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fitting that I should mention another old lady named 

 Mrs. Breen, who kept a sporting hotel at Glencar, a 

 few miles off, principally confined to salmon and 

 peel fishing during the spring and summer months, 

 also a little Woodcock and Snipe shooting in the 

 winter months. Well, these were the two sporting 

 hotels in that part of Ireland, and the only two with 

 any real merit. If either of these two old ladies 

 happened to be full up she would send her visitors 

 over to the other place, whichever it might happen 

 to be, for it really didn't matter very much as both 

 were sporting places, and equally comfortable. To sum 

 up these two, Mrs. Shea and Mrs. Breen, you could 

 hardly think of the one without thinking of the other. 



As regards Glenbeigh Hotel as it is nowadays, 

 instead of being unpretentious as it used to be, it has 

 been immensely enlarged and brought up-to-date, 

 being capable of giving satisfaction to the most 

 exacting visitor. This is all due to the old lady's 

 thrift and good management in the past ; for what 

 with the extension of the railway to Cahirciveen, 

 and also that suitable ranges had been found near 

 her hotel for artillery practice, about six or eight 

 weeks of every year she had her place filled with 

 artillery and other officers superintending the shoot- 

 ing, and in this way, no doubt, she was enabled to 

 make a nice little pile. 



Having thus introduced you to Mrs. Shea and 

 her hotel, I will now go on to the specimens. 



In the winter of 1893-94, ^ think it was, there was 

 a sporting young fellow whom we will call N. — that 



