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Excerpt from From the Land of the Shamrock
Wm people go away from Clonmalroan, they go away, as a rule, very thoroughly. Their ab sence is an absence more complete than that of other persons from other places less out of the world and behind the times. Once any trav eller's departing form has been beheld pass round the turn in the deep-banked boreen, or watched dwindle into a speck on the straight road streak ing the wide bog-land, the chances are that little news of him will reach his former neighbours, till some day that same speck is espied growing into human shape again along that same road, and ac quaintances remark to each other in the course of conversation And so Big Pat Byrne -to put case is after comin' home wid himself.
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