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46 EGAN's KILKENNY GUIDE.Only now the imminent danger became apparent. Wouldthe animal first clear the screen, then rush through thewindow on to the street, at a distance of sixty feet below.Servants shrieked ; the mare's own groom offered his lastentreaty to stop his master. All to no purpose. Thecourse was clear—away !—and the house reverberated fromthe shock. The mare well jumped it-r-but the stake—itwas not won ; she touched the screen in passing.Yet, what was for the risk 1 £50 for a prize ; a life inthe balance as a second stake; but the glorious prize, thefame of so unheard of a deed, was it not worth going for 1A.'ain the screen was arranged ; this time the positionchanged, so as to avoid the possibility of the animal boundingon to the street. The signal was given, and, with anoble jump, the gray mare cleared the screen, greeted withthe shouts of an alarmed and amazed audience.Bull Inn.—The only remaining ruin of the earlier innsis that which now stands at the eastern angle of Canice'sPlace; .formerly known as Bull Alley before the Corporationwidened the street here. There are to be seen at present,on the front, two stone escutcheons, one bearing the figureof a bull, and a dog pursuing a deer. The secondescutcheon bears the arms of the founder, charged, withan eagle displayed, the inscription being—"1602. Arms of Robert Joyce."This was the " Bull Inn," which, from the extent ofthe ruins, must have been a place of considerable importance.The Hole-in-tlie-Wall.—Passing from the more prosaicand tamer inns, we come to one which, in contrast, wemay call the poetic inn—the home of revelry and song,of wit and " hard going,"—when we arrive at the celebrated