What a monster Bin would be in a grenadier's cap!" 'He said nothing more at the time regarding his brothers, but only sighed as if lamenting their hard fate.

However, the story was told by the sergeant to the officers, and by the officers to the King himself; and His Majesty was so inflamed by curiosity, that he actually consented to let Morgan go home in order to bring back with him his seven enormous brothers.' 'And were they as big as Morgan pretended ?' asked my comrade.

I could not help laughing at his simplicity.
'Do you suppose,' cried I, 'that Morgan ever came back?
No, no; once free, he was too wise for that.

He has bought a snug farm in Tipperary with the money that was given him to secure his brothers; and I fancy few men of the guards ever profited so much by it.' The Prussian captain laughed exceedingly at this story, said that the English were the cleverest nation in the world, and, on my setting him right, agreed that the Irish were even more so.

We rode on very well pleased with each other; for he had a thousand stories of the war to tell, of the skill and gallantry of Frederick, and the thousand escapes, and victories, and defeats scarcely less glorious than victories, through which the King had passed.