. Connaught. CONNAUGHT 9 as beneficent as India had known since the is a poor province, but it breeds notable men. I satat dinner not long ago with three who had been atschool together in the west, poor lads all of had become bishop of his diocese; one was thebest-known journalist in England and no mean forcein politics; the third, perhaps, the greatest orator inAmerica, something of a party to himself—but beyondall doubt a power. It is perhaps well to remember such facts in visit-ing a country where poverty stares you in the face,where, at least in certain parts, it has
. Connaught. CONNAUGHT 9 as beneficent as India had known since the is a poor province, but it breeds notable men. I satat dinner not long ago with three who had been atschool together in the west, poor lads all of had become bishop of his diocese; one was thebest-known journalist in England and no mean forcein politics; the third, perhaps, the greatest orator inAmerica, something of a party to himself—but beyondall doubt a power. It is perhaps well to remember such facts in visit-ing a country where poverty stares you in the face,where, at least in certain parts, it has become adisease. Courtesy in the poor is apt to seem ob-sequious; yet courtesy is of all things most nativeto Connaught, and it is finest shown where the folkhave acquired some stable security. I fished oneafternoon with an old man in a lake in the moun-tains behind Leenane, a poor man but evidently notneedy; he and his wife pressed on us the best theyhad to give, and because our fishing had been un-success
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