a cow or two, a -sheep or two, a handsome good-humoured face, a good character; -and, what made him more marriageable than all the -rest, he had the aforementioned goods all to himself, for his -father and mother were dead, and his last sister had got married -at Shrove-tide. With all these combined advantages he -might have selected any girl in the parish; but his choice -was made long years before: it was Meny Moran or nobody—a -choice in which Meny Moran herself perfectly concurred, -and which her father, good, easy, soft-hearted Brian, never -thought of disputing, although he was able to give her a fortune -probably amounting to double what her suitor was -worth. But was the fair one’s mother ever satisfied when such -a disparity existed? Careful creatures! pound for pound is -the maternal maxim in all ages and countries, and to give -Peggy Moran her due, she was as much influenced by it as -her betters, and murmured loud and long at the acquiescence of -her husband in such a sacrifice. She murmured in vain, however: -much as Brian deferred to her judgment and advice in -all other matters, his love for his fond and pretty Meny armed -him with resolution in this. When she wept at her mother’s -insinuations, he always found a word of comfort for her; and -if words wouldn’t do, he managed to bring Mickey and her -together, and left them to settle the matter after their own -way—a method which seldom failed of success. But Peggy -was not to be baulked of her will. What! she whose mere -word could make or break any match for five miles round, to -be forbidden all interference in her own daughter’s: it was -not to be borne. So at last she applied herself in downright -earnest to the task. She dreamed at the match, tossed cups at -it, saw signs at it: in fine, called her whole armoury of necromancy -into requisition, and was rewarded at last by the discovery -that the too highly-favoured swain was inevitably destined to -end his days on the gallows—a discovery which, as has been -already seen, fulfilled her most sanguine wishes.</p> - -<p>Whatever may be the opinion of other and wiser people on -the subject, in the parish of Ballycoursey or its vicinity it was -rather an ugly joke to be thus devoted to the infernal gods by -a prophetess of such unerring sagacity as Peggy Moran, or, -as she was sometimes styled with reference to her skill in all -supernatural matters, Peggy the Pishogue—that cognomen -implying an acquaintance with more things in heaven and -earth than are dreamt of in philosophy; and most unquestionably -it was no misnomer: the priest himself was not more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span> -deeply read in his breviary than was she in all the signs and -omens whereby the affairs of this moving world are shadowed -and foretokened—nothing was too great or too small for her -all-piercing ken—in every form of augury she was omniscient, -from cup-tossing up to necromancy—in vain the mystic dregs -of the tea-cup assumed shapes that would have puzzled Doctor -Wall himself: with her first glance she detected at once the -true meaning of the hieroglyphic symbol, and therefrom dealt -out deaths, births, and marriages, with the infallibility of a -newspaper—in vain Destiny, unwilling to be unrolled, shrouded -itself in some dream that would have bothered King Solomon. -Peggy no sooner heard it than it was unravelled—there was -not a ghost in the country with whose haunts and habits she -was not as well acquainted as if she was one of the fraternity—not -a fairy could put his nose out without being detected by -her—the value of property was increased tenfold all round the -country by the skill with which she wielded her charms and -spells for the discovery of all manner of theft. But I must -stop; for were I to recount but half her powers, the eulogium -would require a <cite>Penny Journal</cite> for itself, and still leave matter -for a supplement. It would be a melancholy instance indeed -of Irish ingratitude if for all these superhuman exertions she -was not rewarded by universal confidence. To the credit of -the parish be it said that no such stigma was attached to it: -nothing could equal the estimation in which all her words and -actions were held by her neighbours—nothing but the estimation -in which they were held in her own household by her -husband and daughter.</p> - -<p>Such being the gifted personage who had foretold the coming -disasters of Mickey Brennan, it is not to be wondered at -that the matter created a sensation, particularly as sundry -old hags to whom she had imparted her discovery were requested -to hush it up for the poor gossoon’s sake. His friends -sorrowed over him as a gone man, for not the most sceptical -among them ventured to hazard even a doubt of Peggy’s veracity—in -fact, they viewed the whole as a matter requiring -consolation and sympathy rather than as a scrutiny into the -sources of her information, which by common consent were -viewed as indubitable, while some, more compassionate than -the rest, went so far as to declare “that since the thing could -not be avoided, and Mickey, poor fellow, must be hanged, they -hoped it might be for something dacint, not robbing, or coining, -or the like.”</p> - -<p>The hardest task of all is to describe the feelings of poor -Brennan himself on the occasion; for much as he had affected -to disparage the sybilline revelations of the wierd woman of -Ballycoursey, there was not one in the neighbourhood who was -more disposed to yield them unlimited credence in any case -but his own; and even in his own case he was not long enabled -to struggle against conviction. Let people prate as they may -about education and its effects, it will require a period of -more generations than one to root the love of the marvellous -out of the hearts of our countrymen; and until that be effected, -every village in the land will have its wise woman, and with -nine-tenths of her neighbours what she says will be regarded -as gospel. Some people of course will laugh to scorn such an -assertion, and more will very respectfully beg leave to doubt -it, but still it is true; and in the more retired inland villages -circumstances are every day occurring far more extravagant -than anything detailed in this story, as is very well known to -all who are much conversant with such places. But to return -to the doomed man:—How could he be expected to bear up -against this terrible denunciation, when all the consolation he -could receive from his nearest and dearest was that “it was a -good man’s death?” Death! poor fellow, he had suffered the -pains of a thousand deaths already, in living without the hope -of ever being the husband of his Meny. Death, instant and -immediate, would have been a relief to him; and it was not -long until, by his anxiety to obtain that relief, he afforded an -opportunity to Peggy of displaying her own reliance on the -correctness of her prognostications. Goaded into madness by -his present sufferings and his fears for the future, he made an -attempt upon his life by plunging into an adjacent lake when -no one, as he thought, was near to interrupt his intentions. -It was not so, however—a shepherd had observed him, but at -such a distance that before help could be obtained to rescue -him he was to all appearance lifeless. The news flew like -wildfire: he was dead, stone dead, they said—had lain in the -water ten minutes, half an hour, half the day, since last night; -but in one point they all concurred—dead he was; dead as St -Dominick.</p> - -<p>“Troth he’s not,” was Peggy’s cool rejoinder. “Be quiet, -and I’ll engage he’ll come to. <i lang="ga">Nabocklish</i>, he that’s born to -be hanged will never be drowned. Wait a while an’ hould -your tongues. <i lang="ga">Nabocklish</i>, I tell you he’ll live to spoil a -market yet, an’ more’s the pity.”