A bunch of shamrocks; being a collection of Irish tales and sketches - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...Cassidy, you live up on the Tolka Bank; you ought to be able to tell us something about this ghost. Have you ever seen it?" "Yis, sir, often and often! An' be me word, it isn't me that's consaited av th' acquaintance aither! There he goes; meandherin' about wid his black cassock, an' his black heart, too; that ye can see in his ugly face." "Are you not afraid of that ghost, Jack?" "Yeh may well ax that, sir. The sorra dhry screed there's an me sometimes wid the pasp'ration! Me business brings me out at ontimely hours, and only I'm dhruv to it, the sorra bit o' me 'ud go in the way av seein' the ould naygar!" And Jack put his working implements into the barrow and wheeled it away, thereby avoiding any further conversation. Tom Hamilton was furthermore informed that there was not a "boy " in or about GHasnevin who would venture alone along the Tolka Bank after nightfall. Sure enough, in a few days Tom found that all the barony was talking about the ghost, and the united testimony of the district went to confirm the report that a supernatural visitor of some kind or other haunted the Tolka Bank. He was told this one evening as he came home from Dublin on the top of the tram-car; but the subject soon dropped out of his mind, for he was on his way to take tea at Drumcondra, where he expected to me6t Annie MacDermott. Yes, Annie was there, looking distractingly pretty in a thick white pique dress. According to her wont, she snubbed Torn most unmercifully; laughed at him when he recounted the latest intelligence concerning the ghost; and succeeded in putting him into such a whirl of alternate despair and delight, that when the hour for departure came, and her brother had not arrived to take her home, his happiness was c...