'Tis probable that I should have run through the little property as he did in my place, and I should have had to begin a year or two later the life I have been leading ever since I was compelled to leave Ireland.

My lad, I have been in every service; and, between ourselves, owe money in every capital in Europe.

I made a campaign or two with the Pandours under Austrian Trenck.

I was captain in the Guard of His Holiness the Pope, I made the campaign of Scotland with the Prince of Wales--a bad fellow, my dear, caring more for his mistress and his brandy-bottle than for the crowns of the three kingdoms.

I have served in Spain and in Piedmont; but I have been a rolling stone, my good fellow.