</p> - -<p>People shook their heads, and almost began to think their -wise woman had made a mistake, and read hemp instead of -water. It was no such thing, however: slowly and beyond -all hopes, Brennan recovered the effects of his rash attempt, -thereby fulfilling so much of his declared destiny, and raising -the reputation of Mrs Moran to a point that she never had -attained before. That very week she discovered no less than -six cases of stolen goods, twice detected the good people taking -unauthorised liberties with their neighbours’ churns, and -spaed a score of fortunes, at the very least; and he, poor fellow, -satisfied at last that Fortune was not to be bilked so -easily, resigned himself to his fate like a man, and began to -look about him in earnest for some opportunity of gracing the -gallows without disgracing his people.</p> - -<p>And Meny—poor heart-stricken Meny—loving as none but -the true and simple-minded can love, the extent of her grief -was such as the true and simple-minded only can know; and -yet there was worse in store for her. Shortly after this consummation -of her mother’s fame, a whisper began to creep -through the village—a whisper of dire import, portending -death and disaster on some luckless wight unknown—“Peggy -Moran has something on her mind.” What could it be? Silent -and mysterious she shook her head when any one ventured -to question her—the pipe was never out of her jaw unless when -she slept or sat down to her meals—she became as cross as a -cat, which to do her justice was not her wont, and eschewed -all sorts of conversation, which most assuredly was not her -wont either. The interest and curiosity of her neighbours was -raised to a most agonising pitch—every one trembled lest the -result should be some terrible revelation affecting himself or -herself, as the case might be: it was the burden of the first -question asked in the morning, the last at night. Every word -she uttered during the day was matter of speculation to an -hundred anxious inquirers; and there was every danger of -the good people of Ballycoursey going absolutely mad with -fright if they were kept any longer in the dark on the subject.</p> - -<p>At length there was a discovery; but, as is usually the case -in all scrutinies into forbidden matters, it was at the cost of -the too-daring investigator. Peggy and Brian were sitting -one night before the fire, preparing for their retirement, when -a notion seized the latter to probe the sorrows of his helpmate.</p> - -<p>“’Deed it well becomes you to ax,” quoth the wierd woman -in answer to his many and urgent inquiries; “for Brian, -achorra machree, my poor ould man, there’s no use in hiding -it—it’s all about yourself.”</p> - -<p>“No, then!” exclaimed the surprised interrogator; “the -Lord betune us an’ harm, is it?”</p> - -<p>“’Deed yes, Brian,” responded the sybil with a melancholy -tone, out of the cloud of smoke in which she had sought to -hide her troubles. “I’m thinking these last few days you’re -not yourself at all at all.”</p> - -<p>“Tare an ounties! maybe I’m not,” responded he of the -doubtful identity.</p> - -<p>“Do you feel nothing on your heart, Brian achree?”</p> - -<p>“I do; sure enough I do,” gasped poor Brian, ready to believe -anything of himself.</p> - -<p>“Something like a <em>plurrisy</em>, isn’t it?” inquired the mourner.</p> - -<p>“Ay, sure enough, like a plurrisy for all the world, Lord -betune us an’ harm!”</p> - -<p>“An’ you do be very cold, I’ll engage, these nights, Brian?” -continued she.</p> - -<p>“Widdy Eelish! I’m as could as ice this minute,” answered -Brian, and his teeth began to chatter as if he was up -to his neck in a mill-pond.</p> - -<p>“An’ your appetite is gone entirely, achra?” continued his -tormentor.</p> - -<p>“Sorra a word o’ lie in it,” answered the newly discovered -invalid, forgetful however that he had just finished discussing -a skib of potatoes and a mug of milk for his supper.</p> - -<p>“And the cat, the crathur, looked at you this very night -after licking her paw.”</p> - -<p>“I’ll engage she did. Bad luck to her,” responded Brian, -“I wouldn’t put it beyant her.”</p> - -<p>“Let me feel your pulse, asthore,” said Peggy in conclusion; -and Brian submitted his trembling wrist to her inspection, -anxiously peering into her face all the while to read his -doom therein. A long and deep sigh broke from her lips, -along with a most voluminous puff of smoke, as she let the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> -limb drop from her hold, and commenced rocking herself to -and fro, uttering a low and peculiar species of moan, which -to her terrified patient sounded as a death summons.</p> - -<p>“Murther-an’-ages, Peggy, sure it’s not going to die I am!” -exclaimed Brian.</p> - -<p>“Och, widdy! widdy!” roared the afflicted spouse, now -giving full vent to her anguish, “it’s little I thought, Brian -asthore machree, when I married you in your beauty and your -prime, that I’d ever live to cry the keen over you—ochone, -ochone! ’tis you was the good ould man in airnest—och! och!”</p> - -<p>“Arrah, Peggy!” interposed the object of her rather premature -lamentations.</p> - -<p>“Oh, don’t talk to me—don’t talk to me. I’ll never hould -up my head again, so I won’t!” continued the widow that was -to be, in a tone that quickly brought all the house about her, -and finally all the neighbours. Great was the uproar that ensued, -and noisy the explanations, which, however, afforded no -small relief to the minds of all persons not immediately concerned -in the welfare of the doomed Brian. Peggy was inconsolable -at the prospect of such a bereavement. Meny clung -in despair to the poor tottering old man, her grief too deep -for lamentation, while he hobbled over his prayers as fast and -as correctly as his utter dismay would permit him. Next -morning he was unable to rise, refused all nourishment, and -called vehemently for the priest. Every hour he became -worse; he was out of one faint into another; announced symptoms -of every complaint that ever vexed mankind, and declared -himself affected by a pain in every member, from his toe to his -cranium. No wonder it was a case to puzzle the doctor. -The man of science could make nothing of it—swore it was the -oddest complication of diseases that ever he had heard of—and -strongly recommended that the patient be tossed in a blanket, -and his wife treated to a taste of the horse-pond. Father -Coffey was equally nonplussed.</p> - -<p>“What ails you, Brian?”</p> - -<p>“An all-overness of some kind or other, your reverence,” -groaned the sufferer in reply, and the priest had to own himself -a bothered man. Nothing would induce him to rise—“where’s -the use in a man’s gettin’ up, an’ he goin’ to die?” -was his answer to those who endeavoured to rouse him—“isn’t -it a dale dacinter to die in bed like a Christian?”</p> - -<p>“God’s good!—maybe you won’t die this time, Brian.”</p> - -<p>“Arrah, don’t be talking—doesn’t Peggy know best?” -And with this undeniable assertion he closed all his arguments, -receiving consolation from none, not even his heart-broken -Meny. Despite of all his entreaties to be let die in peace, the -doctor, who guessed how matters stood, was determined to -try the effects of a blister, and accordingly applied one of -more than ordinary strength, stoutly affirming that it would -have the effect of the patient being up and walking on the -morrow. A good many people had gathered into his cabin -to witness the cure, as they always do when their presence -could be best dispensed with; and to these Peggy, with tears -and moans, was declaring her despair in all remedies whatever, -and her firm conviction that a widow she’d be before -Sunday, when Brian, roused a little by the uneasy stimulant -from the lethargy into which they all believed him to be sunk, -faintly expressed his wish to be heard.