174 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



grimages in tight boots was as much as ever I could 

 endure and retain a pious frame of mind, without 

 adding the torture of dwarf peas. Patrick, however, 

 had great faith in dwarf peas, because they required 

 no bushes, and had consequently planted little else, 

 so that our taste of Daniel O Kourkes was tantalizing. 

 After the latter were gone we bought the peas for 

 our table in the village, while I had the satisfaction 

 of feeding Patrick the dry, tasteless &quot; dwarfs&quot; all 

 summer, till he thought the &quot;dwarf pays weren t 

 good at all, at all.&quot; 



