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ways I should be lavin* here as it is me station, 

 though I am regretful to be part with such pleasant 

 company." 



They will fight like demons sometimes in a 

 railway carriage, the compartments on the West 

 Clare do not go to the top and I remember seeing 

 sticks whirhng and heavy blows falling next door 

 to us one day, but the whole lot staggered off, 

 cut and bruised arm-in-arm at Ennistimon to 

 get a dhrink together. 



Mr. Westropp told me he saw two very drunken 

 men who had had a row at a fair. One had reached 

 the helpless stage and the other was lifting him 

 up on his cart. 



*' Just putting him there to hit him a belt or 

 knock him out me own convayance," he explained 

 thickly. 



" Did you strike the man ? " a judge asked the 

 defendant in a violent assault case, the plaintiffs 

 whole head had been crushed in. 



" I did not, me lord. Argyin' we were, an' 

 maybe I beckoned me sthick at him, there's some 

 has terrible tendther skulls on them that the wind 

 of a sthick'd do for." 



The judge looked very severely towards the 

 bound up plaintiff and sighed. It appeared to 

 have been almost a storm, that wind. 



To take direction of route from anyone in the 

 stone-wall country requires thought. There is no 

 right or left, nothing but est and wesht. 



