The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-04
TIE PRIEST HUNTER,
An ssh Tale of the Penal Times.
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CHAPTER xXXvI.
By NJ. ARcHDEAcoN, ESQ.

800 CHAPTER XXXvI.
Early in the spring, after his sister and cou
SIN, with their companions, had departed fro1
their native land, and scarcely three month
after he had made the sale to Baker, Sir Rober
was pursuing the fox, mounted on o noble bn
fiery and intractable hunter The day wa,
wet and, before mounting, he had SWALLOWED
considerable quantity of brandy, SO that be.
tween the excitement of the liquor and the ex
conded by his fierce and powerful steed, he
rode more like the wild hunter of German SUI
perstition than a niessofeasrtal mould.
walls, ana hedges, ana trenches We're swept
was perfect swamp, and powerful was the
action, and Immense the endurance of the ami
NAL, bis powers were overtasked. Towards
the close of the chase, which had been a most
exciting one, q high and heavy gate interviewed
between the hounds, which h ad lust brou pht
the victim to stand, and Sir Robert, with the
The latter Immediately proceeded to search for
some facile spot for their wearied horses to
pass the wall; but he dashed his own, without
an instant's pause, at the gate itself. The
tired animal, for the first time during the day.
baked, as if for q warming; but a shout of de-
rision rung, OF seemed to ring in the doomed
bad ears ggnf deep the spurs which
unfortunate animal bounded aloft, but its OK
hausted strength, and the softness of the
ground it rose from, rendered it unable to
clear the gate, sand, with the fearful scream
uttered by Horse in mortal agony, it was i'm
paled on the gate, whilst it's rider was flung on
! nis head against large and jagged rock at
Netant, without having had time to pray, in
word or thought, to his so often and so griev-
ously offended Creator.
His wake and interrnent were strikinp illus-
tratons of the times aud the character of the
conformist himself Descended from long
line of ancestry, and but q few hours before
the proprietor of thousands of rich acres, with
his residence Abounding in all necessaries, it |
was scarcely with common decency the rites |
of "laying out the" the corpse was performed. |
ttnrf, Io1~n
household. On the contrary, Immediately after
the body had been borne into the hail. o scene
Pof pillage, and drunkenness, and uproar COM
smenced, in striking and fearful contrast with
the presence of the silent dead Money, trink-
etc, apparel-every article that could be COM
pressed into small compass, was grasped at
and battled for. The cellar was, of course, en-
.&ered, and wine and brandy flowed about like
streams after summer rains.
Bryan Gaven and Rose Scanlan (once before
alluded to in these pages) bold in state of
half intoxication, were in the act of scuffling
for ring which fha deceased (the damsel in
sisted hafi sd to give her, when Mr..
10 prevent the duel-entered those walls, con-
taminated for months by every species of vice
and folly. He was accompanied by his curate
and Aaron Andrews, whom he had called upon {
Tor that purpose; and, with them, he proceeded
30 afix seals to the doors and presses to pre-
rent further spoliation, as well to give or I
Dixon" said the rector solelhnly, 'affords mel
1ncholy and striking proof how little acces-
On of real strength there is to us in CONVEX {
ON, unless it arise from conviction, and Y
through unworldly motives" c
ray, but the disrespect paid the remains of
goddess sinner reared too, in the lap of idol t
~, cannot surely, sir, be adduced a reason a
the liberation of that creed, from which, f
pbtless sprung all his vices and crimes; and n
n the professors OF which, have reason to o
wv, can be expected nothing but deceit and u
chery," the curate added with bitter en- c
sis; as the drenching and the loss of his n
fe, at the beach near Kilglass, rose to his q