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for the creameries, the coming down invariably 

 resulted in a brief but conclusive negative on 

 the part of the English butter merchant, who 

 had no time for commercial pleasantries. 



The bartering away of a daughter for a pig, 

 a calf, or a heifer, with the priest as auctioneer 

 in the matrimonial market, throws, I admit, 

 an ugly side-light on the practical side of the 

 Irish character, but my own experience leads 

 me to have only pleasant feelings toward the 

 unfailing courtesy and generosity of the Irish 

 people. 



In England, especially around the district 

 dominated by a large and wealthy country 

 house, or near towns where the rich merchant 

 sets up his mansion, one can hardly get a gate 

 opened or be directed on one's way without 

 giving the looked for " tip " of the price of a 

 " pint."' Now I travelled over the wildest and 

 poorest parts of Ireland with my camera, and I 

 was warned by an Irish doctor not to insult 

 the Irish peasant, however poor he might be, 

 with a tip for any service performed ; and on 

 the only occasion that I did insult an Irish 

 peasant — which, by the way, was at the point 

 nearest to England — Waterford — I received a 

 well-deserved rebuke. 



