Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-11


LONDON, April 2T.--For the purpose
of illustration there is us little difference
between the Irish Fair and the Irish
market-day, as there could be found
between "a rale drop Of The right sort
and "a drop of the aierght sort, which
from time immemQrial has been INSOFAR
able from the proper conduct Of either
The actual difference is this. The Irish
fair, whether held at tie little village in
Donegal or Kerry, or attended BY th0Us-
suds, as at Ballinasloe, Athlune, Cork,
Belfast or Dublin, IS an affair for the
display and sale Of animals auy-nOrse.,
cattle, asses, pigs, sheep, goats and ocaA-
'sionally poultry. Perhaps so Irish
towns and cities hold from one to fJur
fairs each year. some are for the sane
of one class of animals only, of hogs as
at Limerick or Athlone, Of cattle, us al
Ballinasloe; of horses, rs al probably
the greatest annual hOrse-luir in the
world, that Of Dublin, or us at Cushen-
dun, for the exclusive sale Of the noted
Cushendal ponies bred on the heathery
mountains Of Antrim overlooking the
weird and stormy Irish Sea. But NJ
most of the Irish fairs all animals bred
in Ireland are exposed for sale, at many
Others farm products may be found,
while the great butter fairs III Cork
would almost give one the notion that
half the worlds butter is made III the
sunny wales Of lreland's South.
The market-day, on the other hand, is
q universal and interminahle affair.
Hardly a day passed III my nearly 4
years wandering in Ireland when lid
not come upon some town or village
where the fair or the market was III fan
progress. The area Of Ireland is %, 1875
square miles less than that of The state
OF Illinois; yet Ireland boasts ol 9GG
market towns where market.davs are
held from one to three times every week
IN the year. All this is picturesque ana
interesting to the traveller; but my obscr-
walton leads me to believe that there Is
vastly too much market, Of the sort, and
vastly too little to market, Of any surt,
III Ireland. The shupkeepers, petty
traders, and "shebccn" men like it wcii
enough; tor it brings tho people together
for trimming at both ends II the ward
l stick; but the tenant system behind it
: naturally renders this very custom a
necessity TO the peasaulry
Inc tenant farmer, particularly one
with tiny holding, must have, because
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