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MOLLY'S PEASANTS.
MOLLY AND KITTY,
OR
PEASANT LIFE IN IRELAND;
WITH
OTHER TALES.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN,
BY
Trauermantel.
BOSTON:
CROSBY, NICHOLS, & CO.,
111 Washington Street,
1856.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
Crosby, Nichols, and Company,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.
DEDICATION.
My Dear Ernest:—
Although it is highly improbable that your happy and shelteredchildhood and youth will ever be checkered by the struggles withfortune and the world painted in the following Scenes from Life, yet Iam sure they cannot fail to interest you, increase your sympathy withall who suffer, and teach you to rejoice in the well-earned triumphsof uprightness, perseverance, patient study, benevolence, and theforgiveness of injuries. While reading them, will you not sometimesbestow a kind remembrance upon your friend and cousin,
THE TRANSLATOR.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| MOLLY AND KITTY, BY OLGA ESCHENBACH | 1 |
| THE YOUNG ARTIST, BY MARIA BURG | 93 |
| BENEVOLENCE AND GRATITUDE, BY OLGA ESCHENBACH | 239 |
MOLLY AND KITTY,
OR
PEASANT LIFE IN IRELAND.
CHAPTER I.
In one of the most desolate regions ofIreland, scarcely ever visited even by the most inquisitive travelleror the most eager sportsman, stood, nearly sixty years ago, a row oflow and miserable hovels. They were formed of rough stones rudelypiled together, and, at a little distance, looked more like theheaps of stones which in ancient times were thrown together to markthe spot upon whi