Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, Vol. 2 of 3 How very, very delightful is a small kind ness, garnished by a little bit of attery. The church upon the opposite hill became absolutely picturesque; and so would have been the vil lage, - but for the pigs; an old lady with thir teen young ones had taken undisputed posses sion of a kish of potatoes under shelter of what was called a cottage door, while its kind mistress, intent upon my not being incommoded by the sun-beams, either did not see, or seeing did not heed their ravages. Ithought of the happy pigs of Mullinavat, who have the clean straw to lie upon, while their lords and masters put up with the dirty.-who eat that Irish luxury, a maley potato, While their mistresses are content with the damp ones, - and who go to bed by candlelight, while the family sit in the dark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."