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Updated: May 27, 2025
He would never refuse to assist a neighbour, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone-fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husband^ would not do for them.
Sure yerself knows better than to take out the Badger, the best steeple-chaser in Ireland, in such a country as this, nothing but awkward stone-fences, and not a foot of sure ground in the whole of it." "I know it well, Brackely; but I have my reasons for it." "Well, may be you have; what cover will your honor try first?" "They talk of the Mill," said I; "but I'd much rather try Morran-a-Gowl."
The rough road ran between rude stone-fences and straggling apple-trees to the village, lying some two miles to the southeast.
Still, there is, at times, a considerable swell. The appearance of the land is barren, desolate, and unpromising in the highest degree; and the town is in keeping with the scenery. Eighty or ninety miserable hovels, constructed of small, loose stones, in the manner of our stone-fences, stand in rows, with some pretence of regularity.
The stone-fences, the occasional apple-trees, the bushes and bits of rock bordering the road, slipped by half seen. The full use of the eyes was required for the path in front, rough as it was with loose stones, and seamed with irregular ruts. Easy work enough, however, as long as it remained level, and open to the starlight.
He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone-fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them.
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