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For Britain's Soldiers; A Contribution to the Needs of Our Fighting Men and Their Families
For Britain's Soldiers A Contribution to the Needs of Our Fighting Men and Their Families Author:Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Methuen Subjects: English fiction Short stories, English Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and whit... more »e OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LITTLE BLUE JUG By B. M. CROKER THERE were, in fact, a pair of them, but as one had long lost both spout and handle, it had subsided into humble retirement behind a flaring green and yellow dish -- the pride of the whole dresser, and was remembered no more. The jugs, plate, dresser, and cottage containing them were the property of Martin Leary, fisherman, boatman, and poacher, better known as Martin the Miser. He lived on the side of a high road in Kerry, and from his half-door commanded as fine a view of river and lake as anyone need wish to see. Martin was a hard-featured, broad-shouldered man of sixty years of age, who worked steadily, and never drank or squandered. His neighbours were at a loss to imagine what on the living earth he did with his earnings; and as he was inclined to be " dark and close in himself," they set him down as a miser -- a character that possibly enjoys less popularity in Ireland than in any other country. In '47, when Martin was a boy of twenty, he and his had sore reason to remember the great famine, which almost depopulated the kingdom of Kerry -- apoor enough kingdom at its best! Whole villages were deserted owing to death and emigration. Do not their roofless walls and grass-grown roads remain unto the present day ? Martin and his mother were among the miserable remnant of a town-land who had shipped to America. There for ten years he...« less