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with, so credulous, I was going to say gullible. 

 No matter how marvellous the story they hear 

 at the lips of one they have any respect for, 

 down it goes with as ready an access to their 

 convictions, as though it were a quotation from 

 Scripture. 



In proportion to the faith in my prowess as 

 a fisherman, which I began to find was fast 

 getting the upper hand of Dan, in spite of 

 the red-tailed fly controversy, when he found 

 that of the three or four rods on the river 

 mine happened by good luck to be the only 

 successful one, did I become master of his ear, 

 let the story be ever so much of the Baron 

 Munchausen type, that I ventured to extem- 

 porise, as a trial of his credulity. 



There is a politeness, I may almost call it 

 polish, about the Irish peasant in general, you 

 look for in vain elsewhere. Cheery, sanguine 

 fellows, no matter how unkind the fickle god- 

 dess is disposed to be to you, you seldom hear 

 a word of discouragement from them. "A big 