</p> - -<p>“Peggy, agra,” said he, “there’s no denyin’ but you’re a -wonderful woman entirely; an’ since I’m goin’, it would be a -grate consolation to me if you’d tell us all now you found out -the sickness was on me afore I knew it myself. It’s just curiosity, -agra—I wouldn’t like to die, you see, without knowin’ -for why an’ for what—it ’ud have a foolish look if any body -axed me what I died of, an’ me not able to tell them.”</p> - -<p>Peggy declared her willingness to do him this last favour, -and, interrupted by an occasional sob, thus proceeded:—</p> - -<p>“It was Thursday night week—troth I’ll never forget that -night, Brian asthore, if I live to be as ould as Noah—an’ it -was just after my first sleep that I fell draiming. I thought -I went down to Dan Keefe’s to buy a taste ov mate, for ye all -know he killed a <i lang="ga">bullsheen</i> that day for the market ov Moneen; -an’ I thought when I went into his house, what did I -see hangin’ up but an ugly <em>lane</em> carcase, an’ not a bit too fresh -neither, an’ a strange man dividin’ it with a hatchet; an’ says -he to me with a mighty grum look,</p> - -<p>“‘Well, honest woman, what do you want?—is it to buy -bullsheen?’</p> - -<p>“‘Yes,’ says I, ‘but not the likes of that—it’s not what -we’re used to.’</p> - -<p>“‘Divil may care,’ says he; ‘I’ll make bould to cut out a -rib for you.’</p> - -<p>“‘Oh, don’t if you plase,’ says I, puttin’ out my hand to -stop him; an’ with that what does he do but he lifts the -hatchet an’ makes a blow at my hand, an’ cuts the weddin’ -ring in two on my finger?”</p> - -<p>“Dth! dth! dth!” was ejaculated on all sides by her -wondering auditory, for the application of the dream to Brian -was conclusive, according to the popular method of explaining -such matters. They looked round to see how he sustained -the brunt of such a fatal revelation. There he was sitting -bolt upright in the bed, notwithstanding his unpleasant incumbrance, -his mouth and eyes wide open.</p> - -<p>“Why, thin, blur-an’-ages, Peggy Moran,” he slowly exclaimed, -when he and they had recovered a little from their -surprise, “do you mane to tell me that’s all that ailed me?”</p> - -<p>Peggy and her coterie started back as he uttered this extraordinary -inquiry, there being something in his look that -portended his intention to leap out of bed, and probably display -his indignation a little too forcibly, for, quiet as he was, -his temper wasn’t proof against a blister; but his bodily -strength failed him in the attempt, and, roaring with pain, he -resumed his recumbent position. But Peggy’s empire was -over—the blister had done its business, and in a few days he -was able to stump about as usual, threatening to inflict all -sorts of punishments upon any one who dared to laugh at him. -A laugh is a thing, however, not easy to be controlled, and -finally poor Brian’s excellent temper was soured to such a -degree by the ridicule which he encountered, that he determined -to seek a reconciliation with young Brennan, pitch the -decrees of fate to Old Nick, and give Father Coffey a job -with the young couple.</p> - -<p>To this resolution we are happy to say he adhered: still -happier are we to say, that among the county records we have -not yet met the name of his son-in-law, and that unless good -behaviour and industry be declared crimes worthy of bringing -their perpetrator to the gallows, there is very little chance -indeed of Mickey Brennan fulfilling the prophecy of Peggy -the Pishogue.</p> - -<p class="right">A. M’C.</p> - -<h2 class="gap4">A SHORT CHAPTER ON BUSTLES.</h2> - -<p>Bustles!—what are bustles? Ay, reader, fair reader, you -may well ask that question. But some of your sex at least -know the meaning of the word, and the use of the article it -designates, sufficiently well, though, thank heaven! there are -many thousands of my countrywomen who are as yet ignorant -of both, and indeed to whom such knowledge would be quite -useless. Would that I were in equally innocent ignorance! -Not, reader, that I am of the feminine gender, and use the -article in question; but my knowledge of its mysterious uses, -and the various materials of which it is composed, has been -the ruin of me. I will have inscribed on my tomb, “Here -lies a man who was killed by a bustle!”</p> - -<p>But before I detail the circumstances of my unhappy fate, it -will perhaps be proper to give a description of the article itself -which has been the cause of my undoing. Well, then, a -bustle is…</p> - -<p>But the editor will perhaps object to this description as -being too distinct and graphic. If so, then here goes for another -less laboured and more characteristically mysterious.</p> - -<p>A bustle is an article used by ladies to take from their form -the character of the Venus of the Greeks, and impart to it -that of the Venus of the Hottentots!</p> - -<p>That ladies should have a taste so singular, may appear incredible; -but there is no accounting for tastes, and I know to -my cost that the fact is indisputable.</p> - -<p>I made the discovery a few years since, and up to that time -I had always borne the character of a sage, sedate, and promising -young man—one likely to get on in the world by my -exertions, and therefore sure to be helped by my friends. I -was even, I flatter myself, a favourite with the fair sex too; and -justly so, for I was their most ardent admirer; and there was -one most lovely creature among them whom I had fondly -hoped to have made my own. But, alas! how vain and visionary -are our hopes of human happiness: such hopes with me -have fled for ever! As I said before, I am a ruined man, and -all in consequence of ladies’ bustles.</p> - -<p>In an unlucky hour I was in a ball-room, seated at a little -distance from my fair one—my eyes watching her every air -and look, my ears catching every sound of her sweet voice—when -I heard her complain to a female friend, in tones of the -softest whispering music, that she was oppressed with the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> -heat of the place. “My dear,” her friend replied, “it must -be the effect of your bustle. What do you stuff it with?” -“Hair—horse-hair,” was the reply. “Hair!—mercy on us!” -says her friend, “it is no wonder you are oppressed—that’s a -<em>hot-and-hot</em> material truly. Why, you should do as I do—you -do not see me fainting; and the reason is, that I stuff my -bustle with hay—new hay!”</p> - -<p>I heard no more, for the ladies, supposing from my eyes that -I was a listener, changed the topic of conversation, though -indeed it was not necessary, for at the time I had not the -slightest notion of what they meant. Time, however, passed -on most favourably to my wishes—another month, and I should -have called my Catherine my own. She was on a visit to my -sister, and I had every opportunity to make myself agreeable. -We sang together, we talked together, and we danced together. -All this would have been very well, but unfortunately -we also walked together. It was on the last time we ever did -so that the circumstance occurred which I have now to relate, -and which gave the first death-blow to my hopes of happiness. -We were crossing Carlisle-bridge, her dear arm linked -in mine, when we chanced to meet a female friend; and wishing -to have a little chat with her without incommoding the -passengers, we got to the edge of the flag-way, near which at -the time there was standing an old white horse, totally blind. -He was a quiet-looking animal, and none of us could have supposed -from his physiognomy that he had any savage propensity -in his nature. But imagine my astonishment and horror -when I suddenly heard my charmer give a scream that pierced -me to the very heart!