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the bark

and

—

may

•oincs sat

liable



trhen, j

whole

With flung

drew his cap

1

infortunate

Along

of these islam Is are Owey,

I



parochially

iiieh

drawn

h

public

ago

rs

ndent landlord, ion to

the ami

what was the most miserable

of

Close to the shore

rid.

the

is

name from the Armada lies When, however, we say tradition, gained

li

its

ne of the Spanish

been brought forward presence of a wreck,

testimony has il

as to its asserted date


 * _;h

Connell Eoyle,

I

by

L

1

to be

down

made

it is difficult

I

still

who,

to the vessel, and cannon on the deck.

ihus extracted, each

i

i

bout ten feet long, and were at one shilling per pound I

16

travelling tinkers,

how

to sell

it

guessed,

!.

when .

Co:i

The it

crack

Sligo, off

i

the land,

known

as

than

one.

the blessings enjoyed by Innishgloria and Innishkea, two very small and rocky islets to the south, not far from Achill Island on the coast of Mayo. Innishgloria has the marvel-

property of preserving bodies without decomposing or undergoing any process of stuffing or embalming, so that people can have the satisfaction (melancholy or otherwise) of going to visit their ancestors, and finding them with hair and nails still perfect. Indeed, we are not quite sure that they are not said to grow at all events, there is a great run upon this island as a burying-place. lous

their



Innishkea, according to that most genial of

Otway, possesses a wooden idol, which brings luck to the island as long as it is writers, Caesar

a crane that has lived there safely preserved without mate or offspring for hundreds of

and, what is much more credible, a supply of the finest potheen in the G. P. Bevan. country.

years

First,



large

A NIGHT IN A SNOWDRIFT. In the following narration I have avoided I need

Council's

sterling. %

ways



guns

and

boko

—

at the cheapest

calibre of the

I*

who

In-

st<>

the brass,

iolish 'less

invoked on his enemies by means s brought down by wells, many villages to this day being fortunate enough to possess a cursing- well. This island, however, contains another stone, which appears to be much more useful in its for if any fuel which may chance to vocation ingniahed be laid on it, it is immediately rekindled. So that, on the whole, Innismurray possesses some decided advantages. But these are nothing in comparison with 1

of

stated

is

living,

—

cursmg-stones, which formerly were frequently be to this day Tt is a curious thing, that which the Irish peasantry it ions

or

i,

itself is ab-

2, 1S64.

because

I

I

Qg

in

it

is

deli-

mentioning names, dates, or places. not assign a reason ; the incidents of will

my

story

supply one. Some years ago never mind how many I was in America, employed in surveying, prior to the construction of one of those vast lines of railway which are now found of as utility for warlike as they were then int.

—

—

'

ul traffic.

had gone out from England with very few pounds in my pooket, but with I

may

1

ind,

say, with into

my

it

highly


 * lity.

work, and found


 * ve.

I

Although

I

-

thoroughly

the ocoupa-

and tometim dents inseparable from it, 1 oould h

i

with the a the onl