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No, uncle Macgrath was the only wan wid a kind heart an' a big purse. You see, boys, he was rich for an Irishman. He had a grand farm, an' a beautiful bit o' bog. Och! it'll go hard wid " "Read on, Flynn, and hold your tongue," cried one of his comrades; "p-r-aps he's left the old woman a legacy."
Eoghan Ruadh O'Sullivan and Andrew MacGrath, called An Mangaire Sugach or "the Jolly Pedlar," are well-known instances of this type. The poor scholar is another type that under varying forms and under various circumstances has ever trod the stage of Irish history. Columcille, and some other youths studied at Clonard and were supported by the neighborhood.
The Daily Advertiser for February 23, 1745, says that there was a young colossus exhibited opposite the Mansion House in London who was 7 feet high, although but fifteen years old. In the same paper on January 31, 1753, is an account of MacGrath, whose skeleton is still preserved in Dublin.
"Ha! ye may laugh," said the widow, with profound solemnity, "but if it's not dramin' I am, what Father Macgrath says about ghosts is true, and " "I hope you don't take me for a ghost, Mrs Lynch," said Pauline, stepping forward with a kindly smile and holding out her hand. "No, cushla! I don't," returned the widow, accepting the hand tenderly.
"There's my owld uncle Macgrath gone to his long home, an' he was the support o' me grandmother. Och! what'll she do now wid him gone an' me away at the wars?" "Won't some other relation look after her, Flynn?" suggested Moses. "Other relation!" exclaimed the corporal; "I've got no other relations, an' them that I have are as poor as rats.
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