In his childhood he had himself often gone without shoes and stockings, yet the youth's lack of them prejudiced him against him.
"It must be the fellow's own fault!" he said to himself.

"He shan't catch me with his chaff!" Donal would rather have forded the river, and gone to inquire his way at the nearest farm-house, but he thought it polite to walk a little way with the clergyman.
"How far are you going ?" asked the minister at length.
"As far as I can," replied Donal.
"Where do you mean to pass the night ?" "In some barn perhaps, or on some hill-side." "I am sorry to hear you can do no better." "You don't think, sir, what a decent bed costs; and a barn is generally, a hill-side always clean.

In fact the hill-side 's the best.

Many's the time I have slept on one.

It's a strange notion some people have, that it's more respectable to sleep under man's roof than God's." "To have no settled abode," said the clergyman, and paused.
"Like Abraham ?" suggested Donal with a smile.