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Mike opened his mouth with a grin that might have put either of the Plinys to shame, it being rather a favourite theory with the descendants of the puritans or "poor'atin's," as the county Leitrim- man called Joel and his set that the Irishman was more than a match for any son of Ham at the Knoll, in the way of capacity about this portion of the human countenance.
One does feel inclined to lose all patience as they run the gauntlet here, and then one looks around at the miserable cabins built of loose stones, at the thatch held on by ropes weighted with stones, the same as are to be seen in Achil Island, among the Donegal hills, or the long glens of Leitrim, notices the patches of pale, sickly, stunted oats, the little corners of pinched potatoes a girl passed us with a tin dish of potatoes for the dinner, they were little bigger than marbles the little rickles of turf that the constant rain is spoiling, and one sees that as there is really no industry in the place, of loom or factory, that want and encouragement have combined to make them come down like the wolf on the fold to the attack of tourists.
"Ye're as wilcome at the Huts, as if ye owned thim, and I love ye as I did my own brother, before I left the county Leitrim paice to his sowl!" "He dead?" asked Nick, sententiously; for he had lived enough among the pale-faces to have some notions of then theory about the soul. "That's more than I know but, living or dead, the man must have a sowl, ye understand, Nicholas.
Other landlords there were on whose devoted heads were breathed curses both loud and deep. The late Lord Leitrim was exalted to the skies, but his murdered father was visited with blackest malediction.
I could not see what I did see and hear what I did hear of the tyranny wrought by the late Earl of Leitrim, and the present Captain Dobbing, or walk through the desolation created by Mr. Adair, without feeling sad, sorry and indignant. On the banks of the Finn, near Strabane, was born the celebrated hero Finn ma Coul.
They came into the Dublin market for a loan of a million, and the best terms they could get were from Luke White, who offered to take it at sixty-five pounds per one hundred pound share at five per cent. not unremunerative terms. At the time of his death, in 1824, he had long been M.P. for Leitrim, and his son was member for the county of Dublin.
I made particular enquiry if Lord Leitrim had ever made any allowance or compensation to a man deprived of the house, which he or his fathers had built, after this summary fashion. No compensation. Every fixture put upon the land belonged to the landlord absolutely. "Was there ever any help allowed to a man in building a new house?"
She was, therefore, dressed for starting on the Tuesday morning, when the other girls were ready; and though her eyes and nose were somewhat red, and her cheeks somewhat pale, and though she did not now deserve the compliment that Fred Brown had paid her, when he told Ussher that he was going to carry off the prettiest girl in County Leitrim, still she did not look unwell, and Mrs.
They raised the rent twice on themselves, and after all he was obliged to sell, and the fate they dreaded came upon them; they passed into Mr. Corscadden's hands. During the famine this part of Leitrim got relief from the Mansion House Fund. Mr. Corscadden never gave a penny; never answered a letter addressed to him on the subject.
At Falcarragh we met a person who knew much about the late Lord Leitrim, who was murdered in this neighbourhood on the highway some years ago. He spoke freely of the murderer by name, as if it were matter of common notoriety.
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