s. On recovering from her
convulsions, her senses were found to be gone for ever! Poor girl! she
is still living; but from that moment to this, she has never opened her
lips to mortal. She is, indeed, a fair ruin, but silent, melancholy, and
beautiful as the moon in the summer heaven. Poor Rose Galh! you and many
a mother, and father, and wife, and orphan, have had reason to maledict
the _bloody Battles of the Factions_.

"With regard to my grandfather, he says that he didn't see purtier
fighting within his own memory; not since the fight between himself and
Big Mucklemurray took place in the same town. But, to do him justice, he
condemns the scythe and every other weapon except the cudgels; because,
he says, that if they continue to be resorted to, nate fighting will be
altogether forgotten in the country."

[It was the original intention of the author to have made every man in
the humble group about Ned M'Keown's hearth narrate a story illustrating
Irish life, feeling, and manners; but on looking into the matter more
closely, he had reason to think that such a plan, however agreeable
for a time, would ultimately narrow the sphere of his work, and
perhaps fatigue the reader by a superfluity of Irish dialogue and its
peculiarities of phraseology. He resolved therefore, at the close of
the _Battle of the Factions_, to abandon his original design, and leave
himself more room for description and observation. ]

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