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Title: Candle and Crib

Author: K. F. Purdon

Illustrator: Beatrice Elvery

Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24310]

Language: English

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CANDLE AND CRIB

[Illustration]

By K. F. PURDON.

Illustrated by BEATRICE ELVERY.

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

THE FOLK OF FURRY FARM

[Illustration: "AS SOON AS HE WAS GONE,
DIDN'T THE WOMAN THROW DOWN HER KNITTING,
AND LAID HER HEAD UPON HER KNEES, AND CRIED"]

MAUNSEL & COMPANY, LTD.

DUBLIN AND LONDON . 1914

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. MOLONEY'S 1

II. THE STABLE 10

III. THE LETTER 18

IV. THE CRIB 34

CANDLE AND CRIB

CHAPTER I

MOLONEY'S

It would be hard to find a pleasanter, more friendly-looking place in
all Ardenoo than Moloney's of the Crooked Boreen, where Big Michael and
the wife lived, a piece up from the high-road. And well might you call
the little causey "crooked" that led to their door! for rough and stony
that _boreen_ was, twisting and winding along by the bog-side, this way
and that way, the same as if it couldn't rightly make up its mind where
it wanted to bring you. So it was all the more of a surprise when you
did get to M