Chapter I: Front Matter

BY BEACH AND BOG-LAND

SOME IRISH NOVELS

Crown 8vo, Cloth, 6s.

THE WIZARD’S KNOT. By WILLIAM BARRY.

THE LOST LAND. By JULIA M. CROTTIE.

NEIGHBOURS: Being Annals of a Dull Town. By JULIA M. CROTTIE.

LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN.

BY BEACH AND
BOG-LAND

_SOME IRISH STORIES_

BY

JANE BARLOW

_With a Frontispiece by_ PAUL HENRY

LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
Paternoster Square
MCMV

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“Westward on the low sweet strand
Where songs are sung of the old green Irish land,
And the sky loves it, and the sea loves best,
And as a bird is taken to man’s breast
The sweet-souled land where sorrow sweetest sings
Is wrapt round with them as with hands and wings
And taken to the sea’s heart as a flower”

SWINBURNE.

CONTENTS

PAGE

IN THE WINDING WALK 1

A MONEY-CROP AT LISCONNEL 31

THE HIGH TIDE AND THE MAN-TRAPPERS 55

THE FOOT-STICKS OF SLUGHNATRAIGH 73

OLD ISAAC’S BIGGEST HAUL 101

THE WRONG TURNING 117

CRAZY MICK 141

WIDOW FARRELL’S WONDERFUL AGE 149

THE HINS’ HOUSEKEEPER 175

TWO PAIR OF TRUANTS 189

THEIR NEW UMBRELLAS 209

A SMALL PRACTICE 225

A LINGERING GUEST 247

LOUGHNAGLEE 261

MORIARTY’S MEADOW 269

DELAYED IN TRANSMISSION 285

FOR COMPANY 295

By Beach and Bog-land

IN THE WINDING WALK