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Title: Irish ways
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Barlow, Jane, 1857?-1917
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Publisher: London : George Allen & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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modifiable by cushions,springs, and tyres ; none responds more sensitivelyto the asperities and amenities of the surface overwhich it rolls, or to the peculiar paces of the beastby which it is drawn. A drive along deep-ruttedboreens, perched on a high, ill-balanced, unpaddedseat, with unequal, iron-shod wheels, and a lollopinghorse, prone to stumble, if not come down outright,is an experience that might well remind sportingpeople of a stiff run across country. If we wishedto fix the opposite poles of travelling modes, wemight set at one of them the sixty-horse-power,ninety - miles - an - hour projectile, the transits ofwhich make every highroad a way to dusty death,and at the other the leisurely, jolting car, with itssingle jog-trotting nag, and its load of passengers,whose number may run into two figures. Extreme elasticity in this respect is indeed verycharacteristic of our national conveyance. Not onlydo occasions such as funerals, weddings, and fairs AN OUTOF-THE-WAY COUNTRY ROAD
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OURSELVES AND OUR ISLAND 13 tax its capacity to the uttermost, but dailyemergencies make incessant demands upon it. Infact what with the loan of a lift recurrent on theway, and the doing of commissions for stay-at-home neighbours, a car, however moderately ladenat the outset, seldom reaches its journeys end withan unoccupied cranny to spare. All sorts of thingshitch themselves on to it as it proceeds. A firkinof butter and a spinning-wheel may be sittingwaiting for it at some wild, heathery-borderedcross-roads ; and a bit farther on it may pick upunder a hedge a rush-cased salmon and a couple ofequally silent geese, or perhaps an old woman withsome less fortunate fowl crawking and flutteringbeneath her cloak. For along out-of-the-waycountry roads, where communications are as fitfulas infrequent, persons and property are carried fromplace to place by extemporised systems of make-shifts, ever subject to unlucky delays and incon-venient breaking down of connections, so that theirprogress

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