432 Mill-street Fair Day. 



every sense of propriety in the living, as it is a 

 desertion of duty and want of respect to the 

 dead. 



It was the fair day at Mill-street, which 

 necessarily thronged it with people and cattTe. 

 We had been much amused on seeing several 

 instances of two or three men with monstrous 

 cudgels, sweating under their cumbrous trusties, 

 or great coats, driving to the fair a couple of 

 lean sheep or goats ; the price of which would, 

 perhaps, not much exceed their expenses. The 

 condition of the stock exposed for sale corre- 

 sponded with the miserable culture of the 

 country. We met a military butcher conveying 

 to slaughter, what he called, " a fat mutton ;" 

 in any other place his compliment on the con- 

 dition of the animal might have passed as a 

 reproach, for the poor beast was but skin and 

 bone. 



We had ten miles to travel hither after break- 

 fast, having then come sixteen from Killarney. 

 Great improvements have been made, and are 

 now making, on all this line of road, which 

 will considerably shorten the distance. 



The country to Macroom is very hilly ; at 

 two miles from the town we began to descend, 



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