THERE lived not long since, on the borders
of the county Tipperary, a decent honest couple, whose names were Mick
Flanigan andJudy Muldoon. These poor people were blessed, as the saying is,
with four children, all boys: three of them were as fine, stout, healthy,
good-looking children as ever the sun shone upon; and it was enough to make
any Irishman proud of the breed of his countrymen to see them about one
o'clock on a fine summer's day standing at their father's cabin door, with
their…