CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I., ] [II., ] [ III., ] [ IV., ] [ V., ] [ VI., ] [ VII., ] [ VIII., ] [ IX., ] [ X.]
[List of Illustrations]
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THROUGH CONNEMARA
IN A
GOVERNESS CART.

BY
THE AUTHORS OF “AN IRISH COUSIN.”
Illustrated by W. W. Russell, from Sketches by
th Œ. Somerville.
LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN & CO., LIMITED,
13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.
—
1893.

The following pages, with their accompanying illustrations, originally appeared in the columns of “The Ladies’ Pictorial,” and are here reprinted by permission of the Proprietors.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
[“IN THE SECLUSION OF THE BACK BEDROOM”][5]
[“IF YE BATE HIM ANY MORE HE’LL LIE DOWN”][19]
[“SHE’S A LITTLE GIDDY ABOUT THE HEAD, MISS”][28]
[“WE VIEWED THE STOWING OF THE GOVERNESS-CART”][31]
[“MR FLAHERTY’S BOY WAS DEMONSTRATING WITH A PITCH-FORK”][35]
[“WE PURSUED OUR WAY TO RECESS”][39]
[A FISHERMAN AT RECESS][43]
[THE TWO HOTEL DOGS][49]
[“NOW”][53]
[“BALLINAHINCH CAME SLOWLY INTO SIGHT”][65]
[“WE HEARD WHEELS CLOSE AT HAND”][71]
[“HANGING ON EACH TO OUR REIN”][85]
[“SITTING ON LITTLE STOOLS INSIDE THE BIG FIREPLACE”][97]
[“REVEALED A MONSTROUS GREY GOOSE”][105]
[MR. MITCHELL HENRY’S PLACE, KYLEMORE CASTLE][119]
[JACK’S FATHER][125]
[AT TULLY FAIR][129]
[RENVYLE HOUSE HOTEL][141]
[“IT WAS THE BROAD WINDOW SEAT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MOUNTAINS, THAT TURNED THE SCALE”][147]
[“SHE WAS AN AMERICAN LADY”][149]
[THE RENVYLE DONKEY][158]
[“DOWN THE HILL OF SALRUCK”][169]
[“THE HOLY WELL, SALRUCK”][175]
[“EIGHT O’CLOCK BREAKFAST, PLEASE, AND CALL US SHARP AT SEVEN”][191]
[“THE REGRET WITH WHICH WE PAID OUR HOTEL BILL WAS NOT WHOLLY MERCENARY, BUT WAS BLENDED WITH THE FINER PATHOS OF FAREWELL”][197]