—and when I perceived that this atrocious -old blind brute, having slowly and slyly swayed his head -round, caught the—how shall I describe it?—caught my Catherine—really -I can’t say how—but he caught her; and before -I could extricate her from his jaws, he made a reef in -her garments such as lady never suffered. Silk gown, petticoat, -bustle—everything, in fact, gave way, and left an opening—a -chasm—an exposure, that may perhaps be imagined, -but cannot be described.<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></p> - -<p>As rapidly as I could, of course, I got my fair one into a -jarvy, and hurried home, the truth gradually opening in my -mind as to the cause of the disaster—it was, that the blind -horse, hungry brute, had been attracted by the smell of my -Catherine’s bustle, made of hay—new hay!</p> - -<p>Catherine was never the same to me afterwards—she took -the most invincible dislike to walk with me, or rather, perhaps, -to be seen in the streets with me. But matters were not -yet come to the worst, and I had indulged in hopes that she -would yet be mine. I had however taken a deep aversion to -bustles, and even determined to wage war upon them to the -best of my ability. In this spirit, a few days after, I determined -to wreak my vengeance on my sister’s bustle, for I -found by this time that she too was emulous of being a Hottentot -beauty. Accordingly, having to accompany her and -my intended wife to a ball, I stole into my sister’s room in the -course of the evening before she went into it to dress, and -pouncing upon her hated bustle, which lay on her toilet table, -I inflicted a cut on it with my penknife, and retired. But -what a mistake did I make! Alas, it was not my sister’s -bustle, but my Catherine’s! However, we went to the ball, -and for a time all went smoothly on. I took out my Catherine -as a partner in the dance; but imagine my horror when -I perceived her gradually becoming thinner and thinner—losing -her <i lang="fr">enbonpoint</i>—as she danced; and, worse than that, that -every movement which she described in the figure—the ladies’ -chain, the chassee—was accurately marked—recorded—on -the chalked floor with—bran! Oh dear! reader, pity me: -was ever man so unfortunate? This sealed my doom. She -would never speak to me, or even look at me afterwards.</p> - -<p>But this was not all. My character with the sex—ay, with -both sexes—was also destroyed. I who had been heretofore, -as I said, considered as an example of prudence and discretion -for a young man, was now set down as a thoughtless, -devil-may-care wag, never to do well: the men treated me -coldly, and the women turned their backs upon me; and so thus -in reality they made me what they had supposed I was. It -was indeed no wonder, for I could never after see a lady with -a bustle but I felt an irresistible inclination to laughter, and -this too even on occasions when I should have kept a grave -countenance. If I met a couple of country or other friends in -the street, and inquired after their family—the cause, perhaps, -of the mourning in which they were attired—while they were -telling me of the death of some father, sister, or other relative, -I to their astonishment would take to laughing, and if -there was a horse near us, give the lady a drag away to another -situation. And if then I were asked the meaning of this -ill-timed mirth, and this singular movement, what could I -say? Why, sometimes I made the matter worse by replying, -“Dear madam, it is only to save your bustle from the horse!”</p> - -<p>Stung at length by my misfortunes and the hopelessness of -my situation, I became utterly reckless, and only thought of -carrying out my revenge on the bustles in every way in my -power; and this I must say with some pride I did for a while -with good effect. I got a number of the hated articles manufactured -for myself, but not, reader, to wear, as you shall -hear. Oh! no; but whenever I received an invitation to a -party—which indeed had latterly been seldom sent me—I -took one of these articles in my pocket, and, watching a favourable -opportunity when all were engaged in the mazy -figure of the dance, let it secretly fall amongst them. The -result may be imagined—ay, reader, imagine it, for I cannot -describe it with effect. First, the half-suppressed but simultaneous -scream of all the ladies as it was held up for a -claimant; next, the equally simultaneous movement of the -ladies’ hands, all quickly disengaged from those of their partners, -and not raised up in wonder, but carried down to their—bustles! -Never was movement in the dance executed with -such precision; and I should be immortalised as the inventor -of an attitude so expressive of sentiment and of <em>feeling</em>.</p> - -<p>Alas! this is the only consolation now afforded me in my -afflictions: I invented a new attitude—a new movement in the -quadrille: let others see that it be not forgotten. I am now -a banished man from all refined society: no lady will appear, -where that odious Mr Bustle, as they call me, might possibly -be; and so no one will admit me inside their doors. I have -nothing left me, therefore, but to live out my solitary life, -and vent my execration of bustles in the only place now left -me—the columns of the Irish Penny Journal.</p> - -<div class="right"> -<div class="figright"> -<img src="images/bustle.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="A bustle" /> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="footnotes"> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> A fact.</p> - -</div> - -</div> - -<h2 class="gap4">THE COMMON OTTER.</h2> - -<p>The otter varies in size, some adult specimens measuring no -more than thirty-six inches in length, tail inclusive, while -others, again, are to be found from four and a half to five -feet long. The head of the otter is broad and flat; its muzzle -is broad, rounded, and blunt; its eyes small and of a semi-circular -form; neck extremely thick, nearly as thick as the -body; body long, rounded, and very flexible; legs short and -muscular; feet furnished with five sharp-clawed toes, webbed -to three-quarters of their extent; tail long, muscular, somewhat -flattened, and tapering to its extremity. The colour of -the otter is a deep blackish brown; the sides of the head, the -front of the neck, and sometimes the breast, brownish grey. -The belly is usually, but not invariably, darker than the back; -the fur is short, and of two kinds; the inferior or woolly coat -is exceedingly fine and close; the longer hairs are soft and -glossy, those on the tail rather stiff and bristly. On either -side of the nose, and just below the chin, are two small light-coloured -spots. So much for the appearance of the otter: -now we come to its dwelling. The otter is common to England, -Ireland, and Scotland; a marine variety is also to be met -with, differing from the common only in its superior size and -more furry coat. Some naturalists have set them down as a -different species: I am, however, disposed to regard them as -a variety merely.