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The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain

CHAPTER III
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We had a party o' gintlemen out here last week, and the sorra drop of it they left behind them.

Devil a drop of venison there is in the house now.
You're an Englishman, at any rate, sir, I think by your discourse ?" "Was I not promised part of a fat buck from the demesne adjoining, and where is it?
I thought I was to have fish, flesh, and fowl." "Well, and haven't you fish." replied the fellow.

"What do you call them!" he added, pointing to the herrings; "an' as to a fat buck, faith, it isn't part of one, but a whole one you have.

What do you call that." He lifted an old battered tin cover, and discovered a rabbit, gathered up as if it were in the act of starting for its burrow.

"You see, Peggy, sir, always keeps her word; for it was a buck rabbit she meant.


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