Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry. By W. Carleton, Volume 11864 |
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Page 27 - that that's the fashion at present among my tribe ; sure all my brother puppies smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, you know.
Page 405 - Some saw his skill tried on a horse which could never before be brought to stand for a smith to shoe him. The day after Sullivan's half-hour lecture I went, not without some incredulity, to the smith's shop, with many other curious spectators, where we were eye-witnesses of the complete success of his art. This, too, had been a troop-horse; and it was supposed, not without reason, that after regimental discipline had failed no other would be found availing. I observed that the animal seemed afraid...
Page 405 - I believe, a great part of his art consisted; though the circumstance of the tete-a-tete shows that upon particular occasions something more must have been added to it. A faculty like this would in other hands have made a fortune, and...
Page 269 - Findramore was situated at the foot of a long green hill, the outline of which formed a low arch as it rose to the eye against the horizon. This hill was studded with clumps of beeches, and sometimes enclosed as a meadow.
Page 270 - ... or wheaten bread, which the good wife is baking on the griddle, unpleasant to your nostrils ; nor would the bubbling of a large pot, in which you might see, should you chance to enter, a prodigious square of fat, yellow, and almost transparent bacon tumbling about...
Page 71 - ... twas the same way with Mary : many a neighbour's daughter, that she didn't do more nor know by eyesight, maybe, would come up and wish her happiness in the same manner, and she would say to me, ' Shane, avourneen, that's such a man's daughter — they're dacent friendly people, and we caпЧ do less nor give her a glass.
Page 293 - ... from under his left arm. He then comes up to the master, catches his forelock with finger and thumb, and bobs down his head, by way of making him a bow, and goes to his seat. Along the walls on the ground is a series of round stones, some of them capped with a straw collar or hassock, on which the boys sit ; others have bosses, and many of them hobs — a light but compact kind of boggy substance found in the mountains. On these several of them sit ; the greater number of them, however, have...
Page 140 - Poor girl ! she is still living ; but from that moment to this, she has never opened her lips to mortal. She is, indeed, a fair ruin, but silent, melancholy, and beautiful as the moon in the summer heaven. Poor Rose Galh ! you, and many a mother, and father, and wife, and orphan, have had reason to maledict the bloody Battles of the Factions !
Page 293 - ... left arm. He then comes up to the master, catches his forelock with finger and thumb, and bobs down his head, by way of making him a bow, and goes to his seat. Along the walls on the ground is a series of round stones, some of them capped with a straw collar or hassock, on which the boys sit ; others have bosses, and many of them hobs — a light but compact kind of boggy substance found in the mountains. On these several of them sit ; the greater number of them, however, have no seats whatever,...
Page 112 - s the blackguard Connells now? ' — and so on, till flesh and blood couldn't stand it. " In the course of time, the whole country was turned against them; for no crowd could get together in which they didn't kick up a row, nor a bit of stray fighting couldn't be, but...