Chapter I: Front Matter

THROUGH CONNEMARA

IN A

GOVERNESS CART.

BY

THE AUTHORS OF “AN IRISH COUSIN.”

ILLUSTRATED BY W. W. RUSSELL, FROM SKETCHES BY EDITH Œ. SOMERVILLE.

LONDON:

W. H. ALLEN & CO., LIMITED,

13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.

1893.

The following pages, with their accompanying illustrations, originally appeared in the columns of “THE LADIES’ PICTORIAL,” and are here reprinted by permission of the Proprietors.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

“IN THE SECLUSION OF THE BACK BEDROOM” 5

“IF YE BATE HIM ANY MORE HE’LL LIE DOWN” 19

“SHE’S A LITTLE GIDDY ABOUT THE HEAD, MISS” 28

“WE VIEWED THE STOWING OF THE GOVERNESS-CART” 31

“MR FLAHERTY’S BOY WAS DEMONSTRATING WITH A PITCH-FORK” 35

“WE PURSUED OUR WAY TO RECESS” 39

A FISHERMAN AT RECESS 43

THE TWO HOTEL DOGS 49

“NOW” 53

“BALLINAHINCH CAME SLOWLY INTO SIGHT” 65

“WE HEARD WHEELS CLOSE AT HAND” 71

“HANGING ON EACH TO OUR REIN” 85

“SITTING ON LITTLE STOOLS INSIDE THE BIG FIREPLACE” 97

“REVEALED A MONSTROUS GREY GOOSE” 105

MR. MITCHELL HENRY’S PLACE, KYLEMORE CASTLE 119

JACK’S FATHER 125

AT TULLY FAIR 129

RENVYLE HOUSE HOTEL 141

“IT WAS THE BROAD WINDOW SEAT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MOUNTAINS, THAT TURNED THE SCALE” 147

“SHE WAS AN AMERICAN LADY” 149

THE RENVYLE DONKEY 158

“DOWN THE HILL OF SALRUCK” 169

“THE HOLY WELL, SALRUCK” 175

“EIGHT O’CLOCK BREAKFAST, PLEASE, AND CALL US SHARP AT SEVEN” 191

“THE REGRET WITH WHICH WE PAID OUR HOTEL BILL WAS NOT WHOLLY MERCENARY, BUT WAS BLENDED WITH THE FINER PATHOS OF FAREWELL” 197

THROUGH CONNEMARA IN A GOVERNESS-CART.