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Even Father Prout at this time of day is little more than a dried specimen labelled for reference, or at most preserved in vitality by the immortal Groves of Blarney. But neither that work, nor even The Night before Larry was stretched, nor Le Fanu's ballad of Shemus O'Brien, can rank altogether as literature.
This was the hereditary tailor of Vich lan Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. You know the measure of a well-made man two double nails to the small of the leg 'Eleven from haunch to heel, seven round the waist. 'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan and sash, continued the Chieftain, 'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr. Mouat's in the Crames.
'He told us the other day, we were to see a great gentleman riding on a horse, and there came nobody that whole day but Shemus Beg, the blind harper, with his dog. Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth.
He told us the other day we were to see a great gentleman riding on a horse, and there came nobody that whole day but Shemus Beg, the blind harper, with his dog. Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth.
This was the hereditary tailor of Vich lan Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. You know the measure of a well-made man two double nails to the small of the leg 'Eleven from haunch to heel, seven round the waist. 'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan and sash, continued the Chieftain, 'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr. Mouat's in the Crames.
This was the hereditary tailor of Vich lan Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. You know the measure of a well-made man two double nails to the small of the leg 'Eleven from haunch to heel, seven round the waist. 'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan and sash, continued the Chieftain, 'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr. Mouat's in the Crames.
'He told us the other day, we were to see a great gentleman riding on a horse, and there came nobody that whole day but Shemus Beg, the blind harper, with his dog. Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth.
'He told us the other day, we were to see a great gentleman riding on a horse, and there came nobody that whole day but Shemus Beg, the blind harper, with his dog. Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth.
Living in that town, he was of great assistance to the various agents entrusted with the task of procuring arms for the revolutionary movement. It speaks much for his sagacity that a man of his impulsive and generous temperament should so long have escaped arrest in connection with such hazardous undertakings. Hogan, however, like Shemus O'Brien, "was taken at last."
Here Callum Beg received them with a smile of recognition. This was the hereditary tailor of Vich Ian Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. You know the measure of a well-made man: two double nails to the small of the leg' 'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan, and sash, continued the Chieftain, 'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr. Mouat's in the Crames.
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