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Perhaps our readers may scarcely believe that a love of learning was so strong among the inhabitants of Findramore as to occasion their taking such remarkable steps for establishing a schoolmaster among them; but the country was densely inhabited, the rising population exceedingly numerous, and the outcry for a schoolmaster amongst the parents of the children loud and importunate.
Whoo hurroo! my darlings success to the Findramore boys! Hurroo hurroo the Findramore boys for ever!" "Boys, did ever ye hear the song Mat made on Ned Mullen's fight wid Jemmy Connor's gander? Well here is part of it, to the tune of 'Brian O'Lynn' 'As Ned and the gander wor basting each other, I hard a loud cry from the gray goose, his mother; I ran to assist him, wid very great speed.
I believe, for all your larnin', the Findramore boys have sacked you at last!" "Ay!" exclaimed another, "he is sacked at last, in spite of his Matthew-maticks." "An', be my sowks," observed Traynor, "he'd be a long time goin' up a Maypowl in the state he's in his own snail would bate him."* * This alludes to a question in Gough's Arithmetic, which is considered difficult by hedge schoolmasters.
Any schoolmaster capacious and collified to instruct in the above-mintioned branches, would get a good school in the townland Findramore and its vircinity, be well fed, an' get the hoith o' good livin' among the farmers, an' would be ped "For Gommethry, &c, half a qinny a quarther. "Arithmatic, aight and three-hapuns. "Readin", Writin', &c, six Hogs.
Then the Findramore boys were not easily dealt with, having an ugly habit of involving their unlucky teachers in those quarrels which they kept up with the Ballyscanlan boys, a fighting clan that lived at the foot of the mountains above them.
"Troth, man," replied Dolan, "beggin' your pardon, I'll dhrink first healths apiece, your sowl; success boys glory to ourselves, and confusion to the Scanlon boys, any way." "And maybe," observed Connell, "'tis we that didn't lick them well in the last fair they're not able to meet the Findramore birds even on their own walk." "Well, boys," said Delany, "about the masther?
The village of Findramore was situated at the foot of a long green hill, the outline of which formed a low arch, as it rose to the eye against the horizon. This hill was studded with clumps of beeches, and sometimes enclosed as a meadow.
A word was enough they immediately set off; and the others, not wishing that Mat's wife should witness the mode of his conveyance, proceeded home, for it was now dusk. The plan succeeded admirably; and in a short time the wife and children, mounted behind the "boys" on the horses, were on the way after them to Findramore.
Matthew Kavanagh, Philomath and' Professor of the Learned Languages, begs leave to inform the Inhabitants of Findramore and' its vicinity, that he lectures on the following branches of Education, in his Seminary at the above-recited place:
The fact, therefore, was, that a very strong motive stimulated the inhabitants of Findramore in their efforts to procure a master.
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