Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry . THR BATTLE OF THE THE BATTLE OF THE FACTIONS, COMPOSED INTO NARRATIVE BY A HEDGE SCHOOLMASTER; My grandfather, Connor OCallaghan, thougha tall, erect man, with white flowing hair, likesnow, that falls profusely about his broad shoul-ders, is now in his eighty-third year: an amazingage, considhering his former habits. His coun-tenance is still marked with honesty and tracesof hard fighting, and his cheeks ruddy and cudgel-worn; his eyes, though not as black as they used tobe, have lost very little of that nate fire which cha- 270 THE BATTLE
Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry . THR BATTLE OF THE THE BATTLE OF THE FACTIONS, COMPOSED INTO NARRATIVE BY A HEDGE SCHOOLMASTER; My grandfather, Connor OCallaghan, thougha tall, erect man, with white flowing hair, likesnow, that falls profusely about his broad shoul-ders, is now in his eighty-third year: an amazingage, considhering his former habits. His coun-tenance is still marked with honesty and tracesof hard fighting, and his cheeks ruddy and cudgel-worn; his eyes, though not as black as they used tobe, have lost very little of that nate fire which cha- 270 THE BATTLE OF THE FACTIONS. racterizes the eyes of the OCallaghans, and forwhich I myself have been—but my modesty wontalh)W me to allude to that: let it be sufficient forthe present to say, that there never was remem-bered so handsome a man in his native parish,and that I am as like him as one Cork-red phatieis to another : indeed, it has been often said, thatit would be hard to meet an OCallaghan withouta black eye in his head. He has lost his fore-teeth, however, a point i
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