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he, " it's Mr. S 's domain, but he doesn't reside 



there since he died, about two years ago. Sure, yer 

 anner, does not yer anner know that that's the place 

 where the coach from Dublin refreshes itself with 

 harses ? " How I should know, I don't know, for I 

 had never been on the road before ; but he seemed 

 to imagine that as he knew everybody else must or 

 ought to know where the coach from Dublin refreshed 

 itself with harses. 



A few more words of my friends of the Emerald 

 Isle before I close this subject, for I own I look back 

 upon my days spent amongst them with no little 

 pleasure, for I invariably found them civil, obliging 

 most hospitable, and last, though not least, scrupulously 

 honest, and I can say with truth I never remember 

 hearing of a robbery, or dishonest act. Paddy may 

 have, and no doubt has, his faults, like other mortals ; 

 and the fact that he is in the habit occasionally of 

 potting his landlord, or his landlord's agent, is a crime 

 of a most heinous nature, and one which his naturally 

 good feeling would not prompt him to do unless he 

 met with encouragement from those who ought to 

 persuade him from such acts of barbarity. 



However, into this I will not enter, for it is a 

 subject which has puzzled the wisest heads, and for 



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