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Nobody ever suspected that she was a clean bred thing own sister to Jenny, that won the Corinthians, and ran second to Giles for the Riddlesworth but so she was, and a better bred mare never leaped the pound in Ballinasloe.
Moore is the name, but people always call him Stewart Moore; just say that in a loud clear voice, and you'll soon have him." With the most profuse protestations of gratitude and promises of pork "a discretion," if I ever sojourned at Ballinasloe, my fair friend proceeded to follow my advice, and descended to the cabin.
Atock said the old bird had perched there during all his time; and as long as I visited Ballinasloe a period of nearly twenty years, he regularly reappeared. To be able once a year to entertain friends and customers of the company was one of the reasons, probably the main reason, why the directors passed the fair week at Ballinasloe.
"By this time I had opened the envelope and read my own name at full length as junior counsel in the important case of Monaghan v. M'Shean, to be tried in the Record Court at Ballinasloe. 'That will do, said I, flinging it on the bed with a careless air, as if it were a very every-day matter with me.
Barry indulged in his usual volubility of expletives; expressed his fixed intention of exterminating the Kellys; declared, with many asseverations, his conviction that his sister was a lunatic; swore, by everything under, in, and above the earth, that he would have her shut up in the Lunatic Asylum in Ballinasloe, in the teeth of the Lord Chancellor and all the other lawyers in Ireland; cursed the shades of his father, deeply and copiously; assured Daly that he was only prevented from recovering his own property by the weakness and ignorance of his legal advisers, and ended by asking the attorney's advice as to his future conduct.
Major O'Dowd said to Jos Sedley: "Talk about kenal boats, my dear! Ye should see the kenal boats between Dublin and Ballinasloe. It's there the rapid travelling is; and the beautiful cattle."
On the eleventh of July, Ginkell, having repaired the fortifications of Athlone and left a garrison there, fixed his headquarters at Ballinasloe, about four miles from Aghrim, and rode forward to take a view of the Irish position.
This is what Hayes read as he sipped his coffee: LISNAHOE, December 23d. MY DEAR HAROLD: Home I come from Ballinasloe yesterday, and find your letter, the best part of a week old, kicking about among the bills and notices of meets that make the biggest end of my correspondence.
Yet, I dare say there are some who, still attending the fair, look back with regret on the disappearance of the good old days. Ballinasloe station is on the main line to Galway, 34 miles distant from the "City of the Tribes." Galway is the principal western terminus of the Midland railway. It was once a famous city, but its glory has gone. In 1831 its population was 33,000; to-day it is 13,000!
Neither love nor drink and Martin had, on the previous day, been much troubled with both had affected his appetite; and he ate out his money with the true persevering prudence of a Connaught man, who firmly determines not to be done. He was equally diligent at breakfast; and, at last, reached Ballinasloe, at ten o'clock the morning after he had left Dublin, in a flourishing condition.
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