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Show BLACK BOG OF KILBARR0N Corner In the County of Kildare, Ireland, Ire-land, Dear to Those Who Know It. The black bog of Kilbarron, in the County Kildare, Ireland, lies five long miles from either railway or postof-flee postof-flee and Is considered to be at the "back of beyant entirely." There are three styles of dwellings in the black bog, says the Rosary Magazine, houses, cottages and cabins. cab-ins. The houses are quaint, rambling edifices owned by the farmers, who still hold to olden styles and ancient ways unmindful of the great modern note which Is sweeping through Ireland Ire-land today. The cottages beloag to the government govern-ment and are rented to laborers at a very low rate, while the cabins are simply relics of the old regime, just clay huts roofed with straw. There are very few of the latter standing in Ireland now. The black bog Is a dangerous place for nightly rambles, as It abounds In deep holes full of Inky water. But some warm summer evening after sunset, sun-set, when the white fogs are rising all around, go down there all you who are city tired, and find out how good that springy sod will feel to your cramped feet. Try a short Marathon along those winding pathways, you who are weary of life's treadmill, and see If you do not get to feeling like a young colt just let loose in a clover pasture. On some misty day in October go down there among the brown heather and let the long, clean, wet winds blow the furrows from your forehead while the raindrops are pattering on the bracken like the wee feet of the fairies themselves Always enchanting, always beautiful, beauti-ful, even if It is at the "back of beyant," the charm of this old bog will twine Itself round your heart with a lure strong enough to draw you back to the wilds of Kilbarron for evermore. |