But here comes these fellows, just as they went, it seems.

Well, boys, no trail of this cunning fox ?" "Trail!" exclaimed the others.

"Gad, you might as well hunt for your grandmother's needle in a bottle of straw.

The truth is, the man's not in the country, and whoever gave the information as to the parson keeping him was some enemy of the parson's more than of Reilly's, I'll go bail.

Come, now, let us go back, and give an account of our luck, and then to our barracks." Now at this period it was usual for men who were prominent for rank and loyalty, and whose attachment to the Constitution and Government was indicated by such acts and principles as those which we have hitherto read in the life of Sir Robert.