</p> - -<p>The native haunt of the otter is the river-bank, where -amongst the reeds and sedge it forms a deep burrow, in which -it brings forth and rears its young. Its principal food is fish, -which it catches with singular dexterity. It lives almost -wholly in the water, and seldom leaves it except to devour its -prey; on land it does not usually remain long at any one -time, and the slightest alarm is sufficient to cause it to plunge -into the stream. Yet, natural as seems a watery residence to -this creature, its hole is perfectly dry; were it to become -otherwise, it would be quickly abandoned. Its entrance, indeed, -is invariably under water, but its course then points -upwards into the bank, towards the surface of the earth, and -it is even provided with several lodges or apartments at different -heights, into which it may retire in case of floods, -throwing up the earth behind it as it proceeds into the recesses<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span> -of its retreat; and when it has reached the last and -most secure chamber, it opens a small hole in the roof for the -admission of atmospheric air, without which the animal could -not of course exist many minutes; and should the flood rise -so high as to burst into this last place of refuge, the animal -will open a passage through the roof, and venture forth upon -land, rather than remain in a damp and muddy bed. During -severe floods, otters are not unfrequently surprised at some -distance from the water, and taken.</p> - -<p>In a wild state the otter is fierce and daring, will make a -determined resistance when attacked by dogs, and being endued -with no inconsiderable strength of jaw, it often punishes -its assailants terribly. I have myself seen it break the fore-leg -of a stout terrier. Otter-hunting was in former times a -favourite amusement even with the nobility, and regular establishments -of otter-hounds were kept. The animal is now become -scarce, and its pursuit is no longer numbered in our list -of sports, unless perhaps in Scotland, where, especially in the -Western Islands, otter-hunting is still extensively practised.</p> - -<p>Otters are easily rendered tame, especially if taken young, -and may be taught to follow their master like dogs, and even -to fish for him, cheerfully resigning their prey when taken, -and dashing into the water in search of more. A man named -James Campbell, residing near Inverness, had one which followed -him wherever he went, unless confined, and would answer -to its name. When apprehensive of danger from dogs, -it sought the protection of its master, and would endeavour -to spring into his arms for greater security. It was frequently -employed in catching fish, and would sometimes take -eight or ten salmon in a day. If not prevented, it always attempted -to break the fish behind the fin which is next the tail; -and as soon as one was taken away, it always dived in pursuit -of more. It was equally dexterous at sea-fishing, and -took great numbers of young cod and other fish. When tired -it would refuse to fish any longer, and was then rewarded -with as much food as it could devour. Having satiated its -appetite, it always coiled itself up and went to sleep, no matter -where it was, in which state it was usually carried home.</p> - -<p>Brown relates that a person who kept a tame otter taught -it to associate with his dogs, who were on the most friendly -terms with it on all occasions, and that it would follow its -master in company with its canine friends. This person was -in the habit of fishing the river with nets, on which occasions -the otter proved highly useful to him, by going into the water -and driving trout and other fish towards the net. It was -very remarkable that dogs accustomed to otter-hunting were -so far from offering it the least molestation, that they would -not even hunt any other otter while it remained with them; -on which account its owner was forced to part with it.</p> - -<p>The otter is of a most affectionate disposition, as may at -once be seen from its anxiety respecting its young. Indeed, -the parental affection of this creature is so powerful that the -female otter will often suffer herself to be killed rather than -desert them. Professor Steller says, “Often have I spared -the lives of the female otters whose young ones I took away. -They expressed their sorrow by crying like human beings, -and following me as I was carrying off their young, while they -called to them for aid with a tone of voice which very much -resembled the crying of children. When I sat down in the -snow, they came quite close to me, and attempted to carry off -their young. On one occasion when I had deprived an otter -of her progeny, I returned to the place eight days after, and -found the female sitting by the river listless and desponding, -who suffered me to kill her on the spot without making any -attempt to escape. On skinning her I found she was quite -wasted away from sorrow for the loss of her young.” This -affection which the otter, while in a state of nature, displays -towards her young, is when in captivity usually transferred -to her master, or perhaps, as in an instance I shall mention -by and bye, to some one or other of his domestic animals. As -an example of the former case I may mention the following:—A -person named Collins, who lived near Wooler in Northumberland, -had a tame otter, which followed him wherever he -went. He frequently took it to the river to fish for its own -food, and when satisfied it never failed to return to its master. -One day in the absence of Collins, the otter being taken -out to fish by his son, instead of returning as usual, refused to -answer to the accustomed call, and was lost. Collins tried -every means to recover it; and after several days’ search, being -near the place where his son had lost it, and calling its -name, to his very great joy the animal came crawling to his -feet. In the following passage of the “Prædium Rusticum” -of Vaniere, allusion is made to tame otters employed in fishing:—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse">“Should chance within this dark recess betray</div> -<div class="verse">The tender young, bear quick the prize away;</div> -<div class="verse">Tamed by thy care the useful brood shall join</div> -<div class="verse">The watery chase, and add their toils to thine;</div> -<div class="verse">From each close lurking hole shall force away,</div> -<div class="verse">And drive within the nets the silver prey;</div> -<div class="verse">As the taught hound the nimble stag subdues,</div> -<div class="verse">And o’er the dewy plain the panting hare pursues.”</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Mr Macgillivray, in his interesting volume on British Quadrupeds -in the Naturalist’s Library, mentions several instances -of otters having been tamed and employed in fishing. Among -others he relates that a gentleman residing in the Outer Hebrides -had one that supplied itself with food, and regularly -returned to the house. M’Diarmid, in his “Sketches from -Nature,” enumerates many others. One otter belonging to a -poor widow, “when led forth plunged into the Urr, and -brought out all the fish it could find.” Another, kept at Corsbie -House, Wigtonshire, “evinced a great fondness for gooseberries,” -fondled “about her keeper’s feet like a pup or kitten, -and even seemed inclined to salute her cheek, when permitted -to carry her freedoms so far.” A third, belonging to -Mr Montieth of Carstairs, “though he frequently stole away -at night to fish by the pale light of the moon, and associate -with his kindred by the river side, his master of course was -too generous to find any fault with his peculiar mode of spending -his evening hours. In the morning he was always at his -post in the kennel, and no animal understood better the secret -of ‘keeping his own side of the house.’ Indeed his pugnacity -in this respect gave him a great lift in the favour of the gamekeeper, -who talked of his feats wherever he went, and averred -besides, that if the best cur that ever ran ‘only daured to girn’ -at his protegé, he would soon ‘mak his teeth meet through -him.’ To mankind, however, he was much more civil, and -allowed himself to be gently lifted by the tail, though he objected -to any interference with his snout, which is probably -with him the seat of honour.”