When we went out to drive we turned our backs upon it, my grandfather saying that he would not insult his horses by letting them look at it, and indeed I think that, old as they were, yet having blood in them they would curvet a bit if they saw anything so strange to them.
There is one thing the light railway has done, and that is to give the people a market for their goods.

We were all much poorer than we once were, except Mr.Dawson, who made his money by money-lending in Dublin and London; but even with Mr.Dawson's big house we did not make a market for the countryside.
Besides, there was a stir among the people there used not to be.

They were spinning and weaving in their cottages, and they were rearing fowl and growing fruit and flowers.
The things which before the peasant children did for sport they now did for profit as well.

It caused the greatest surprise in the minds of the people when they discovered that anybody could want their blackberries and their mushrooms; that money was to be made out of even the gathering of shamrocks.

They thought that people out in the world who were ready to pay money for such things must be very queer people indeed.