[.Tax.
the bark
and
—
may
•oincs sat
liable
trhen, j
whole
With flung
drew his cap
1
infortunate
Along
of these islam Is are Owey,
I
|
parochially
iiieh
drawn
h
public
ago
rs
ndent landlord, ion to
the ami
what was the most miserable
of
Close to the shore
rid.
the
is
name from the Armada lies When, however, we say tradition, gained
li
its
ne of the Spanish
been brought forward presence of a wreck,
testimony has il
as to its asserted date
- _;h
Connell Eoyle,
I
by
L
1
to be
down
made
it is difficult
I
still
who,
to the vessel, and cannon on the deck.
ihus extracted, each
i
i
bout ten feet long, and were at one shilling per pound I
16
travelling tinkers,
how
to sell
it
guessed,
!.
when .
Co:i
The it
crack
Sligo, off
i
the land,
known
as
than
one.
the blessings enjoyed by Innishgloria and Innishkea, two very small and rocky islets to the south, not far from Achill Island on the coast of Mayo. Innishgloria has the marvel-
property of preserving bodies without decomposing or undergoing any process of stuffing or embalming, so that people can have the satisfaction (melancholy or otherwise) of going to visit their ancestors, and finding them with hair and nails still perfect. Indeed, we are not quite sure that they are not said to grow at all events, there is a great run upon this island as a burying-place. lous
their
Innishkea, according to that most genial of
Otway, possesses a wooden idol, which brings luck to the island as long as it is writers, Caesar
a crane that has lived there safely preserved without mate or offspring for hundreds of
and, what is much more credible, a supply of the finest potheen in the G. P. Bevan. country.
years
First,
large
A NIGHT IN A SNOWDRIFT. In the following narration I have avoided I need
Council's
sterling. %
ways
guns
and
boko
—
at the cheapest
calibre of the
I*
who
In-
st<>
the brass,
iolish 'less
invoked on his enemies by means s brought down by wells, many villages to this day being fortunate enough to possess a cursing- well. This island, however, contains another stone, which appears to be much more useful in its for if any fuel which may chance to vocation ingniahed be laid on it, it is immediately rekindled. So that, on the whole, Innismurray possesses some decided advantages. But these are nothing in comparison with 1
of
stated
is
living,
—
cursmg-stones, which formerly were frequently be to this day Tt is a curious thing, that which the Irish peasantry it ions
or
i,
itself is ab-
2, 1S64.
because
I
I
Qg
in
it
is
deli-
mentioning names, dates, or places. not assign a reason ; the incidents of will
my
story
supply one. Some years ago never mind how many I was in America, employed in surveying, prior to the construction of one of those vast lines of railway which are now found of as utility for warlike as they were then int.
—
—
'
ul traffic.
had gone out from England with very few pounds in my pooket, but with I
may
1
ind,
say, with into
my
it
highly
- lity.
work, and found
- ve.
I
Although
I
-
thoroughly
the ocoupa-
and tometim dents inseparable from it, 1 oould h
i
with the a
the onl