358 Forethought and Order little regarded. 



The carriage most in vogue is the jaunting 

 car, which is calculated to carry four persons 

 and the driver ; kind-hearted as the Irish are 

 in general, they appear to have little feeling or 

 consideration for the brute creation. Their 

 horses are hard driven, and ill taken care of 

 the stabling is universally bad, and the groom- 

 ing execrable. We complain not we con- 

 tinue to get through our difficulties, and laugh 

 at them but a night does not pass in which I 

 do not feel very severely on account of our 

 poor horses. 



Two causes, from which spring most of the 

 comforts of life, are unknown here I mean 

 forethought and order ; if there be a bell, for 

 instance, the chances are in favor of there 

 being no pull to it, or that the wires are broken. 

 The hours are preposterously late, the dinner 

 hour is generally six o'clock. In former times 

 the Irish are represented as having two meals a 

 day, one in the winter before day-light, the 

 other, and principal one, late in the evening. 

 At Galway the play did not commence till 

 after eight, and was not finished till near two 

 the next morning. 



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