ZOOLOGICAL ROOM—BRITISH MUSEUM.
CHAPTER XXV.
IRELAND.
“ ’Tis the most distressful country that ever yet was seen,
They’re hanging men and women there for the wearin’ of the green.”
From France the gay, France the prosperous, France the delightful, to Ireland the sad, Ireland the poor, Ireland the oppressed, is a tremendous jump. Contrasts are necessary, and my readers are going to have all they want of them.
