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Title: All on the Irish Shore
Irish Sketches

Author: E. Somerville and Martin Ross

Illustrator: E. Somerville

Release Date: September 27, 2005 [EBook #16766]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "ROBERT TRINDER, ESQ., M.F.H." _A Grand Filly._]

All on the Irish Shore

Irish Sketches

By

E.OE. Somerville and Martin Ross

Authors of

"Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.," "The Real Charlotte" "The Silver
Fox," "A Patrick's Day Hunt" etc., etc.

With Illustrations by E.OE. Somerville

_SECOND IMPRESSION_

Longmans, Green, and Co.

39 Paternoster Row, London

New York and Bombay

1903

CONTENTS.

THE TINKER'S DOG

FANNY FITZ'S GAMBLE

THE CONNEMARA MARE

A GRAND FILLY

A NINETEENTH-CENTURY MIRACLE

HIGH TEA AT MCKEOWN'S

THE BAGMAN'S PONY

AN IRISH PROBLEM

THE DANE'S BREECHIN'

"MATCHBOX"

"AS I WAS GOING TO BANDON FAIR"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"ROBERT TRINDER, ESQ., M.F.H."

"A SILENCE THAT WAS THE OUTCOME PARTLY OF STUPIDITY, PARTLY OF CAUTION,
AND PARTLY OF LACK OF ENGLISH SPEECH"

"MR. GUNNING WAS LOOKIN' OUT FOR A COB"

ROBERT'S AUNT

THE BLOOD-HEALER

"THE GREY-HAIRED KITCHEN-MAID"

SWEENY

"MUSHA! MUSHA!"

"CROPPY"

A HIERARCH OF HORSE-DEALING

THE TINKER'S DOG

"Can't you head 'em off, Patsey? Run, you fool! _run_, can't you?"

Sounds followed that suggested the intemperate use of Mr. Freddy
Alexander's pocket-handkerchief, but that were, in effect, produced by
his struggle with a brand new hunting-horn. To this demonstration about
as much attention was paid by the nine couple of buccaneers whom he was
now exercising for the first time as might have been expected, and it
was brought to abrupt conclusion by the sudden charge of two of them
from the rear. Being coupled, they mowed his legs from under him as
irresistibly as chain shot and being puppies, and of an