. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . ow work as well as any man. Andthe work will be done just as well as you would do it, let yoube there or not. I know well Mr. — that you do be away manydays—I know you, though may be you dont know me andso on. Then a pause. Then a bystander suggests a com-promise, Say seven pounds ten now. Come now, Johnny, youwont break my word. And he slaps his hand in the hirershand and tries to get the hired to do the same, but nothingcomes of it. Then there is another notion—for all the on-lookers are feverishly anxious to see a bargain concluded—andthey take
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . ow work as well as any man. Andthe work will be done just as well as you would do it, let yoube there or not. I know well Mr. — that you do be away manydays—I know you, though may be you dont know me andso on. Then a pause. Then a bystander suggests a com-promise, Say seven pounds ten now. Come now, Johnny, youwont break my word. And he slaps his hand in the hirershand and tries to get the hired to do the same, but nothingcomes of it. Then there is another notion—for all the on-lookers are feverishly anxious to see a bargain concluded—andthey take the pair by the shoulders—M Come, now, go away thepair of you and talk it out by yourselves, we dont want to hear 44 INTERESTED ONLOOKERS CHAP. what youre saying; its none of our business. Then the twogo off a little way and there is immediate comment. Hesasking eight pound— He offered seven, and five shillings. Ay, but hes wanting eight. There was bigger boys in thefair took less nor eight. Och its not the size thats the thing ;. Cattle Drozer. its the spirit. Them McGrortys was all decent fellows: Ay,and hes a stout chap; no great size on him but hes strong so on, discussing the boys points as if he were a horse for aminute or two, but by the end of that time a crowd has againgathered round the pair and the talkers drift in to make part of it. Ill DONEGAL CASTLE 45 But unless you come on May 27 you wont see a hiring fairin Donegal, and what will strike you at once will be a glimpseof the castle with its mullioned windows beautiful even in river skirts its walls on the farther side though noship of any tonnage could ever have come up so far. But alittle way below the present quay are the ruins of the famousFranciscan abbey under whose auspices the Four Masters livedand wrote, and it has a regular landing-place. Close by it,embedded in the mud, may be seen the fluke of an immenseanchor which according to local tradition was left there by aFrench v
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