Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee

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William Carleton. Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee

Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee

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PART IV

PHIL PURCEL, THE PIG-DRIVER

THE GEOGRAPHY OF AN IRISH OATH

THE LIANHAN SHEE

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William Carleton

Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of / William Carleton, Volume Three

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“Dang un!” he exclaimed, “I never seed nout like this.”

He would have proceeded in a strain of cogitation equally enlightened, had not a noise of shouting, alarm, and confusion in the neighborhood, excited his attention. He looked about him, and to his utter astonishment saw that some extraordinary commotion prevailed, that the country was up, and the hills alive with people, who ran, and shouted, and wheeled at full flight in all possible directions. His first object was to join the crowd, which he did as soon as possible, and found that the pigs he had shut up the preceding night in sties whose enclosures were at least four feet high, had cleared them like so many chamois, and were now closely pursued by the neighbors, who rose en masse to hunt down and secure such dreadful depredators.

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