</p> - -<p>Mr Glennon, of Suffolk-street, Dublin, informs me that Mr -Murray, gamekeeper to his Grace the Duke of Leinster, has -a tame otter, which enters the water to fish when desired, and -lays whatever he catches with due submission at his master’s -feet. Mr Glennon further observes, that the affection for his -owner which this animal exhibits is equal or even superior to that -of the most faithful dog. The creature follows him wherever -he goes, will suffer him to lift him up by the tail and carry him -under his arm just as good-humouredly as would a dog, will -spring to his knee when he sits at home, and seems in fact -never happy but when in his company. This otter is well -able to take care of himself, and fearlessly repels the impertinent -advances of the dogs: with such, however, as treat him -with fitting respect, he is on excellent terms. Sometimes Mr -Murray will hide himself from this animal, which will immediately, -on being set at liberty, search for him with the -greatest anxiety, running like a terrier dog by the scent. Mr -Glennon assures me that he has frequently seen the animal -thus trace the footsteps of its master for a considerable distance -across several fields, and that too with such precision -as never in any instance to fail of finding him.</p> - -<p>I myself had once a tame otter, with a detail of whose habits -and manners I shall now conclude this article. When I first -obtained the animal she was very young, and not more than -sixteen inches in length: young as she was, she was very -fierce, and would bite viciously if any one put his hand near -the nest of straw in which she was kept. As she grew a little -older, however, she became more familiarized to the approaches -of human beings, and would suffer herself to be gently stroked -upon the back or head; when tired of being caressed, she -would growl in a peculiar manner, and presently use her -sharp teeth if the warning to let her alone were not attended -to. In one respect the manners of this animal presented a -striking contrast to the accounts I had read and heard of other -tame individuals. She evinced no particular affection for me; -she grew tame certainly, but her tameness was rather of a -general than of an exclusive character: unlike other wild animals -which I had at different times succeeded in domesticating, this -creature testified no particular gratitude to her master, and -whoever fed her, or set her at liberty, was her favourite for the -time being. She preferred fish to any other diet, and eagerly -devoured all descriptions, whether taken in fresh or salt -water, though she certainly preferred the former. She would -seize the fish between her fore paws, hold it firmly on the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> -ground, and devour it downwards to the tail, which with the -head the dainty animal rejected. When fish could not be -procured, she would eat, but sparingly, of bread and milk, as -well as the lean of raw meat; fat she could on no account be -prevailed upon to touch.</p> - -<p>Towards other animals my otter for a long period maintained -an appearance of perfect indifference. If a dog approached -her suddenly, she would utter a sharp, whistling -noise, and betake herself to some place of safety: if pursued, -she would turn and show fight. If the dog exhibited no symptoms -of hostility, she would presently return to her place at -the fireside, where she would lie basking for hours at a time.</p> - -<p>When I first obtained this animal, there was no water sufficiently -near to where I lived in which I could give her an -occasional bath; and being apprehensive, that, if entirely -deprived of an element in which nature had designed her to -pass so considerable a portion of her existence, she would -languish and die, I allowed her a tub as a substitute for her -native river; and in this she plunged and swam with much -apparent delight. It was in this manner that I became acquainted -with the curious fact, that the otter, when passing -along beneath the surface of the water, does not usually -accomplish its object by swimming, but by walking along the -bottom, which it can do as securely and with as much rapidity -as it can run on dry land.</p> - -<p>After having had my otter about a year, I changed my -residence to another quarter of the town, and the stream well -known to all who have seen Edinburgh as the “Water of -Leith,” flowed past the rear of the house. The creature being -by this time so tame as to be allowed perfect liberty, I took it -down one evening to the river, and permitted it to disport itself -for the first time since its capture in a deep and open stream. -The animal was delighted with the new and refreshing enjoyment, -and I found that a daily swim in the river greatly conduced -to its health and happiness. I would sometimes walk for -nearly a mile along the bank, and the happy and frolicsome -creature would accompany me by water, and that too so -rapidly that I could not even by very smart walking keep -pace with it. On some occasions it caught small fish, such as -minnows, eels, and occasionally a trout of inconsiderable -size. When it was only a minnow or a small eel which it -caught, it would devour it in the water, putting its head for -that purpose above the surface; when, however, it had made -a trout its prey, it would come to shore, and devour it more -at leisure. I strove very assiduously to train this otter to -fish for me, as I had heard they have sometimes been taught -to do; but I never could succeed in this attempt, nor could I -even prevail upon the animal to give me up at any time the -fish which she had taken: the moment I approached her to do -so, as if suspecting my intention, she would at once take to -the water, and, crossing to the other side of the stream, devour -her prey in security. This difficulty in training I impute to -the animal’s want of an individual affection for me, for it was -not affection, but her own pleasure, which induced her to follow -me down the stream; and she would with equal willingness -follow any other person who happened to release her -from her box. This absence of affection was probably nothing -more than peculiarity of disposition in this individual, there -being numerous instances of a contrary nature upon record.</p> - -<p>Although this otter failed to exhibit those affectionate -traits of character which have displayed themselves in other -individuals of her tribe towards the human species, she was -by no means of a cold or unsocial disposition towards some of -my smaller domestic animals. With an Angora cat she soon -after I got her formed a very close friendship, and when in -the house was unhappy when not in the company of her friend. -I had one day an opportunity of witnessing a singular display -of attachment on the part of this otter towards the cat:—A -little terrier dog attacked the latter as she lay by the fire, and -driving her thence, pursued her under the table, where she -stood on her defence, spitting and setting up her back in -defiance: at this instant the otter entered the apartment, and -no sooner did she perceive what was going on, than she flew -with much fury and bitterness upon the dog, seized him by the -face with her teeth, and would doubtless have inflicted a severe -chastisement upon him, had I not hastened to the rescue, and, -separating the combatants, expelled the terrier from the room.</p> - -<p>When permitted to wander in the garden, this otter would -search for grubs, worms, and snails, which she would eat with -much apparent relish, detaching the latter from their shell -with surprising quickness and dexterity. She would likewise -mount upon the chairs at the window, and catch and eat flies—a -practice which I have not as yet seen recorded in the -natural history of this animal. I had this otter in my possession -nearly two years, and have in the above sketch mentioned -only a few of its most striking peculiarities. Did I not fear -encroaching on space which is perhaps the property of another -contributor, I could have carried its history to a much -greater length.