Produced by David Widger STORIES AND TALES OF THE IRISH By William Carleton AN INDEX Edited by David Widger Project Gutenberg Editions CONTENTS ## Willy Reilly ## Fardorougha, The Miser ## Black Baronet ## The Evil Eye ## Jane Sinclair ## Lha Dhu ## The Dead Boxer ## Ellen Duncan ## The Proctor's Daughter ## Valentine M'Clutchy ## The Tithe-Proctor ## The Emigrants Of Ahadarra ## Ned M'Keown ## The Three Tasks ## Shane Fadh's Wedding ## Larry M'Farland's Wake ## The Battle Of The Factions ## The Station ## The Party Fight And Funeral ## The Lough Derg Pilgrim ## The Hedge School ## The Midnight Mass ## The Donagh ## Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver ## The Geography Of An Irish Oath ## The Lianhan Shee ## Going To Maynooth ## The Poor Scholar ## The Black Prophet ## Phelim Otoole's Courtship ## Wildgoose Lodge ## Tubber Derg (The Red Well) ## Neal Malone ## Art Maguire (The Broken Pledge) VOLUMES, CHAPTERS AND STORIES Willy Reilly PREFACE To The Second Edition CHAPTER I. An Adventure and an Escape. CHAPTER II. The Cooleen Baum. CHAPTER III. Daring Attempt of the Red Rapparee CHAPTER IV. His Rival makes his Appearance, and its Consequences CHAPTER V. The Plot and the Victims. CHAPTER VI. The Warning an Escape CHAPTER VII. An Accidental Incident favorable to Reilly CHAPTER VIII. A Conflagration An Escape And an Adventure CHAPTER IX. A Prospect of Bygone Times CHAPTER X. Scenes that took place in the Mountain Cave CHAPTER XI. The Squire's Dinner and his Guests. CHAPTER XII. Sir Robert Meets a Brother Sportsman CHAPTER XIII. Reilly is Taken, but Connived at by the Sheriff CHAPTER XIV. Reilly takes Service with Squire Folliard. CHAPTER XV. More of Whitecraft's Plots and Pranks CHAPTER XVI. Sir Robert ingeniously extricates Himself out of difficulty CHAPTER XVII. Awful Conduct of Squire Folliard CHAPTER XVIII. Something not very Pleasant for all Parties. CHAPTER XIX. Reilly's Disguise Penetrated CHAPTER XX. The Rapparee Secured CHAPTER XXI. Sir Robert Accepts of an Invitation. CHAPTER XXII. The Squire Comforts Whitecraft in his Affliction. CHAPTER XXIII. The Squire becomes Theological and a Proselytizer CHAPTER XXIV. Jury of the Olden Time CHAPTER XXV. Reilly stands his Trial List of Illustrations Page 11-- Is It a Double Murder You Are About to Execute? Page 18-- Looked With Her Dark Eyes Upon Reilly Page 28 (and Frontispiece)-- You Must Endeavor to Convert Him from Popery Page 29-- Readjustment of his Toilet, at the Large Mirror Page 35-- Touch Me Not, Sir Page 65-- Dashed up to the Scene of Struggle Page 65a-- I Entreat You, to Show These Men Mercy Now Page 91-- Here, Now, I Spread out My Arms--fire! Age 115-- Isn't he a Nice Bit of Goods to Run Away With A Pretty Girl? Page 140-- Discharged a Pistol at Our Hero Page 143-- No, Sir Robert, I Cannot Take Your Hand Page 157-- There is Not a Toss-up Between Them Page 175-- Give That Ring to the Prisoner