Within the enclosure, ark of refuge for settlers near and afar, was a large blockhouse wherein congregated, mingled and intermingled, ate, slept, and had their being, as diverse a gathering of humans as ever graced a single structure even in this land of myriad types.

Who did not remember him in the days of its burnings, wastings, and murders?" Grattan is, indeed, pre-eminently the Irish politician to whom other Irish politicianshowever diverse their views or convictionsturn unanimously with the common sense of admiration and homage.

But when he will take up in his hand arrows and diverse other weapons of war, and meet his foes in the field of battle, he will then remember the sufferings of his exceedingly miserable forest-life, and kill his enemies to a man: of a certainty do I anticipate this.