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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.1864 Excerpt: ... again, so that he could by no means go after them. Then they went on, and came to the King's highway again, and so were safe, because they were out of his jurisdiction. IRISH BUTTER. (martinead.) Hebe, then, are we brought round to so near home as the Kerry hills, and the pastures of Cork and Limerick. Let us take a run over those hills, and see what is doing. "We suppose we shall find the cows tenderly cared for, judging by the solicitude shown for yonder pig. His owner's dwelling is a mud cabin, dark except where the decayed thatch lets in the light, and all going to melt into a slough apparently with the first rain; whereas, the pig's house is a truly comfortable affair. It is built against the cabin, in the very middle, for show. Its stone walls are white-washed, its roof is slated, its entrance is arched. Piggie himself is allowed great liberty. He may roam where he will, with the one condition that he will wear a man's hat, not on his head, but over his face, the crown being cut to allow him to feed. Thus veiled below the eyes, he may wander where he will, unable as he is to root up the potatoes or poke his snout in where he has no business. If such is the care taken of the pig, what may we not look for in regard to the cows? On we go to see. Who is this that wants us to stop? Why does he leave his flock of sheep and hang upon our car, and rain a shower of words on us passing travellers? for he is no beggar. He entreats us, and will not take a refusal, to buy then and there, on our car and on the instant, thirty-four lambs, which he declares we shall have cheap. We have refused, in our time, to purchase and carry away in the high street of a town, a barrel of red herrings; also a mattress. _ It seems to us even more inconvenient to carry away thirty-f...
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