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Excerpt from Succat the Story of Sixty Years of the Life of St. Patrick, 373-433
Others better acquainted with the voluminous literature, which has grown up about the name of Ireland's apostle, may have been familiar with it before, but it is to the pages of the May num ber of Merry England, 1883, that I am indebted for the view which I propose to embody in this narrative. The writer of the paper alluded to is General Butler, c.b., whose time since then had been spent mainly on the banks of the Nile, and whose dashing deeds and power of command have made his name amongst Englishmen familiar as a household word. But he is not merely a brave soldier and a skilful officer, he is a literary man of no mean order, and he has worthily em ployed his pen in illustrating the dark places in the life of his nation's patron saint. So far from his military instincts and training making him unfit for dealing adequately-with his subject, it was that very instinct which caused him to seize on the idea, that the father and grandfather of St. Patrick had been soldiers before they became ecclesiastics, and so, curiously enough, enabled him to unravel the tangled skein of places and nationalities which had been woven about thexviii prefa ce.
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