CHAPTER I.—­A strong Farmer’s Establishment and Family.
It was one summer morning, about nine o’clock,
when a little man, in the garb and trim of a mendicant,
accompanied by a sl...
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William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the ...
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