IRISH GALLANTRY.
Fon a chivalrous people—and are they not chivalrous I—the Irish have strange ideas as to the employment of their women. The Irish Felon, descanting on war with England, finds this congenial eMpleyment for the ladies— "Let them procure a number of hoops, the larger the better, three or four feet in diameter if possible, but even those on common herring-barrels would do if the large ones could not be procured—etill we say, if possible get the larger ones: the hoop should then be covered with hemp or tow loosely twisted round them, or even old cotton raga would do. (Linen should always be kept for the hospitals for the wounded.) Let them next procure a basin, filled with oil of turpentine, or tail but the turpentine is far preferable: the hoop should then be placed on the basin and turned round until the tow is fully impregnated with the turpentine. When thus prepared, the hoop would be fit for the last operation—namely, setting fire to it, and throwing it horizontally on the red coats; whose bayonets would very conveniently serve to catch it, and thus allow it to pass over their necks, when it would do its business. The great advantage of large hoops over small ones is quite apparent, as the former would promote fraternization between two or more of the enemy, by encircling them."
Dr. Kitchener quotes an old recipe for roasting a goose alive : the Irish Felon makes a part of female education to learn how to roast soldiers. It is evident that the Irish use English words in a peculiar and Celtic sense. For example, they describe their women as " gentle" ; but in the Celtic sense, it appears, " gentleness" is a quality not incompatible with throwing firebrands of a peculiarly complex and murderous kind—gentleness is not incompatible with assassination and a brutal kind of Ribandism. The English
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