Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. Read online

  Produced by Al Haines

  [Frontispiece: OLD FLYNN, MOVING ALONG THE VERGE, BECAME IDYLLIC]

  Further Experiences of an

  Irish R.M.

  By

  E. [OE]. Somerville and Martin Ross

  Authors of "Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.," "Some Irish Yesterdays," "All on the Irish Shore," "The Real Charlotte," etc. etc. etc.

  With 35 Illustrations by E. [OE]. Somerville

  Longmans, Green, and Co.

  39 Paternoster Row, London

  New York, Bombay, and Calcutta

  1908

  All rights reserved

  _BY THE SAME AUTHORS_

  SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M.

  With 31 Illustrations by E. [OE]. SOMERVILLE. Crown 8vo, 6s.

  SOME IRISH YESTERDAYS

  With 51 Illustrations by E. [OE]. SOMERVILLE. Crown 8vo, 6s.

  AN IRISH COUSIN

  Crown 8vo, 6s.

  THE REAL CHARLOTTE

  Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

  THE SILVER FOX

  Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

  ALL ON THE IRISH SHORE

  With 10 Illustrations by E. [OE]. SOMERVILLE. Crown 8vo, 6s.

  LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

  LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

  CONTENTS

  I. THE PUG-NOSED FOX II. A ROYAL COMMAND III. POISSON D'AVRIL IV. "THE MAN THAT CAME TO BUY APPLES" V. A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE VI. THE BOAT'S SHARE VII. THE LAST DAY OF SHRAFT VIII. "A HORSE! A HORSE!" (Part I.) IX. "AHORSE! A HORSE!" (Part II.) X. SHARPER THAN A FERRET'S TOOTH XI. OWENEEN THE SPRAT XII. THE WHITEBOYS

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  HALF-TONE

  Old Flynn, moving along the verge, became idyllic . . . . Frontispiece

  Suspicious of an ill-timed pleasantry

  "Take me out of this"

  Whizzed like a driven grouse past the combatants

  The guard put his hand over his mouth

  "And not a brown farthing more would he give"

  "I'm dashed if she hasn't got Sullivan's pony"

  He crowned the arrangement with the bottle of potheen

  A trayful of burning sods of turf

  He did not deny himself a most dissolute wink

  Maria's performance was faultless

  The Modulator opened with a long-drawn and nasal cadenza

  "Did ye see the police!"

  "Is that my darlin' Major Yeates?" shouted the cook

  "I will walk--I should really prefer it"

  Flurry and I put in a blazing September day on the mountain

  Braney's Lake

  An intricate and variously moving tide of people

  "Them hounds are in my family, seed and breed, this hundred years"

  "I'll go bail 'twas him that picked me wife's fashionable cocks"

  IN THE TEXT

  The egregious Slipper

  The victim came

  "Ye have them in great form, Michael"

  Pure ecstasy stretched his grin from ear to ear

  "They're lovely fish altogether! they're leppin' fresh!"

  The invalid removed herself

  Con Brickley

  "Let the divil clear me out of the sthrand!"

  A witness to be proud of

  His mornings were spent in proffering Irish phrases

  The Sergeant's manner was distressingly apologetic

  "That's a great sign of fine weather when a horse will lie down in wather that way"

  My wife came and asked me if I would take her to the workhouse

  "Thim's no joke, sir, thim's Sprats!"

  "He knows what's what!" said the Locum

  FURTHER EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M.