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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Waysiders, by Seumas O'Kelly This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Waysiders Author: Seumas O'Kelly Release Date: September 15, 2004 [eBook #13472] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAYSIDERS*** E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Michael Punch, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team WAYSIDERS Stories of Connacht by SEUMAS O'KELLY Author of "The Shuiler's Child," "The Lady of Deerpark," "The Bribe," &c. New York MCMXVIII Contents The Can with the Diamond Notch Both Sides of the Pond The White Goat The Sick Call The Shoemaker The Rector The Home-Coming A Wayside Burial The Gray Lake The Building THE CAN WITH THE DIAMOND NOTCH I [Illustration: _Festus Clasby_] The name stood out in chaste white letters from the black background of the signboard. Indeed the name might be said to spring from the landscape, for this shop jumped from its rural setting with an air of aggression. It was a commercial oasis on a desert of grass. It proclaimed the clash of two civilisations. There were the hills, pitched round it like the galleries of some vast amphitheatre, rising tier upon tier to the blue of the sky. There was the yellow road, fantastic in its frolic down to the valley. And at one of its wayward curves was the shop, the shop of Festus Clasby, a foreign growth upon the landscape, its one long window crowded with sombre merchandise, its air that of established, cob-web respectability. Inside the shop was Festus Clasby himself, like some great masterpiece in its ancient frame. He was the product of the two civilisations, a charioteer who drove the two fiery steeds of Agricolo and Trade with a hand of authority. He was a man of lands and of shops. His dark face, framed in darker hair and beard, was massive and square. Behind the luxurious growth of hair the rich blood glowed on the clear skin. His chest had breadth, his limbs were great, showing girth at the hips and power at the calves. His eyes were large and dark, smouldering in soft velvety tones. The nose was long, the nostrils e
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