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quiet beauties, the overhanging hills of the 

 southern shore. 



The village or town of Pettigoe is situated 

 at the northernmost point of the lake, about 

 half-way to Enniskillen ; it is not built on 

 the water's edge, but on the banks of a 

 little tributary to the lake, a small moun- 

 tain stream, which, though still somewhat 

 black and discoloured, had already begun to 

 shrink back within the summer limits of its 

 stony channel. 



It was not yet seven o'clock when the 

 cars rattled up to the inn-door. Ireland, 

 unquestionably, is a late-rising country : the 

 morning service on Sundays always begins 

 in the afternoon, and it would seem as if 

 everything took its tone from that. The 

 people seem never to realise the fact that 

 the sun gets up in their country before noon. 

 At Belleek the English habits and energy 

 of the fishermen had worked a temporary 

 revolution, but Pettigoe was far beyond the 

 sphere of their influence. It was therefore 

 not without considerable delay, and the 

 strenuous exertions of all hands, that the 

 party was at last furnished with a scanty 

 and insufficient breakfast. 



