For fine men--for men like you,' he added, laughing, 'we would go as high as a hundred.

In the old King's time we would have given a thousand for you, when he had his giant regiment that our present monarch disbanded.' 'I knew one of them,' said I, 'who served with you: we used to call him Morgan Prussia.' 'Indeed; and who was this Morgan Prussia ?' 'Why, a huge grenadier of ours, who was somehow snapped up in Hanover by some of your recruiters.' 'The rascals!' said my friend: 'and did they dare take an Englishman ?' ''Faith this was an Irishman, and a great deal too sharp for them; as you shall hear.

Morgan was taken, then, and drafted into the giant guard, and was the biggest man almost among all the giants there.

Many of these monsters used to complain of their life, and their caning, and their long drills, and their small pay; but Morgan was not one of the grumblers.

"It's a deal better," said he, "to get fat here in Berlin, than to starve in rags in Tipperary!"' 'Where is Tipperary ?' asked my companion.
'That is exactly what Morgan's friends asked him.