Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

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aving no duties to perform, was sent to school. I had been to English schools, and to the celebrated one of Edinburgh; but my e

never catches; and wandering up the glen in the mountain, in search of the hips that grow there. Now, we have a school here, where he can learn the most elegant Latin, and get an insight into the Greek letters, which is desirable; and where, moreover, he will have an opportunity of making acquaintance with all the Protestant young gentlemen of the place, the handsome w

ntly produced by the application of burnt stick; and there I made acquaintance with the Protestant young gentlemen of the place, who, with whatever éclat they might appear at church on a Sunday, did assuredly not exhibit to much advantage in the schoolroom on the week days, either with respect to clothes or looks. And there I was in the habit of sitting on a large sto

were called, the farmers' sons from the country; and of these gossoons, of whom there were three, two might b

o the hand of nature. His face was long, and his complexion swarthy, relieved, however, by certain freckles, with which the skin was plentifully studded. He had strange wandering eyes, gray, and somewhat unequal in size; they seldom rested on the book, but were generally wander

ed in this manner, I went up to him, and said, 'Goo

Shorsha dear!-it is seld

you doing wi

tell you, I was e'en d

lay much

since my uncle Phelim, the thief, stole away the ould

ve other th

do that he cares about and that make

ow all about you; wh

the Wilderness that I live, and they call it so, because it is a fearful wild place,

her is a farm

ad not my uncle Phelim, the thief, tould my father to send me to school, to learn

ather be a farme

l day that I care for; and then I sits down and stares about me, and at the fire, till I become frighted; and then I shouts to my brother Denis, or to the gossoons, "Get up, I say, and let's be doing something; tell us the tale of Finn-ma-Coul, and how he lay down in the Shannon's bed, and let t

et up and tell

right moon; and, the more I stares, the more frighted I grows, till I screeches and holloas. And last night I went into the barn, and hid my face in the straw; and there, as I lay and shivered in the straw, I heard a voice above my head singing out "To wh

his to do with

!-If there were card-playing

you not pl

Denis and the gossoons would be ready enough to get up from their sleep before the fire, and play cards w

on't you b

re speaking? And where

's anothe

s well as night, and then what am I to do? Since I have been a saggarting, I have been good for

y, Mu

Shorsh

a pack o

a vourneen?-you don't say th

hey are quite new-ne

lending them to

I'll sell them to y

ot after telling you tha

oney, to me, at least; and

hat, Shor

ri

ri

talking it the other day to the c

uage-master you'd

d help you to pass your time at school. You

rds with his brother Denis, and I could spe