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current in England or Scotland " ; and we would 

 submit that whatever dialectical interest they may 

 once have possessed has been effaced by much hand- 

 ling. We could wish their places filled by more of 

 Dr. Joyce's flashlights upon the Ireland of his youth. 

 When he says, " In my boyhood days I knew a great, 

 large, sinewy, active woman who lived up in the 

 mountain gap, and was universally known as Thunder 

 the Colt from Poulaflaikeen," we long for further 

 details. If we venture to disagree with Dr. Joyce in 

 his assertion that " Colt is often pronounced Cowlt," 

 we do so in the spirit of the Munster beggar-woman 

 who delicately rebuked a defaulting benefactor in the 

 Avords, " Child of grace ! It's not for the sake of a 

 pinny you and me'd fall out ! " 



E. CE. S. AND Martin Ross. 



1910. 



