Corkonian

Vivacious and versatile, beyond the average even of Irishmen, the Corkonians mingle raillery with their hospitality, and cut up cattle and human nature with a trenchant ease and constant energy, as if they had taken a government contract…

But there is nothing malevolent in the Corkonian mode of levying toll upon old residents and new comers; priests with frowning faces, and queer-looking little boys with funny ones, and a miscellaneous lot of noisy patriots always going t…