X DEDICATORY EPISTLE. 



the remarkable character that I describe ; 

 but poor Micky Rowan was remarkable for 

 nothing, except the greatest amount of in- 

 offensive stupidity that ever was possessed 

 by genuine Celt. 



The drawings which illustrate this record 

 of our acts, are selections from some forty 

 or fifty sketches of the place made by my 

 brother. In all our wanderings it has been 

 his custom to keep a sort of pictorial jour- 

 nal, commemorating by pencil the scenes 

 and events of our travel, quite as well as I 

 could record them by pen ; and these are a 

 few stray leaves from his log. 



You will say, perhaps, that a description 

 of " Days on the Erne," omitting all men- 

 tion of the renters of the fishery, their hos- 

 pitable house, and the merry evenings we 

 used to pass there, must needs be an imper- 

 fect one. Admitted. But, without taking 

 an American liberty with the sanctity oi 

 private life, I could not very well describe 



