Harper's New Monthly Magazine
I have spent pleasanter, but I greatly doubt if I ever knew busier days, than those I passed at the Bishop's Palace at Killala; and now, as I look back upon the event, I can not help wondering that we could seriously have played out a farce so full of absurdity and nonsense! T...
"And so you got into the Stocks to try what it was like. Well, I can't wonder--it is a very handsome pair of Stocks," continued the Squire, with a loving look at the object of h...
2. CHAPTER XXII. THE DAY OF "CASTLEBAR.We were all occupied with our drill at daybreak on the morning of the 27th of August, when a mounted orderly arrived at full gallop, with news that our troops were in motion for...
1. CHAPTER XXI. OUR ALLIES.I have spent pleasanter, but I greatly doubt if I ever knew busier days, than those I passed at the Bishop's Palace at Killala; and now, as I look back upon the event, I can not...
4. CHAPTER II.It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Stirn was not present at the Parson's Discourse--but that valuable functionary was far otherwise engaged--indeed, during the summer months...
11. CHAPTER IX."_Per Bacco!_" said Dr. Riccabocca, putting his hand on Lenny's shoulder, and bending down to look into his face--"_Per Bacco!_ my young friend, do you sit here from choice or n...
3. BOOK III.--INITIAL CHAPTER:--SHOWING HOW MY NOVEL CAME TO BE CALLED "MYHere I trembled; but the ladies, Heaven bless them! had taken Parson Dale under their special protection; and, observing that my father was puckering up his brows critically, th...
12. CHAPTER X.The dullest dog that ever wrote a novel (and, _entre nous_, reader--but let it go no farther--we have a good many dogs among the fraternity that are not Munitos),[18] might have...
13. CHAPTER XI.Dr. Riccabocca, awakened out of his reverie by the sound of footsteps--was still so little sensible of the indignity of his position, that he enjoyed exceedingly and with all th...
8. CHAPTER VI.If, in the simplicity of his heart, and the crudeness of his experience, Lenny Fairfield had conceived it probable that Mr. Stirn would address to him some words in approbation...
5. CHAPTER III.Aid me, O ye Nine! whom the incomparable Persius satirized his contemporaries for invoking, and then, all of a sudden, invoked on his own behalf--aid me to describe that famous...
10. CHAPTER VIII.This time Mr. Sprott was without his donkey; for, it being Sunday, it is to be presumed that the donkey was enjoying his Sabbath on the Common. The tinker was in his Sunday's be...
9. CHAPTER VII.Unaffectedly I say it--upon the honor of a gentleman, and the reputation of an author, unaffectedly I say it--no words of mine can do justice to the sensations experienced by Le...
6. CHAPTER IV.Just at that precise moment, who should appear but Mr. Stirn! For, in fact, being extremely anxious to get Lenny into disgrace, he had hoped that he should have found the young...
7. CHAPTER V.Randal Leslie had a very long walk home: he was bruised and sore from head to foot, and his mind was still more sore and more bruised than his body. But if Randal Leslie had res...