Chapter 20

'Soon as you lift the latch, little ones are meeting you,

Soon as you're 'neath the thatch, kindly looks are

greeting you;

Scarcely have you time to be holding out the fist to them-

Down by the fireside you're sitting in the midst of them.'

Francis Fahy.

Roothythanthrum Cottage,

Knockcool, County Tyrone.

Of course, we have a