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CONTENTS

I.[WHERE THE WILD GEESE FLY]
II.[PATSY]
III.[THE FORM IN THE WOOD]
IV.[CON COGAN]
V.[THE MAN IN THE TREE]
VI.[THE HIRING OF PATSY]
VII.[MRS FINNEGAN’S BOY]
VIII.[THE BATTLE IN THE YARD]
IX.[A FACE AT THE WINDOW]
X.[THE GHOST CARRIAGE]
XI.[THE FIRST GUEST]
XII.[MR FANSHAWE]
XIII.[THE MEET OF THE HOUNDS]
XIV.[A KISS ON THE STAIRS]
XV.[GOING IN TO DINNER]
XVI.[IN THE “SCRUBBERY”]
XVII.[THE STORY OF THE PIG]
XVIII.[ AN INTERRUPTED FEAST]
XIX.[SHAN]
XX.[THE MEET OF THE BEAGLES]
XXI.[MR BOXALL GETS IN THE WAY]
XXII.[LOVE]
XXIII.[THE WILD DUCKS]
XXIV.[NAILING UP THE HOLLY]
XXV.[A POTENTIAL POET]
XXVI.[THE SPIRIT OF IRELAND]
XXVII.[MIDWINTER NIGHT’S DREAM]
XXVIII.[MR LYBURN]
XXIX.[THE TRAP]
XXX.[“PUT THE DONKEY TO”]
XXXI.[THE FOX AND THE HOUNDS]
XXXII.[THE FOX TAKES EARTH]
XXXIII.[BILLY CROOM]
XXXIV.[MR MURPHY IN EXCELSIS]
XXXV.[INFLUENZA]
XXXVI.[PREPARATIONS]
XXXVII.[FLIGHT]
XXXVIII.[THE OFF HUB]
XXXIX.[A MAN OF RESOURCE]

PATSY

CHAPTER I
WHERE THE WILD GEESE FLY

A flock of wild geese flying across the sunset far away, remote, fantastic, the only living things visible in a world filling with shadows, lent the last touch of beauty to the vast and lonely moors.

“They’re makin’ for the pools of Cloyne, sir,” said the keeper.

Mr Fanshawe watched the flock pass and vanish in the amber distance like a wreath of smoke. Away to the left, covering themselves with night and gloom, stood the hills of Glynn, where the golden eagle still has its eyrie, and the wild goat its home. From there, away to the west, the great moors stretched to the hills of Cloyne.