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lars.&quot; This the would-be purchaser mistook for a 

 haggle over price, and demanded how much she 

 would be sold for, when Patrick, breaking away 

 from him with indignation, answered resolutely, 

 &quot; She is not for sale at all, at all, but going to the 

 country for air and grass.&quot; 



&quot; But it s an awful time I ve had with her,&quot; he 

 continued, in his narration. &quot; Sure and didn t she 

 lay down with me twelve times, and didn t I think 

 every blessed time that she would niver get up 

 again ? Her tongue hung out & yard, in spite of me 

 watering her at every trough along the road. She 

 kept me ever since tin o clock this very morning, 

 and would stop to rest whenever she felt like it, un 

 til I began to think I shouldn t get home till next 

 day.&quot; 



Thus Cushy exhibited another evidence of her 

 intelligence. As she had heretofore insisted upon 

 being fed whenever she was hungry, she now had, 

 with equal peremptoriness, demanded rest when she 

 was tired. Fat and unaccustomed to travel, she 

 made the Irishman conform to her views of speed, 

 like the superior being she was, knowing well that 

 he was only sent to wait on and accompany her in 

 her journey. She was evidently pleased with the 

 country, being found next morning up to her knees 



