LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



And they did. QThey led Tyndale out under the blue 

 sky and tied him to a stake set in the ground. Around 

 his feet they piled brush, and also all of his books and 

 papers that they could find. A chain was put around 

 his neck and hooked tight to the post. The fagots 

 were piled high, and the fire -was lighted <& jt 

 " He was not burned to death," argued one of the 

 priests who was present "he was not burned to 

 death, he just drew up his feet and hanged himself in 

 the chain, & so was choked he was that stubborn ! ' 

 QThe father of John Tyndall was an Orangeman and 

 had in a glass case a bit of the flag carried at the Bat- 

 tle of the Boyne. It is believed, with reason, that the 

 original flag had in it about ten thousand square yards 

 of material. Tyndale the Orangeman was of so un- 

 compromising a type, that he occasionally arrested 

 Catholics on general principles, like the Irishman who 

 beat the Jew under the mistaken idea that he had 

 something to do with crucifying " Our Saviour." " But 

 that was two thousand years ago," protested the Jew. 

 Q"Niver moind I just heard av it take that and 

 that!" 



Zeal not wisely directed is a true Irish trait. It will 

 not do to say that the Irish have a monopoly on stu- 

 pidity, yet there have been times when I thought they 

 nearly cornered the market. 



I once had charge of a gang of green Irishmen at a 

 lumber camp. I started a night school for their bene- 

 fit, as their schooling had stopped at subtraction. 

 One evening they got it into their heads that I was an 

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