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 Jack a visit as the chief living lion of Connemara, and was received with hearty goodnature; and he tells us "room was found on the table for a double-sized flagon of whiskey, and water appeared to be a beverage not much in repute." But this was some years ago, when Jack was a jolly devil-may-care fellow; but having kept the inn at Leenane, and perhaps attending more to "the smallest tastotaste [sic] in life of whiskey” rather than to the profit and loss of the concern, "them murthering thaives," as he styles the lawyers, occasioned him to vacatovacate [sic] the premises, and settle down as a small farmer.

When Barrow visited him in 1835, hohe [sic] found Jack a Temperance man, and hohe [sic] could only with difficulty persuadopersuade [sic] him to takotake [sic] a single glass to welcome his arrival.

In person, Jack does no discredit to his "big" family, to be surosure [sic] he is not quite so large as

but he is a very broad, strong fellow, some six feet odd in height, and of greater breadth in proportion than is generally seen; and he has "a fine boy", of somosome [sic] five-and-twenty years of age, who is still taller than himself, so that the family credit is well kept up. Jack, in make, and sometimes in look, reminds one of John Reeve on a larger scale; he is always goodnatured and friendly, and receives the visit of strangers beneath his humble roof with the natural courtesy of "a rale ould Irish gentleman." Many of all grades visit Jack, who is as well known in Connemara as its lakes and mountains.

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