Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xv parents and children the bond which unites parents and children in Ireland is very tender; it is the passionate love of a French mother for her son--only the Irish woman has usually half a dozen young creatures--sometimes more--to love and look after, whilst the French woman usually has one or two. The Irish father loves his children with as tender an affection as a French father. When a family is very poor and the problem how to feed all these mouths frightens me, the father comes to tell me with pride that this time his wife has twins. He beams. A woman, whom we knew, stopped us on the road to complain of her son. The bad boy had got married without consulting her. She had such a hard struggle to bring him up and to pected that when he was grown up he would work for her and help her. He fell in love and got married; and the old woman went on abusing her son and daughter-in-law. Luckily the daughter-in-law had a small cottage of her own, and the young people were living by themselves. My husband tried to appease the old woman and failed,--even when we were far from her her voice resounded in our ear. A year later we were on the same road, and the old woman came to tell us that she was the grandmother of two lovely boys. She had forgiven her son and his wife in the joy of welcoming the twins. The grief of parents is bitter when death snatches away one of their little creatures. A poor man from Murrisk used to work for us. I looked on him as half silly. He was sure to fail in everything he undertook, and even managed to get upset in a boat (lent by a neighbour) on a calm sea, barely escaping drowning. His stupidity was known all over the village, and yet one of the prettiest and most attractive girls of the neighbourhood became...
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