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inventions, an outside car, against every car coming 

 in an opposite direction. All of a sudden he pulled 

 up within a few yards of the bridge, and getting off 

 the car began to turn his horse round. " What are 

 you going to do ?" said I. "I want to go to the 

 railroad." "Ah, no fear, yer anner, nivir fear, yer 

 anner ; sit still, yer anner. Sure it's only the mare 

 that won't face the bridge ; sure it's turning her round 

 that I am ; sure I'll turn her round and back her 

 over ; sure she'll think she's going the other way." 

 This he did, and backed her to a few yards the 

 other side of the bridge, when he again turned her 

 round, and we proceeded in safety to the station. 



" I'll engage I'd niver have got her over the bridge 

 at all," said Paddy ; " she'd niver face the bridge till 

 I found this out, and sure now, as yer anner sees, 

 she goes quite gintle." 



This was a clever invention if you were in good 

 time for the train, but if, as some people always 

 contrive to be, you were late for the train, it might 

 be a somewhat inconvenient way of catching it. 



Paddy's mode of expressing himself was also at 

 times curious. On one occasion, when passing a 

 large white house, not far from Killaloe, I asked the 

 driver whose house it was. " Sure, yer anner," said 



