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Updated: May 10, 2025
She does this by howling and shrieking in the night; and sometimes, they say, she is seen a tall, pale woman, in long white robes, with black hair flying in the wind. The most amusing of these supernatural creatures is the Leprehawn, or Luriceen, or Clericaune, the brogue-maker of the "good people."
"Well, all of a sudden, what did she hear among the bean-rows in the garden but a noise that went tick-tack, tick-tack, just for all the world as if a brogue-maker was putting on the heel of a pump! "`The Lord preserve us, says Mary O'Connor; `what in the world can that be? "So she laid down her knitting, and she went over to the beans.
She then told him the room being first cleared of all other people that, she was the wife of D A , the brogue-maker of F , that her husband was an honest, industrious man, who knew his own trade and business well, and who knew a great deal about the business of other people, too, and of what was going on in the country that he was a man of upright and Christian principles, who would always feel it a conscientious duty to aid the laws of his country to preserve social order and punish crime that he was not a man to be terrified or bribed by any amount of punishment or reward; but that if he were properly managed and kindly treated, he might be found able to give a good deal of useful information.
He rose softly parted the bushes, and there sat the wee brogue-maker, busily at work. The next moment, Tim had him fast in his fist, and fast he held him, till the elf showed him where his treasure was hid. Then, after loading himself with gold and jewels, he set the fairy free, and went home dancing and singing in a very strange and indecorous way.
Indeed, in my own case and I am but a poor brogue-maker, with half-a-dozen acres of the |poorest lands of F , he took from me, between citations to the Bishop's Court and other costs, with the original tithes, at least one-fourth of the entire produce of my little farm; nor do I know any one in the parish that fares better than myself, especially the poor people who don't understand the law, and who are not able, or willing, to get into it.
I supposed that the husband made brogues as the wife made an apron, till next day it was told me, that a brogue-maker was a trade, and that a pair would cost half a crown. It will easily occur that these representations may both be true, and that, in some places, men may buy them, and in others, make them for themselves; but I had both the accounts in the same house within two days.
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