. The Brontës in Ireland; or, Facts stranger than fiction. ldadd, however, that the Todds were friends of theBrontes, and told the story with the warmth ofpartisans. Welsh Bronte had a sweetheart called PeggyCampbell, and she had a little, delicate, deformedbrother who used to go to Ballynafern school oncrutches. Some of the big healthy boys thought-lessly amused themselves by tormenting the littlecripple. He often arrived home with his clothestorn and daubed with mud, and sometimes showingin his person the signs of ill-treatment. After themanner of schoolboys he would never tell on his tormen
. The Brontës in Ireland; or, Facts stranger than fiction. ldadd, however, that the Todds were friends of theBrontes, and told the story with the warmth ofpartisans. Welsh Bronte had a sweetheart called PeggyCampbell, and she had a little, delicate, deformedbrother who used to go to Ballynafern school oncrutches. Some of the big healthy boys thought-lessly amused themselves by tormenting the littlecripple. He often arrived home with his clothestorn and daubed with mud, and sometimes showingin his person the signs of ill-treatment. After themanner of schoolboys he would never tell on his tormentors. Welshs sweetheart, however, haddiscovered the cowardly and cruel treatment towhich her little brother had been subjected, andappealed to Welsh to protect him. Welsh had, no doubt, often heard the story ofhis fathers wrongs when a child, and at a hintfrom Peggy constituted himself the champion ofthe injured boy. He went to Sam Clarke, whowas a near relative of the chief offenders, andbegged 1pm to interfere. Clarke, who was said to be something of a. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC UBRARY ASTOR, LEINOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R L U THE GREAT BRONTE BATTLE 197 bully, advised Bronte to mind his own business,and Bronte replied that that was the exact thinghe was doing; and then he added, as a threatthat unless Clarke restrained his brutal relatives hewould chastise them himself. Hot words ensued,and Bronte and Clarke parted with expressions ofmutual defiance. Welsh Brontes blood was up. His sense ofjustice was roused on behalf of an ill-used child,and his feelings of chivalry impelled him to becomethe champion of his sweethearts brother. Meanwhile the boys were meditating vengeanceon their victim, who, in addition to the crime ofmeek endurance, had, they believed, proved a sneakand a clashbcg by telling of their misdeeds. Welsh Bronte resolved to watch the children ontheir way home from school on the following took up his position in a clump of trees some-where near the Glen. He wa
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