Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, Vol. 3 of 3 I remember being greatly amused by a coun try glover once saying to me, in reply to a com pliment conferred upon his skilful workman ship, while national energy danced merrily in his eyes, It isn't the sewing with which I stitches together the skins of the poor dumb bastes, that I prides myself on - No, no; I've some thing, God be praised! Better nor that to look up to, poor as I am the blood of the o'neils goes fair and softly through every vein in my bodyf' Indeed I I replied; then how came you to be a glover P. 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.