Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Gems of the Bog: A Tale of the Irish Peasantry
The society of Killyrooke, humble as it was, boasted of its distinctions as much as did that of neighboring towns. The farmer so called -sat upon the pinnacle of the little social fabric. He leased a bit of land, and owned a donkey, two or three cows, and pigs whose name was legion. The next grade were the laborers, many of them meriting that name only in harvest, living as they did in idleness and want most of the year while the lowliest of all were the professional beggars, who lived on the bounty of the gentry and larger farmers in the surrounding region, and who made their headquarters in Killyrooke, finding shelter in dilapidated huts and cowvllollscs, or with the tender-hearted peasants.
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