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It is a spot well known by all the sportsmen in the neighborhood as one to be avoided, ever since Gort, the farmer, some years before, had jumped it for the sake of an idle bet, and had been carried home from it a dead man, leaving his good brown mare with a broken back behind him.
What a pretty drive it is to Gort. 'Then, do you know a place on the left-hand side of the road, about a mile and a half from Dungory Castle? 'You mean Brookfield? 'Yes; that is our place. 'Then you are Miss Barton? 'Yes, I am Miss Barton; do you know father or mother? 'No, no; but I have heard the name in Galway. I was spending a few days with one of your neighbours.
"O'Connell rode up Crow Lane and to Church Street on a single horse, and he stopped there and took a view of Gort." "I saw O'Connell after he left Gort going on the road to Kinvara, and seven horses in the coach they could not get in the eighth. He stopped, and he was talking to Hickman that was with me. Shiel was in the coach along with him."
It was a powerful advice you gave me about the washboard, and if I didn't come here to thank you before this it was not because I didn't want to come, but that I couldn't move hand or foot by dint of the cruel rheumatism put upon me by the Leprecauns of Gort na Cloca Mora, bad cess to them for ever: twisted I was the way you'd get a squint in your eye if you only looked at me, and the pain I suffered would astonish you."
A community of Leprecauns without a crock of gold is a blighted and merriless community, and they are certainly justified in seeking sympathy and assistance for the recovery of so essential a treasure. But the steps whereby the Leprecauns of Gort na Cloca Mora sought to regain their property must for ever brand their memory with a certain odium.
'Anyway, you haven't those faults to find with a certain officer, now stationed at Gort, who, if report speaks truly, is constantly seen riding towards Brookfield. 'Well, what harm is there in that? said Olive, for she did not feel quite sure in her mind if she should resent or accept the gracious insinuation. 'None whatever; I only wish such luck were mine.
Leaning her head on her strong, well-shaped hand, she set to arranging her little plans for her friend's help plans that were charming for their simplicity, their sweet homeliness. The letter she had just read had come by the afternoon post, and if she were to send May the money she wrote for that evening, it would be necessary to go into Gort to register the letter.
Her thin face lit up as if from a light within; a grey cloud dimmed the light of Mrs. Barton's golden eyes, and when she saw Him in the vestibule helping the Scullys on with their wraps, she shuddered as if struck with a blast of icy wind. 'DUNGORY CASTLE, GORT, 'Co. 'MY DEAREST ALICE, 'I was so delighted to hear from you; it was very good of you to write to me.
Another time," the man says, "my father told me he was in a boat out on the lake with two or three men from Gort, and one of them had an eel-spear, and he thrust it into the water, and it hit something, and the man fainted and they had to carry him out of the boat to land, and when he came to himself he said that what he struck was like a calf, but whatever it was, it was not fish!"
Walter dined with us to-day, Jane remaining with her mother. The good affectionate creatures leave us to-morrow. God send them a quick passage through the Irish Channel! They go to Gort, where Walter's troop is lying a long journey for winter days. January 17. Another proper day of mist, sleet, and rain, through which I navigated homeward. I imagine the distance to be a mile and a half.
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