Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... have God's vengeance, instead of his blessin along with it? '" " Oh," said McAulifle, " sure all the farmers are doin the like--'tis well, I know, they can afford to live well now, on the bacon, and the bread, and the punch, being they pays little rent, and the poor landlords thinks maybe they're starvin, as all them newspapers makes sicb. a screech about it; sure I heerd Jerry Desmond, that strong farmer over there, say, ' He'd be sorry to have the praties grow again, for then the landlords would be expecting their rent.' But, sure now, the murther is out, for Ned Sheehan is gone; and sure, we all gother up to as many as two hundred of us yesterday, and cut all Ned's crops for him; and his people-in-law sent him ever so many cars, and whipped it all away before mornin, and Ned said, as he was goin, 'They may go look for it now.'" "'Twasagreat shame for you, Jerry," said Paddy, " to have a hand in such a business, and to break the Lord's-day too; you'll find 'twon't end well." " So my son Denny here said to me, Paddy," said McAuliffe, " when I axed him to come and help to cut down Ned Sheehan's corn, --' Not a leg of me will go, daddy, ' says Denny, ' I'd be afeerd I'd cut off my hand with the reaping-hook.'" Paddy looked at Denny McAuliffe with great satisfaction, saying, " Why, then, God bless you, my good boy, for that; what a pity your father took you from that good school--see how you larned better there in a few months, than the priest taught you and all of us, those many years back; 'tis long before his tachin would keep us from brakin two of God's commandments together, as I thinks takin away the crops on Sunday is." Poor Denny had been badgered and laughed at, for refusing to go with the crop-lifters on Sunday, by all his family, ...
