Blind Larry

Author : Lewis MacNamara
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230111636
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Blind Larry, Irish Idylls written by Lewis MacNamara and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...with long handles, were brought to him for mending by a man he did not know, and who waited while he soldered the cracks in them. Maurice's timid nature was easily aroused by the sight of a strange face, and he worked with trembling eagerness, convinced that the stranger who sat in silence over the fire was a spy, a policeman in disguise, or perhaps, an exciseman who suspected him of trafficking with the breakers of the law on Mounteen. But when he had finished the job, and, holding the last tin up to the light, peered closely into it to assure himself that it was made safe, then the unmistakable smell of poteen seemed to leap up from the bottom of the vessel to him. That was a terrible moment for Mauriceen Kate! It flashed upon him in an instant that he had been mending, with more than usual care, a criminal tin can for criminal purposes, and at the same time harbouring at his hearth one of the men whom the police searched for every day. His hands trembled so that he dropped the tin with a clatter which made the man at the fireside turn to enquire, "had he thim done a yet P" Maurice only gaped for answer, and his customer started to his feet in surprise and evidently puzzled; but presently his face brightened, and, with a grim smile, taking up the pannikin, he smelt it loudly; then, smiling more broadly than ever, he drew out a couple of silver coins and flung them down on the table. " Kape yere tongue quiet, Mauriceen Kate," he said as he left the house with his tin cans under his coat, "or mebbe Sergeant M'Guild will be afther larning what ye've been up to." Maurice sat perfectly still until the sound of the retreating footsteps died away up the hill. Then, leaping down from his table, he...