Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-25

knows, pathetic enough 10 appeal To the
whole world through artists pencil, or
the most talented word painters pen.
Away up in the Donegal Highlands,
in the country of colleen Bawn,n
where that pathetic and true tale threads
and thrills through Irish heads and
hearts to-day with tile same wondruus
power as when it was new, these hours
OF parting arc seasons of storms and
tears. have frequently been at cabins
where neighborS, in scores and hundreds
had kept up the parting doleful cheer
for an entire week, and where the in.
tensity of regret and grief took on such
wild emphasis at the end, that those
who were to have gone missed their
sailing day and steamer at Neville,
when all the sad business was neceS.
sarily repeated
These Donegal folk, however humble
and povcrty-cursed they may be, stand
straight and tall, both in their in
dlVlduality and upon their strong, long
legs. Indeed this often reaches grotesque.
ness in both respects. While the Irish
peasantry, particularly of the south, are
frequently dlminutive in form and
sometimes terrety in character these
iolk seem to possess an inner conscious.
ness OF self -importance cut in glowing
characters and large lines; while III no
rev instances they are so straight that
me arcs sweep from their heels to the
BACK OF their necks, often giving them
the appearance Of carrying, and with
some dlsdain, invisible but mighty
commissions on the tops of their heads.
IL is weird sight to see scores Of such
as these appearing around the curve of
some mighty mountain road. accom-
| panyinE tue emigrant to Stranorlar, wall
ing and almost keening as for the dead;
| hating and embracing, often struggling
Tor priority IN walking beside the hero
| q the hour; and often SO overcome with
| the violence Of their grief as to make
despairln5 rushes with the loved one
back towards the old mountain home.
have many times fallen in with
these cayalcades winding down from
the Derryycagh and Glendowan noun.
tains, or from the Boultipatrick Gatigan
or Aghla hills, and have walked and
| halted, and parleyed and soothed in
| common with tile honest souls for miles
on their way towards the railway, at
atranorlar IN one occasion the "con-
voyln5" party was from the far west
Nlaghery BAY whore lifs Il yorv AMI
and drrar. Al ma If was ,ran.I
whose fucrs and str,r,ra. ,ttira k,,.,,,,i..,
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| II and n viii nnrhons IA 49,
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R1stGIGe posht my paStcllee basht N
' MINI w cross encompass me Ny poor
oN 1,,l. my poor children }
XIV Mheh wandering y county Cal
Wy Wy, "oWI ~ on CiosAmore saw q
,l,iI'isel coHVoyihE party than could
~, nu t9"'Iu ~ WY othef portion Of Ire
Itm,, : nau pten s''l9iterlng among the
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