Rambles in Ireland
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What would be the sense of keening without a corpse ? " Thus the old man garrolled on, getting a deal of amusement out of the Irish ^ Lament.
94 RAMBLES IN IRELAND revivalists, though, like most of the country- people nowadays, he agreed with their aims.
He was especially interested to know what they called various things like telegraph-poles, and even in Irish he knew no word but " steamer " for a steamer. I told him the word I had got out of a grammar — " galtan." " That is it," he said, nodd...ing agreement ; " ' gal ' is smoke or steam.
' Galtan ' — I never heard that word before, but I know it's right." And, careless of the rain and of the scenery that was blotted out of all colour and wonder, we talked on through the crooked straits that connect the two great spaces of the lake, and across the second great space till we made direct for what seemed an impenetrable forest of tall rushes, and found the mouth of the river Corrib, from which we steamed down past Menlough Castle, which had a short time before been burnt one disastrous night, and, a little weary of all the stoppages and the wet air and the crowded deck of the steamer, we were soon carting our bags down a grey street of Galway again in the end of a little procession of ambling women with egg- baskets and farmers in weather-beaten hats of grotesque shapes — all making towards the settle- ment of carts and donkeys and pigs and noisy hens that to them for the day was Galway.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What would be the sense of keening without a corpse ? " Thus the old man garrolled on, getting a deal of amusement out of the Irish ^ Lament.
94 RAMBLES IN IRELAND revivalists, though, like most of the country- people nowadays, he agreed with their aims.
He was especially interested to know what they called various things like telegraph-poles, and even in Irish he knew no word but " steamer " for a steamer. I told him the word I had got out of a grammar — " galtan." " That is it," he said, nodd...ing agreement ; " ' gal ' is smoke or steam.
' Galtan ' — I never heard that word before, but I know it's right." And, careless of the rain and of the scenery that was blotted out of all colour and wonder, we talked on through the crooked straits that connect the two great spaces of the lake, and across the second great space till we made direct for what seemed an impenetrable forest of tall rushes, and found the mouth of the river Corrib, from which we steamed down past Menlough Castle, which had a short time before been burnt one disastrous night, and, a little weary of all the stoppages and the wet air and the crowded deck of the steamer, we were soon carting our bags down a grey street of Galway again in the end of a little procession of ambling women with egg- baskets and farmers in weather-beaten hats of grotesque shapes — all making towards the settle- ment of carts and donkeys and pigs and noisy hens that to them for the day was Galway.
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