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For in its way the picture is a masterpiece. There lies Jean Barrad, drummer, aged fourteen, slain in La Vendée, a true patriot, who, while his life-blood flowed away, pressed the tricolor cockade to his heart, and murmured 'Liberty! David has treated his subject classically.
He wore an old barrad of the day, the greasy top of which fell down upon the collar of his old cloak, and over his shoulder was a bag which, from its appearance, must have contained something not very weighty, as he walked on without seeming to travel as a man who carried a burden. He had a huge staff in his right hand, the left having a hold of his bag.
One evening, about this time, Caterine Collins was on her way home to Rathfillan, I when, on crossing a piece of bleak moor adjacent to the town, a powerful young fellow, dressed in the truis, cloak, and barrad of the period, started up from a clump of furze bushes, and addressed her as follows: "Caterine," said he, "are you in a hurry?"
Many nay, most, if not all of them, were bitter enemies to the law, which rendered it penal for them to wear their glibs, and in consequence most of those present had them in full perfection around their heads, over which was worn the barrad or Irish cap, which, however, was then beginning to fall into desuetude.
"Unquestionably; but you know you will have the government reward besides." "Well, then, here goes. I cannot bring my carbine with me; but even so we will have a tug for it with my skean." He threw off his coat and barrad, and immediately plunged in and swam with astonishing rapidity towards the spot where Shawn and the dogs the latter still engaged in their ferocious contest were in the lake.
He wore a kind of cap or barrad, which, as well as his cloak, could, by being turned inside out, instantly change his whole appearance, and mislead his pursuers for he was the outlaw.
This, and the originality of his appearance, excited Woodward's curiosity, and he resolved to speak to him. "Well, my good old man, what may you be carrying in the bag?" The man looked at him respectfully, and raising his hand and staff, touched his barrad, and replied: "A few yarribs, your honor." "Yarribs? What the deuce is that?"
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