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Title: Strangers at Lisconnel

Author: Barlow Jane

Release Date: July 31, 2006 [EBook #18957]

Language: English

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STRANGERS AT LISCONNEL

_A SECOND SERIES OF IRISH IDYLLS_

BY

JANE BARLOW

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1895

_Copyright, 1895_,

by

Dodd, Mead and Company.

TO

M. L. B.

[Gaelic: Is fada me beo do dhiaigh.]

CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I.

OUT OF THE WAY 1

CHAPTER II.

JERRY DUNNE'S BASKET 14

CHAPTER III.

MRS. KILFOYLE'S CLOAK 31

CHAPTER IV.

A GOOD TURN 53

CHAPTER V.

FORECASTS 80

CHAPTER VI.

A FAIRING 112

CHAPTER VII.

MR. POLYMATHERS 139

CHAPTER VIII.

HONORIS CAUSA 168

CHAPTER IX.

BOYS' WAGES 211

CHAPTER X.

CON THE QUARE ONE 235

CHAPTER XI.

MAD BELL 271

CHAPTER XII.

A FLITTING 303

CHAPTER XIII.

A RETURN 324

CHAPTER XIV.

GOOD LUCK 340

CHAPTER I

OUT OF THE WAY

To Lisconnel, our very small hamlet in the middle of a wide bogland, the
days that break over the dim blue hill-line, faint and far off, seldom
bring a stranger's face; but then they seldom take a familiar one away,
beyond reach, at any rate of return before nightfall. In fact, there are
few places amid this mortal change to which we may come back after any
reasonable interval with more confidence of finding things just as we
left them, due allowance being made for the inevitable fingering of
Time. We shall find som