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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Purcell Papers, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 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.org Title: The Purcell Papers Volume III. (of III.) Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Release Date: May 24, 2008 [EBook #511] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PURCELL PAPERS *** Produced by Judith Boss and Charles Keller THE PURCELL PAPERS. BY THE LATE JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU, AUTHOR OF 'UNCLE SILAS.' With a Memoir by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1880. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data LeFanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873. The Purcell papers. Reprint of the 1880 ed. published by R. Bentley, London. I. Title. PZ3.L518Pu5 (PR4879.L7) 823'.8 71-148813 ISBN 0-404-08880-5 Reprinted from an original copy in the collection of the University of Chicago Library. From the edition of 1880, London First AMS edition published in 1975 Manufactured in the United States of America International Standard Book Number: Complete Set: 0-404-08880-5 Volume III: 0-404-08883-X AMS PRESS INC. NEW YORK, N. Y. 10003 CONTENTS: JIM SULIVAN'S ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT SNOW A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF A TYRONE FAMILY AN ADVENTURE OF HARDRESS FITZGERALD, A ROYALIST CAPTAIN 'THE QUARE GANDER' BILLY MALOWNEY'S TASTE OF LOVE AND GLORY JIM SULIVAN'S ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT SNOW. Being a Ninth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. Jim Sulivan was a dacent, honest boy as you'd find in the seven parishes, an' he was a beautiful singer, an' an illegant dancer intirely, an' a mighty plisant boy in himself; but he had the divil's bad luck, for he married for love, an 'av coorse he niver had an asy minute afther. Nell Gorman was the girl he fancied, an' a beautiful slip of a girl she was, jist twinty to the minute when he married her. She was as round an' as complate in all her shapes as a firkin, you'd think, an' her two cheeks was as fat an' as red, it id open your heart to look
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