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The inhabitants of Cruhan-beg who lived, as they said themselves, 'beyond the river' strenuously refused to pay any rent for their hovels; while 'the cis-Brusnaites, as they may be termed, demeaned themselves to the condition of tenants in so far as to acknowledge the obligation of rent, though the oldest inhabitant vowed he had never seen a receipt in his life, nor had the very least conception of a gale-day.
A small branch of the well-known bog-stream, the 'Brusna, divided one part of the village from the other, and between these two settlements so separated there raged a most rancorous hatred and jealousy, and Cruhan-beg, as the smaller collection of hovels was called, detested Cruhan-bawn with an intensity of dislike that might have sufficed for a national antipathy, where race, language, and traditions had contributed their aids to the animosity.
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