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Copyright, 1914,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
THOMAS BODKIN
CONTENTS
BOOK I
PAGE
Patsy Mac Cann 1
BOOK II
Eileen Ni Cooley 85
BOOK III
Brien O'Brien 141
BOOK IV
Mary Mac Cann 225
PATSY MAC CANN
CHAPTER I
"Will you leave that donkey alone,"said Patsy Mac Cann to his daughter."I never heard the like of it," he continuedtestily. "I tell you the way youdo be going on with the ass is enoughto make a Christian man swear, so itis."
"You let me be," she replied. "If I wasdoing hurt or harm to you I wouldn't mind,and if I am fond of the ass itself what doesit matter to anybody?"
"It's this way, that I don't like to see awoman kissing an ass on the snout, it's notnatural nor proper."
"A lot you know about natural andproper. Let you leave me alone now; and,besides that, doesn't the ass like it?"
"That's not a reason; sure it doesn'tmatter in the world what an ass likes or dislikes,[pg 4]and, anyhow, an ass doesn't like anythingexcept carrots and turnips."
"This one does," said she stoutly.
"And a body might be kissing an assuntil the black day of doom and he wouldn'tmind it."
"This one minds.