</p> - -<p class="right">H. D. R.</p> - -<h2 class="gap4">RANDOM SKETCHES—No. II.<br /> -<span class="smaller">AN AMERICAN NOBLEMAN.</span></h2> - -<p>There reached our city, on the morning of the 29th day of -July, and sailed from it on the night of the 31st, the most -<em>remarkable</em> person perhaps by whom our shores have been -lately visited. Were we to second our own feelings, we would -apply a higher epithet to William Lloyd Garrison, but we -have chosen one in which we are persuaded all parties would -agree who partook of his intercourse, however much they -may differ from each other and from him in principle and in -practice. The object of this short paper is to leave on the -pages of our literature some record of an extraordinary individual, -who is a literary man himself, being the editor and -proprietor of a successful newspaper published at Boston in -Massachusetts; but his name may be best recommended to -our readers in connection with that of the well-known George -Thompson, whose eloquence was so powerful an auxiliary to -the unnumbered petitions which at length wrung from our -legislature the just but expensive emancipation of the West -Indian negroes. Community of action and of suffering, as -pleaders for the rights of the black and coloured population of -the United States, has rendered them bosom friends, and -each has a child called after the name of the other. Thompson -is now a denizen of the United Kingdom; but while we -write, Garrison is crossing the broad Atlantic to encounter -new dangers: comparatively safe at home, his life is forfeited -whenever he ventures to pass the moral line of demarcation -which separates the free from the slave states—forfeited so -surely as there is a rifle in Kentucky or a bowie knife in -Alabama.</p> - -<p>We have set Garrison down as “an American nobleman,” -and the “peerage” in which we look for his titles and dignities -is “The Martyr Age of the United States of America,” -by Harriet Martineau—a writer to whom none will deny the -possession of discrimination, which is all we contend for. -“William Lloyd Garrison is one of God’s nobility—the head -of the moral aristocracy, whose prerogatives we are contemplating. -It is not only that he is invulnerable to injury—that he -early got the world under his feet in a way which it would have -made Zeno stroke his beard with a complacency to witness; -but that in his meekness, his sympathies, his self-forgetfulness, -he appears ‘covered all over with the stars and orders’ -of the spiritual realm whence he derives his dignities and his -powers. At present he is a marked man wherever he turns. -The faces of his friends brighten when his step is heard: the -people of colour almost kneel to him; and the rest of society -jeers, pelts, and execrates him. Amidst all this, his gladsome -life rolls on, ‘too busy to be anxious, and too loving to be -sad.’ He springs from his bed singing at sunrise: and if -during the day tears should cloud his serenity, they are never -shed for himself. His countenance of steady compassion gives -hope to the oppressed, who look to him as the Jews looked -to Moses. It was this serene countenance, saint-like in its -earnestness and purity, that a man bought at a print-shop, -where it was exposed without a name, and hung up as the -most apostolic face he ever saw. It does not alter the case -that the man took it out of the frame, and hid it when he -found that it was Garrison who had been adorning his -parlour.” And he can be no common man of whom it is -recorded in the work to which we have already alluded, that, -on starting a newspaper for the advocacy of abolition principles, -“Garrison and his friend Knapp, a printer, were ere -long living in a garret, on bread and water, expending all -their spare earnings and time on the publication, and that -when it sold particularly well (says Knapp), we treated -ourselves with a bowl of milk.”—<cite>The Martyr Age of the -United States of America</cite>, p. 5.</p> - -<p>As we are not writing his memoir, we refer such of our -readers as may be curious to inquire further into the subject -to the pamphlet just cited, and to the chapter headed “Garrison,” -in the work on America by the same writer. To one -extraordinary feature of his character, however, we cannot -forbear adverting. He belongs to a society instituted for the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> -apparently negative purpose of <em>non-resistance</em>, and is therefore -the safest of all antagonists. Buffet as you list the head -and sides of W. L. Garrison, and you receive no buffet in return. -That this is owing to no deficiency of personal courage, -admits of demonstration. Neither the prison into which he -was cast when a mere lad in one state, the price set on his -head in another, nor the tar-kettle to which he would on one -occasion have been dragged but for a stout arm that came to -his rescue, has been able to make Garrison swerve from what -he considers to be his line of duty. Another cause of this -disposition to passive endurance must be sought, and it is -easily found: <em>he is in love</em>—deeply in love with all mankind. -His principle is to “resist not evil;” and he acts upon it to -the fullest extent. In fact, he appears to be several centuries -in advance of his time, and to live in a millennium of his own -creating.</p> - -<p>We shall only add, that the effect which this remarkable man -produced on the minds of those who companied with him while -in Dublin, was of a very peculiar nature. Among these were -persons of various sects and parties, and of all varieties of -temperament, but nearly all seemed to concur in their estimate -of his character. Though many seemed to think that -he carried out the great principle of love to an unnecessary -extent, none seemed able to gainsay his reasonings. Here -and there tears were seen to start, not called forth by any -sublime sentiment or tender emotion to which he had given -words at the moment, but educed as it were by the abstract -contemplation of the image of intense virtue which he represented; -and most agreed in the opinion, that of all individuals -with whom they had ever been acquainted, he was the one of -whom it could be with most justice asserted, that none could -hold much intercourse with him without becoming better. His -Dublin host sailed to Liverpool on Monday evening for the -mere purpose of enjoying his company for three hours more, -which was all the arrangements the Boston steamer would -permit, in which he was to leave Liverpool on Tuesday.</p> - -<p>It would be an act of great injustice to close this article -without making some mention of Garrison’s congenial friend -and companion Nathaniel Peabody Rogers of Plymouth, in -New Hampshire, also the editor and proprietor of a newspaper, -of whom, however, we shall only say, that if (as the -phrase goes) <em>anything happened</em> to W. L. Garrison, he is the -man who would be ready to occupy his place in the admiration -and execration of America.</p> - -<p class="right">G. D.</p> - -<p class="gap4"><span class="smcap">Time.