bog-drain

Updated: May 3, 2025

Some five miles from the hotel she met a wedding, and therewith leaped the bog-drain by the side of the road and "took to the mountains," as the bridegroom poetically described it to Fanny Fitz, who, with the ostler, was pursuing the fugitive on an outside car. "If that's the way," said the ostler, "ye mightn't get her again before the winther."

Martin Ross - All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches