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> 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. 

 C["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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