The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-26
A JAUNT IN IRELAND,
With Every Variety of Scenery in the
Course of the DaN's nriNr.

| With Every Variety of Scenery in the
Course of the Days Drive.
! If the day bc fine their can sc NO difficulty
in Ireland of shaking oil inportunate
thought, should you be- neither landlord, land
| agent nor land grabber. You ordered the
car over night at $50, so 10y 10 You ought to
| find it ready packed and waiting for YOU.
| Naturally, you first cast n glance at tho
| horse-;in understood animal, who looks rs II
| he could so, as indeed he can, although he has
no neck To speak of, and has probably been
| down more than once. You look at the lug
gage, which is all right; the por;mantcau
| strapped behind the shafts in front the
smaller articles slowed away in the we'll and
the wraps arranged To form "a rest for Your
back
Then You look curiouSly at the driver who
is TO be your guide and companion, and
though You may pride yourself ON Your
powers aS physiognomist, you can surmiSe
very little about him. Time and Your at
tempts at conversation viii tell Possibly he
Is stupid, silent or moroSc, but the odds are
that he brightcns when You speak, ami shows
himself brilliant couvcl,Sltio:i~t Unless
it De Involuntary and uncouscinu>ly, he Is
seldom droll, but he proftsSnS tp have any
amount of local information at your service.
Ii viii not do To trust him too far, for rather
than appear To be at fault when Ia Is CUES
toned he Will draw freely on a fertile mag
lbt8J ul~t'Itlitfit anu
should keep you tolerabv straight II YOU are
not getting up fact. with a purpose Then
"unhekn"wIlSt To himself his talk VIII be en-
hvened 10y bulls, and with quaint turns Of
expression that are richly racy Of the soil
And talking of the soil and the scenery.
though We have left the scenery chiefly to the
guide books, You may have any variety of
both in the course of one long days drive;
bleak bog and barren moorllnd: strips OF
deem flpnsrl I.ufI
stretching along some peat co!urcd stream; a
col, or gap, rs they locally call it. which
means tight tit for the road in some dcpres-
sion between the shoulders uf the LOFTY purple
hills, and then a rapid descent into some fer
tile strath, where the swift. clear salmon
river Is hurryin Scawapls, breaking over the
rocks and the hans, II gravel. under the foil
age of feathcrin. woods that surround Il
home-like mansion I'D its home fields An
other and sitter pull up To- another of those
gaps, and is on top the crest of the steep
ascent and look out across a broad table land
of swamp and pool and heather YOU feel the
fresh sea brcczes tanning your cheek and
KNOW that you can be Mt no great distance |
from the ocean. The road keeps well clear Of |
the coast, for the coast line breaks out and |
inwardS, i'll sheltered bays and storm dashed /
headlandS. But 1t Is worth while pulling up /
at the nearest accessible point and making n .
pilgrimage ON foot along the rough tracks Of /
the turf carts To have a peep over the brink /
of the land line. And there in North Done
gal, or any one of the wild western counties, |
you may look down over the dizzy etlae of
the beetling cliffs, where the great gulls are
dwarfed 10 swallow size, over the waves
breaking silently far beneath YOU: while to I
the right and left stretches cape beyond cape,
as they have been mined and followed from
time immemorial by the pillows Of the ATTAIN
tlc-AlcNander lnnis Shand in Blackwoods.