Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, And Local Sketches
Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, And Local Sketches
W H William Hamilton Maxwell
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" In my own case, the predisposing cause was no enig- ma. I had been one of a knot of foxhunters who, on the preceding night, had indulged in a desperate jollification. Finding a disinclination for breakfast, I repaired, contrary to my general habit, without it to the mountains. I had. exercised severely for several hours, when at once I became helpless as an infant, and sank upon a bank incapable of motion. My pony and some food were speedily obtained, and ihtfaragurta banished. But assuredly,... if unassisted, * SfnoDTmous to Neddy, t A basket Digitized by Google AN ANECDOTE. 197 I must have lain upon the heath, for I could not make the slightest exertion to get forward." ♦ ♦**## It is a lamentable fact, that the obligation of legal oath is here of trifling importance. Cases of determined per- jury occur every day ; and an adjuration upon the evan- gelists, is considered as being far inferior in solemnity, to one upon the priest's vestment. Whether there be any regular formula to. be observed in this comparative swear- ing, 1 know not ; I say comparative^ for in Ballycroy, oaths, like adjectives, have three degrees of value.
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