[Lord Kilgobbin by Charles Lever]@TWC D-Link bookLord Kilgobbin CHAPTER III 12/16
Two views of Killarney in the weather of the period--that means July, and raining in torrents--and consequently the scene, for aught discoverable, might be the Gaboon. Portrait of Joe Atlee, _aetatis_ four years, with a villainous squint, and something that looks like a plug in the left jaw.
A Skye terrier, painted, it is supposed, by himself; not to recite unframed prints of various celebrities of the ballet, in accustomed attitudes, with the Reverend Paul Bloxham blessing some children--though from the gesture and the expression of the juveniles it might seem cuffing them--on the inauguration of the Sunday school at Kilmurry Macmacmahon. 'Lot three, interesting to anatomical lecturers and others, especially those engaged in palaeontology.
The articulated skeleton of an Irish giant, representing a man who must have stood in his no-stockings eight feet four inches.
This, I may add, will be warranted as authentic, in so far that I made him myself out of at least eighteen or twenty big specimens, with a few slight "divergencies" I may call them, such as putting in eight more dorsal vertebrae than the regulation, and that the right femur is two inches longer than the left.
The inferior maxillary, too, was stolen from a "Pithacus Satyrus" in the Cork Museum by an old friend, since transported for Fenianism.
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