</span>—Time is the most undefinable yet most paradoxical -of things: the past is gone, the future is not come, and the -present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, -and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires. -Time is the measure of all things, but is itself immeasurable, -and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. -Like space, it is incomprehensible, because it has no limit, and -it would be still more so, if it had. It is more in its source -than the Nile, and its termination, than the Niger; and advances -like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. -It gives wings of lightning to pleasure, but feet of lead -to pain, and lends expectation a curb, but enjoyment a spur. -It robs beauty of her charms, to bestow them on her picture, -and builds a monument to merit, but denies it a house; it is -the transient and deceitful flatterer of falsehood, but the tried -and final friend of truth. Time is the most subtle, yet the -most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing, -is permitted to take all, nor can it be satisfied until it -has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly -flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although -it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. -Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the -stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counsellor of the wise, -bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the -other; like Cassandra, it warns us with a voice that even the -sages discredit too long, and the silliest believe too late. Wisdom -walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind -it; he that has made it his friend, will have little to fear -from his enemies; but he that has made it his enemy, will have -little to hope from his friends.—<cite>Burn’s Youthful Piety.</cite></p> - -<p class="gap4"><span class="smcap">Diffidence.</span>—A man gets along faster with a sensible married -woman in hours than with a young girl in whole days. -It is next to impossible to make them talk, or to reach them. -They are like a green walnut: there are half a dozen outer -coats to be pulled off, one by one and slowly, before you reach -the kernel of their characters.</p> - -<h2 class="gap4">APOLOGUES AND FABLES,<br /> -<span class="smaller">IN PROSE AND VERSE, FROM THE GERMAN AND OTHER LANGUAGES.</span></h2> - -<h3>No. IV.—THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE.<br /> -<span class="smaller">A TRANSLATION FROM GOETHE.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Joyous with youth, an Eagle spread his pinions</div> -<div class="verse">One sunny summer day,</div> -<div class="verse">And through the wilderness of Air’s dominions</div> -<div class="verse">Arose in quest of prey,</div> -<div class="verse">When, lo! the forest-ranger’s musquet roared,</div> -<div class="verse">And struck him as he soared,</div> -<div class="verse">Shattering the tendons of one buoyant wing,</div> -<div class="verse">And down to earth he fell, poor wounded thing!</div> -<div class="verse">Deep in the hollow of a grassy grove,</div> -<div class="verse">Where sleepy myrtles bloomed, and dark boughs wove</div> -<div class="verse">A trellis-curtain to shut out the sun,</div> -<div class="verse">He lay for three long days, with none</div> -<div class="verse">To tend him in that lowly lair,</div> -<div class="verse">And fed for three long nights upon his heart’s despair!</div> -<div class="verse">All-healing Nature brought at length</div> -<div class="verse">Relief at least from agonizing pain,</div> -<div class="verse">And some return of youthful strength.</div> -<div class="verse">Feebly he leaves his couch and crawls along,</div> -<div class="verse">And tries to raise his wing—alas! in vain—</div> -<div class="verse">The glory has departed from the Strong,</div> -<div class="verse">And henceforth he can only hope to gain</div> -<div class="verse">A mean prey from the surface of that earth</div> -<div class="verse">Which gives the worm and beetle birth.</div> -<div class="verse">In mournful mood he rests beside a stream;</div> -<div class="verse">He looks up towards the tall majestic trees</div> -<div class="verse">Whose tops are waving to the mountain-breeze;</div> -<div class="verse">He sees the sun’s unconquerable beam</div> -<div class="verse">Shine forth; he gazes on his native skies,</div> -<div class="verse">And tears gush from his eyes.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">While Sorrow thus oppressed the noble Bird,</div> -<div class="verse">A rustling sound was heard—</div> -<div class="verse">A flutter as of soft wings through the grove—</div> -<div class="verse">And presently a Turtle-Dove</div> -<div class="verse">Alighted on a myrtle-bough anear.</div> -<div class="verse">He saw the Eagle droop his kingly head;</div> -<div class="verse">He saw tear after tear</div> -<div class="verse">Fall from his eyes into the dark rill under,</div> -<div class="verse">And sentiments of Pity, blent with Wonder,</div> -<div class="verse">Troubled his tender breast. My friend, he said,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou grievest! What has made thee grieve?</div> -<div class="verse">Thou showest thy wing—Ah! thou art maimed for life!</div> -<div class="verse">Well! what of that? Thou shouldst rejoice to leave</div> -<div class="verse">A world whose very pleasures most be won by Strife!</div> -<div class="verse">For, hast thou not around thee here</div> -<div class="verse">All blessings that can make Existence dear?</div> -<div class="verse">When high the noontide sunbeam burns,</div> -<div class="verse">Yield not these latticed walls a soothing shade?</div> -<div class="verse">When starry Night again returns,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth not her lamp light up this pleasant glade?</div> -<div class="verse">The soft winds bring thee odours from yon orange bowers;</div> -<div class="verse">Almost thy very path lies over flowers!</div> -<div class="verse">The trees around thee, the rich earth below,</div> -<div class="verse">Teem with luxuriance of sweet fruits for food;</div> -<div class="verse">The rapid and resounding flood</div> -<div class="verse">That rushes downward from the mountain</div> -<div class="verse">Flows here, will here for ever flow,</div> -<div class="verse">Diminished to a silver fountain</div> -<div class="verse">That sings its way o’er golden sands,</div> -<div class="verse">Fringed by the lily and young violet.</div> -<div class="verse">Here hast thou all a placid soul demands!</div> -<div class="verse">What wouldst thou more? Or, canst thou still regret</div> -<div class="verse">A barren world, which only lures and juggles</div> -<div class="verse">Its dupes to leave them doubly sad and lonely?</div> -<div class="verse">My friend! Mind was not made to spend itself in struggles!</div> -<div class="verse">True Happiness lies in Contentment only,</div> -<div class="verse">And true Contentment ever dwells apart</div> -<div class="verse">From Competition and Ambition—brooks</div> -<div class="verse">All wants—is rich though poor, and strong when weakest!</div> -<div class="verse">Ah, Wise One! spake the Eagle—and his looks</div> -<div class="verse">Betrayed the unaltered anguish of his heart—</div> -<div class="verse">Ah, Wisdom! ever thus, and thus in vain, thou speakest!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse right">M.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Printed and published every Saturday by GUNN and CAMERON, No. 6, -Church Lane, College Green, Dublin, and sold by all Booksellers.</p> - -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. -18, October 31, 1840, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL *** - -***** This file should be named 54290-h.htm or 54290-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/4/2/9/54290/ - -Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from -images generously made available by JSTOR www.jstor.org) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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