The Bunsby Papers (second series): Irish Echoes

TERRY MAGRA AND THE LEPRECHAUNS.
IRISH ECHOES BY John Brougham Paddy. How do ye do, Misther Aicho? Echo. Mighty well thank you, Paddy.
(SECOND SERIES.)
IRISH ECHOES. BY JOHN BROUGHAM, AUTHOR OF A BASKET OF CHIPS.
NEW YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET, CINCINNATI:—H. W. DERBY & CO. 1856.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by DERBY & JACKSON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
W. H. Tinson, Stereotyper.—Geo. Russell, Printer.—G. W. Alexander, Binder.
Transcriber's Note: Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and inconsistencies have been retained as printed.
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Perhaps the most interesting, if not the most instructive, records of any nation, are its traditions, and legendary tales, and in no part of the world can there be found so varied and whimsical a store, as in Ireland. Every portion of the country; every city, town, and village; nay, almost every family of the real ould stock has its representative share in the general fund.