OINEY O'SHEA. 



They said she had speed I believed them, 



And made a swell bet in the book. 

 When she finished, well, you should have seen her, 



Although she was not worth a look. 

 They took her home for the winter, 



And gave her the best in the barn, 

 And now all they have to show for it, 

 Are the bills and an old stable yarn. 



Oiney O'Shea was a resident of 

 Irishtown. His three brothers, 

 Mickey, Terry and Paddy, were 

 located on adjoining- farms. All 

 of them were well-to-do, as the 

 term went in that section, and all 

 of them were hard-working, honest 



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people. The four had the repu- 

 tation of never missing a fair or a horse race for miles 

 around, and it was a sorry day when they failed to 

 have a "bit of blood" to sport the green cap, which was 

 the colors of the quartette. 



Irishtown cannot be found on the map. It was 

 applied to a bunch of farms near Oxford Station in the 

 County of Grenville. Every man in it was supposed 

 to have come from the Emerald Isle, some of them 

 leaving it, as Oiney would say when feeling his oats, 

 "for their country's good," while others, to use the 

 western term, "emigrated for their health." It was 

 understood that the O'Sheas were identified with one 

 of the upheavals which are so prevalent in Ireland, but 



