Disturbed Ireland; Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81
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The river is swollen to double its usual size, and the slushy ^ This prediction was literally fulfilled. THE RELIEF OF MR. BOYCOTT. 141 misery endured by the military under canvas is quite beyond general camp experience. The soldiers have only one consolation — that the Orangemen are under canvas too. Galway, Tuesday, Nov. IQth. " Thim that is snug, your honour, is slower in pay in' than thim that is poor," said one of my informants a few days ago, just as I was setting out for the seat of war ...in county Mayo. The speaker was a Connemara man, and his remark was applied more particularly to his own region ; but the state of affairs in the neighbouring county illustrates his opinion in the most vivid colours. Ballinrobe is the centre of a by no means un- prosperous part of Ireland. Pretty homesteads are frequent, and well-furnished stackyards refresh the eye wearied with looking upon want and desola- tion. Between Ballinrobe and Hollymount the country is agreeably fertile ; toward Cong and Cloonbur, where Lord Mountmorres was shot, and in the direction of Headford, on the Galway road, there is plenty of evidence of prosperity.
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