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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SULLIVAN-S BARGAIN. ' So I hear as yer father's afther selling the ould ass, ' said Mrs. Flynn to Judy Sullivan as they toiled uphill together from their mutual well. ' I'm not sure about selling him, Mrs. Flynn dear; 'twas more like swopping, / take it.' ' An' how was that, acushlq ?' ' Ye see, me father has had it on his mind to get shut of Jerry this good while back; he was gettin' a bit stiff, and he thought av1 he waited too long, he'd be getting too ould entirely.' ' Oh, faix, he was ould enough to be valuable, ' rejoined Mrs. Flynn, with a derisive laugh. ' Isn't he the wan age, as yer brother Matt?as is in Ameriky?and that will bring him in for five and twenty year, though he is not on the parish register ? Well I mind the two a grey foal and a fat lump av a baby, when I come to Thady's Corner, a young slip av a girl meself.' Mrs. Flynn was now a stout, elderly woman, with a pair of somewhat rollicking brown eyes, and a brimming tin can in either hand, whilst her companion was ' a slip of a girl, ' dressed in a washed-out lilac cotton, with curly red hair and a freckled face, who carried with anxious care a brown teapot and a black kettle. The pair were celebrities in their humble way?the matron for her long tongue, and the maiden for her light foot. They lived almost next door to one another, in a cluster of cabins, too insignificant to claim the title of village. and known by the name of ' Thady's Corner, ' although there was no corner to be seen; on the contrary, the little gathering was boldly perched on the side of a bare hill, about five miles from Killarney. ' And what sort of a dale did yer father make out over the haste ?' resumed Mrs. Flynn. ' Oh, dale, indeed 'Twas a travelling tinker as came round one day last week when the old Jerry
| ISBN-13 | 9780217075107 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021707510X |
| Weight | 2.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.42 In |
| List Price | $41.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 640 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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