Our Little Irish Cousin

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Wade Mary Hazelton Blanchard. Our Little Irish Cousin

INTRODUCTION

Preface

CHAPTER I. NORAH

CHAPTER II. THE THUNDER-STORM

CHAPTER III. ST. PATRICK

CHAPTER IV. DANIEL O'CONNELL

CHAPTER V. KILLARNEY

CHAPTER VI. HALLOWE'EN

CHAPTER VII. FAIRIES

CHAPTER VIII. BLARNEY CASTLE

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YOU have often heard people speak of the Emerald Isle. When you have asked where it is and why it is so called, you have been told it is only another name for that small island to the northwest of the continent of Europe called Ireland.

The rains there fall so often, and the sun shines so warmly afterward, that Mother Nature is able to dress herself in the brightest and loveliest of colours. The people there are cheerful and good-natured. They are always ready to smile through their tears and see the funny side of every hardship.

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"Be patient and wait only a few more thousands of years," the bogs would say to us if they could, "and you may have coal instead of peat. Father Time will make the change without any work on your part."

But the people of Ireland cannot wait. Most of them are very, very poor. They live from day to day, glad if they have a roof to cover their heads and food enough to keep them from starving.

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