Shawn's exhaustion after such a struggle now rendered his situation hopeless.

He was on the point of going down when he exclaimed: "It is all in vain now; I am sinking, and me so near the only slip that is in the lake.

Finn and Oonah, save me; I am drowning." The words were scarcely out of his lips when he felt the two faithful, powerful, and noble animals, one at each side of him--seeing as they did, his sinking state--seizing him by his dress, and dragging him forward to the slip we have mentioned.

With great difficulty he got upon land, but, having done so, he sat down; and when his dogs, in the gambols of their joy at his safety, caressed him, he wept like an infant--this proscribed outlaw and tory.

He was now safe, however, and his pursuers returned in a spirit of sullen and bitter disappointment, finding that it was useless to continue the hunt any longer..