The Poor Scholar

One day about the middle of November, in the year 18-, Dominick M'Evoy and his son Jemmy were digging potatoes on the side of a hard, barren hill, called Esker Dhu. The day was bitter and wintry, the men were thinly clad, and as the keen blast swept across the hill with considerable violence, the sleet-like rain which it bore along pelted into their garments with pitiless severity. The father had advanced into more than middle age; and having held, at a rack-rent the miserable waste of farm which he occupied, he was compelled to exert himself in its cultivation, despite either obduracy of soil, or inclemency of weather.

• | Author: William Carleton
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jun 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 152397303X
• | ISBN-13: 9781523973033