This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...and soon a council assembled in his cabin to consider what measures ought to be adopted. The peasantry could not bear to give up quietly the only amusement they enjoyed during the year. "That's what comes o' the Squire's living so long in England," said Blind Barry. "I thought little good it would end in when he said, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...and soon a council assembled in his cabin to consider what measures ought to be adopted. The peasantry could not bear to give up quietly the only amusement they enjoyed during the year. "That's what comes o' the Squire's living so long in England," said Blind Barry. "I thought little good it would end in when he said, t'other day, that my cabin must be whitewashed every six months." "He threatened to turn my dunghill into the ditch," cried the wrathful piper; "but if he dares to lay his finger on it" "Don't fear," said Mickey the tailor, who possessed great reputation, both as a wit and a sage, and who did not enter regularly into the conference, but stood leaning against the door-post--"don't fear. Great men don't like to dirty their fingers with trifles." "It's long afore his uncle would have done so; but the good ould times is past, and there's no frinds for poor Ireland now," sighed Paddy Lumley, an old, white-headed man, more than eighty years of age. "It's hard, very hard, though," continued Kelly. "He knows well enough that the trifle I gets at the pathern, for my bits o' music, is all I have in the wide world to depind on for the rint; and sure it's little I picks up the counthry round to keep the skreeds on the woman and childer--God help thim!--to say nothin' o' the 'atin' and the drinkin'. But niver mind; if there's no pathern, my curse be upon him and his! May the grass, and the nettle, and the" "Asy, asy, Kelly!" cried the tailor; "asy, take it asy. Can't ye think--never despair, says I; and so I said to Jim Holloway whin his wife died: never despair, says I. He took my advice, and married agin in three weeks. Why won't one field do ye inste...
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