A brave fellow that son of Wales--but I had once a brother who could do more and better than this, but the grave has closed over him, as over the gallant Welshman of yore; there are now but two that remember him--the one who bore him, and the being who was nurtured at the same breast.

He was taken, and I was left!--Truly the ways of Providence are inscrutable.
"You seem to be very comfortable, John," said I, looking around the room and at the various objects which I have described above: "you have a good roof over your head, and have all your things about you." "Yes, I am very comfortable, George, in many respects; I am, moreover, independent, and feel myself a man for the first time in my life--independent, did I say ?--that's not the word, I am something much higher than that; here am I, not sixteen yet, a person in authority, like the centurion in the book there, with twenty Englishmen under me, worth a whole legion of his men, and that fine fellow Bagg to wait upon me, and take my orders.

Oh! these last six weeks have passed like hours of heaven." "But your time must frequently hang heavy on your hands; this is a strange wild place, and you must be very solitary ?" "I am never solitary; I have, as you see, all my things about me, and there is plenty of company below stairs.

Not that I mix with the soldiers; if I did, good-bye to my authority; but when I am alone I can hear all their discourse through the planks, and I often laugh to myself at the funny things they say." "And have you any acquaintance here ?" "The very best; much better than the Colonel and the rest, at their grand Templemore; I had never so many in my whole life before.

One has just left me, a gentleman who lives at a distance across the bog; he comes to talk with me about Greek, and the Odyssey, for he is a very learned man, and understands the old Irish, and various other strange languages.