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The Irish Sketchbook, 1842, by Mr. M.a. Titmarsh
The Irish Sketchbook 1842 by Mr Ma Titmarsh Author:William Makepeace Thackeray General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Notes: This is a black and white 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. FBOM OARLOW TO WATEEFOED. The next morning being fixed for the commencement of our journey towards Waterford, a carriage made its appearance in due- time before the hall door; an amateur stage-coach, with four fine horses, that were to carry us to Cork. The crew of the " drag," for the present, consisted of two young ladies, and two who will not be old, please heaven! for these thirty years ; three gentlemen whose collected weights might amount to fifty-four stone; and one of smaller proportions, being as yet only twelve years old: to these were added a couple of grooms, and a lady's-maid. Subsequently we took in a dozen or so more passengers, who did not seem in the slightest degree to inconvenience the coach or the horses; and thus was formed a tolerably numerous and merry party. The governor took the reins, with his geranium in his button-hole, and the place on the box was quarrelled for without ceasing, and taken by turns. Our day's journey lay through a country more picturesque, though by no means so prosperous and well cultivated as the district through which we had passed on our drive from Dublin. This trip carried us through the county of Carlow, and the town of that name; a wretched place enough, with a fine court-house, and a couple of fine churches; the protestant church, a noble structure ; and the catholic cathedral, said to be built after some continental model. The catholics point to the structure with considerable pride: it was the first, I believe, of the many handsome cathedrals for their worship which have been built of late years in this country by the noble contribu...« less