Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for ChildrenGreenwood, Grace
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Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children
Greenwood, Grace
Great Britain -- Juvenile literature; Ireland -- Juvenile literature
In a few moments, there leaped to land, not the enchanted Irish
chieftain, but a better man, Barry O'Donoghue, who had as good a right
to call himself "_the_ O'Donoghue" as any other member of that numerous
family. Then he handed out his wife, Kathleen, who three years before
he had been obliged to steal away from her unkind and foolish
parents,--and little Master Harry O'Donoghue, a handsome, curly-headed
little rogue, who jumped at once with a merry laugh, into the arms and
into the hearts of his grandparents.
After a great deal of embracing and kissing, Barry said, in reply to a
host of wondering exclamations and questions: "We have come back from
Australia, where we were getting rich, because Kathleen could not be
longer away from home and you. We have brought a little fortune with
us, and mean to settle down here in dear old Killarney, if you will be
reconciled to us, and take us for neighbors."
"And if you will forgive me, for not coming back to you a great lady,"
said Kathleen, smiling.
"Don't say any more about that," said Michael More, embracing her for
the twentieth time,--"We are glad enough to have you back just your old
self, and it's quite content we are with your husband and the boy--and
bad luck to all fortune-tellers! say I."
With that, old Stephen blew an applauding farewell note on his bugle,
and the Mores and O'Donoghues all went into the cottage, where we will
leave them.
Limerick.
LITTLE ANDY AND HIS GRANDFATHER.
We travelled from Killarney to Tarbert, on the Shannon, by the
stage-coach, passing through several old, but uninteresting towns, and
seeing a great deal of barrenness and wretchedness on our way. At
Tarbert, we took a steamer, to ascend the river to Limerick, and as the
weather that afternoon was clear and bright, we had one of the most
delightful trips you can imagine.
The Shannon is a very noble river--in some places widening out like a
sea, and all the way running between beautiful green shores. There is
a place in the river, near the mouth, which has somewhat the appearance
of rapids, when the tide is coming in. This, the people say, is the
site of a sunken city, whose towers and turrets make the roughness of
the water. The whole city can be seen every seven years, but, as the
sight is said to be unlucky, every body avoids it. The whole story is
about as probable as the one I have told you of the damp and dubious
palace of the O'Donoghue.
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