You know that every man in your uniform is a mark for the vindictive resentment of these Popish rebels." "Ah! maybe I don't know that, your honor; but you may take my word for it that I will lose little time." He then rode down a by-street, very coolly, taking the gauger's horse along with him.

The reader may remember the fable of the cat that had been transformed into a lady, and the unfortunate mouse.

The Rapparee, whose original propensities were strong as ever, could not, for the soul of him, resist the temptation of selling the horse and pocketing the amount.

He did so, and very deliberately proceeded home to his barracks, but took care to avoid any private communication with his patron for some days, lest he might question him as to what he had done with the animal.
In the meantime, this monstrous outrage upon an unoffending priest, who was a natural subject of France, perpetrated, as it was, in the open face of day, and witnessed by so many, could not, as the reader may expect, be long concealed.

It soon reached the ears of the Marquis of -- ----and his lady, who were deeply distressed at the disappearance of their aged and revered friend.