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Protestantism was not only the privileged, but it was also the polite, creed; the creed of the upper classes, as distinguished from the creed of the potato-diggers and the turf-cutters; a view of the matter of which distinct traces may even yet be discovered in Ireland.
"What do you mean?" demanded the first speaker, who had resumed his digging. "There be your moose, after these eighteen year!" said the other. Standing out clear of the dead forest, and staring curiously down upon the two potato-diggers, were three moose, a magnificent, black, wide-antlered bull, an ungainly brown cow, and a long-legged, long-eared calf.
Our feet were very sore that day, on account of the rain and of our not being able to keep our boots off enough each day, but we lay perfectly lifeless and did not even speak, for fear of attracting the attention of the potato-diggers. We wished it would rain and drive the potato-diggers in. But about nine o'clock a worse danger threatened us.
They were welcome to my map, because already I was thinking of making another, but I did not like to see my compass go I kept wondering how I would ever get another. There was no hostility in their attitude toward us, either from the soldiers or the civilians. The potato-diggers, mostly women, went straight back to their work as if they had done their share and now some one else could "carry on."
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