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Folk Tales of Breffny

B. Hunt

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. . .They will ask if you are wishful to fight with gloves on your hands, but it is [16]your bare fists are the best. Let you say you’ll toss for which it is to be, but toss with the half-crown I give you, and you are certain to win. Myself is coming to that place for to second you, and it’s bound to be the grandest bully was seen in the City of Dublin.”

With that the little fellow went away out of the house. And at the morning of the day my brave old Paddy started for Dublin. He wasn’t too long on the road, for he got a lift from a man was driving there to see the bully. Well, there was odious laughing and cheering when the crowd saw the champion was come to accept the challenge. The big man was after battering the youth of the world, allowed he had no notion of striving against the likes of Paddy. But when no person else came forward they were bound for to accept him, and they asked would he wear gloves on his fists.

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Community Reviews

Where's Breffny, you may ask? It's an old region of Ireland, a thin strip of land now divided between Ulster and Connacht.

From the -- rather lovely -- introduction: 'Many of the stories in this volume were told by an old man who said he had more and better learning nor the scholars. “The like of th