Excerpt from Irish Idylls Proportion of that human nature which a cer tain humourist has declared to exist in considerable quantities among our species. I hope, too, that the phases Of it pictured here may have some spe cial interest for American readers, to whose shores the wild boglands of Connaught send so many a forlorn voyager over oceans Of say. They will perhaps care to glance at his Old home, and learn the reasons why he leaves it, which seem to lie very Obviously on the surface, and the reasons, less immediately apparent, why his neighbours bide behind. It is indeed the fact of those emigrants that chiefly encourages me to believe there may be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.