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Dublin is very delightful city, and any one
can Kill week in it in a very satisfactory man
ner. fmade away with pretty nearly two and
OF what saw during that extended period some
thing may possibly be said some other time. The
thing have at present to talk about is Lord
ROSES telescope, though we must 60 through
some preliminary chat before coming to it, This
wonderful machine is a good way from Dublin,
as much as scventy-cight miles in direction
towards the centre of Ireland, and as can prove,
It is quite feat getting to it. 1t is situated at
Parsonstown, name which strangers will per-
haps find difficult to discover in any ordinary
map. seeing that Parsonstown is only designa-
ton adopted from the surname of the Rose IA
mily, and that the old authorized name of the
place is Birr.
Brr or Parsonstown, is all one /: the question
was. how were we to get to it. On making all
due inquiries, learned that the best way was
/ to take railway train to a certain town from
thirty to forty miles Off and that there we should
certainly get stage coach to carry us forward.
Very reasonable looking information this, consi-
dering that it was given by a clerk in a coach
office. who might be presumed to know all about
it ;and TO show our confidence in the wisdom
of this Solomon-we, that is madame and myself
procured tickets for the promised coach
Next morning. accordingly, we were off. 1t
was fine day as any we had seen in Ireland.
Surprising that the noble proprietor OF the teles
cope will permit us TO look into it, what a capital
view ofthe moon we shall have to night This
notion put us into remarkably good spirits. and
disposed To look indulgently on the peat mos
Sos and other Indigenous embellishments Of the
scenery hurried along on our Journey. The
railway. iI.. 'H- really Il wonderful work of
art-not al l' irish IN either construction or
management The gauge was Just the thing
halt way between the narrow and tho broad
what nice carriages the Innings of 'abnet how
easy one can sit ; room for four an side ]
hope the concern pays 1T deserves to be encou-
ragged with such railways Ireland will yet be a
great country. Such benevolent communlngs
lasted all through the cultivated and bog region,
and brought as to that great fiat expansc of ma
turcd sward called the Curragh of Kildare,
through which the railway has been remorse-
lessly cut. The Curragh was of course very
much admired, not because it forms a trst-rate
race course, of which fact fellow traveller
spoke with national pride, but for its lively green
pasture. on which lots of beautiful sheep-whitc-
faced cheviots-were comfortably grazing.
Having passed the Curragh, nothing further
attracted our attention till we arrived at our des-
tined station-bui where was the coach No
thing Of the wheel genus was visible but a
wheclbarrow and the wheebarrow was declared
to be engaged
Where said I to the ticket-taking man, is
the coach to Parsonstown ? don't sec it. I'M
less, to be sure, it is that barrow there with tie
turf basket 2
'Ah, your honor. the coach is gone three
hours sin; that was the wrong train entirely
you came by; t..cre will be no coach now ill
Saturday.
Then what a clever person that was who
sold me the tickets Are there no sort Of car.
any where to be had Where in all the worlt
is the town?'
WHY, sir. there tits up yonder fornckt you
pointing to a collection of mud novels and
houses about three-quarters of mile off, at the
I top of rising-ground.
Daring this colloquy a crew of young tat
\ ter donations, any one Of whom would have
served as a ready-madc scarccrow, were at Gaz'
on the luggage, eager to act the part of porters
and selecting couple OF these obliging Cos
soons. we trudged on behind them towards tn,
venerable city before us
The approach by which we assembled i
A through suburb of mud built cottages, Thu
more arstocratc of which possess chimney
and windows middle order dispense with tn
windows and an inferior grade seem to be sa
. isied with having only "A door--a common eXi
= for men. women, children, pigs. and smoke
: The Gets of Gaul had not very different orde
ofarchitcct. On disen,anging ourselves from
this suburban approach, in which. as travellers
we were objects of considerable interest, w
made orr debut in the grand Place of the town
widish kind of street, crowded AT the time will
country people. carts, cattle, and other material
= of market-day. in which were included severa
o stalls for the sale of men and women $ appare
I having all the appearance of an inn olatio
4 from St Giles. Through this gay melange on
h two faithful gossoOns conducted us to the prl
t cipal hotel in the place, house with tolerabl
K brisk exterior, and seductive promise of car
!, on the Sign-board.
c Nor was the promise altogether sham. TIL
c hustle of the landlord, yonng man, whom
f shall introduce as Mr.. lIyacinth O'Bralagar
r was inspriting. He had car, which woul
; be at our service in a moment he would sen
i for it Immediately : it had only gone to brin
h home a cart Of turf-we, since he thought {
e it, he would 20 and fetch it himself And so h
r did, and the horse was forthwith troted up
door, and yoked to car by variety of rope an
e leather fastenngs. The faith OF an lriShman
l. boundless. O'Bralagan, in producing this elt
n giant equipage, had doubtless "A sincere leliet i
= lis powers 81 ocomotion. Both horse and ca
had been over the road fifty times, and they ha
;. never yet failed, thank God ~ SO, taking Ii
II word for itoif we set, bag and baggage, madam
1i by way of precautlon, again st the jos, holdln
HrHl! on ny my rlSht arm WINE inc seat q
the other side, to keep the vessel in trim, wa
occupied by as queer a specimen of the Jeh
species as ever druv ksh from bog. hay
y been told. for ! haven't much personal know
ledge of the subject that there is no fear
Irish horses RESTING, provided you get them lai
ly under -. and II little warm in barnes
v The great bling l. ~ sc them a-going. la
m somewhere h'e| oi tha arrlica ion of a red h.
3 poker ;bui on tie Present occasion there vi
~ fortunately no need Of this ancient and hop
OF d'Sn'e!, incentive TO locomOton. The blood
&c the poor hack was little up, and. to do it in
IN nee, II di IT. very best To get on the Place va
n, cleared, IN not bad style, and at "A rough pace
as wound our way through the western suburb
re the town. Advancing on its journey, howeve
r. the animal began to see what was medtated
nothing less than stage of fifteen or sixtee
nd miles. This was deception. On being coaxt
nc into the journey, it had labored under the naiur
a impression that an excursion for turf to ii
v nearest bog was all that was contemplate
7, whereas it was regular car, with cou pie
he travellers-a whole days work, without Il
j. slightest prospect of dinner. The more Il
IN horse seemed to reflect on this shameful usag
to the slower il trotted and the trot by and by d
e, cined into spasmodc kind of walk
10 Holloa, Paddy this wont do we shall new,
g, get to our journeys end at this rate.
e, Never fare, yer honor.
WhiSh, and down went a thwack on the ril
n of the indignant and unfortunate quadrupe
G. Paddy's whip was cudge and with this form
to dable instrument he proceeded to execute r
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