Just Irish

JUST IRISH CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS
Lismore Castle
CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS
Author of Cheerful Americans, A Bath in an English Tub, A Holiday Touch, The Knack of It, Little Maude's Mamma, Etc., Etc.,
With many illustrations from photographs by the Author.
BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS 1911
Copyright 1909 and 1910 by Richard G. Badger All rights reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston
Dedicated to my first friends in Ireland, the Todds of 'Derry
THE first edition of this book was printed before I had thought to write a preface.
Now, my readers may not care for a preface, but as a writer I do not feel that a book is completed until the author has said a word or two.
You don't hand a man a glass of wine or even an innocuous apple in silence: you say, Here's looking at you, or, Have an apple? and the recipient says, Thanks, I don't care if I do, or, Thanks, I don't eat apples. In either case you have done what you expected of yourself, and that, let me tell you, is no small satisfaction.