Identifier: irishliterature04read (find matches)
Title: The cabinet of Irish literature; selections from the works of the chief poet, orators, and prose writers of Ireland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1841-1878 Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power), 1848-1929
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Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A servant was called to
corroborate the Sheriff's statement.
Lord Chief-justice—"Mr. Sheriff, take an
order to suspend the execution."
At the prison Tone lay on his pallet
dying. On the evening of the 11th of No-
vember, while the soldiers were erecting the
gallows before his window, he cut his throat
with a penknife, inflicting a deep wound.
At four o'clock next morning a surgeon
came and closed the wound. As the carotid
artery was not cut, he said that Tone migh
trecover. I am sorry, said Tone, that I
have been so bad an anatomist. He lingered
till the morning of November 19. Stand-
ing by his bedside, the surgeon whispered to
an attendant that if he attempted to move
or speak he would die instantly. Tone over-
heard him, and, making a slight movement,
said: "I can yet find words to thank you,
sir. It is the most welcome news you can
give me. What should I wish to live for?"
Falling back with these expressions upon his
lips, he instantly expired.
So perished Wolfe Tone. So ended the
rebellion of 1798.
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A DOG AND HIS STORY

L. T. MEADE (MRS. TOULMIN SMITH). 193

L. T. MEADE (MRS. TOULMIN SMITH).
[Mrs. Meade was born at Bandon, county
Cork, the daughter of the Rev. R. T. Meade.
She married in 1879. She wrote her first book
at seventeen; and now she is perhaps the
most voluminous of all living writers. The list
of her works is a very long one. Scamp and
I, from which the extract is taken, does not
at all equal in literary achievement her later
work, but it is dear to the writer as being
the first of her books to bring her popularity.
Mrs. Meade's lot must be counted happy.
She is beloved of little girls, and some girls
well on in their teens. She has an immense
popularity; and she knows how to write of
little girls with great charm and truth. She
edited the girl's magazine, Atalanta, for six
years. In her hands it was an ideal magazine
for its purpose. Besides stories for girls,
Mrs. Meade is constantly engaged in writing
novels.]

A DOG AND HIS STORY.
(from "Scamp and I.)"¹ If ever a creature possessed the knowledge

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