How matters might have terminated between him and the baronet it is out of our power to detail.
The man was at all times desperate and dreadful, where either revenge or anger was excited, especially as he labored under the superstitious impression that he was never to be hanged or perish by a violent death, a sentiment then by no means uncommon among persons of his outrageous and desperate life.

It has been observed, and with truth, that the Irish Rapparees seldom indulged in the habit of intoxication or intemperance, and this is not at all to be wondered at.

The meshes of authority were always spread for them, and the very consciousness of this fact sharpened their wits, and kept them perpetually on their guard against the possibility of arrest.

Nor was this all.

The very nature of the lawless and outrageous life they led, and their frequent exposure to danger, rendered habits of caution necessary--and those were altogether incompatible with habits of intemperance.