Vulgar words in The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland (Page 1)
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Asses are the prevailing beasts of burden, carrying about turf in creels or drawing hay--a big load to a small ass.
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The patient ass, with his straw harness and creels, is the prevailing beast of burden everywhere I have travelled since I entered Enniskillen with the exception of Sligo.
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Well, this man since the famine, has no stock but one ass and a few hens.
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He drew home seventy ass loads of turf at the rate of two loads per day--twenty-two Irish miles of a walk.
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A man with a team of horses on his farm is in a different position from a man with only an ass and creels.
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As there was an ass in one, and a goat browsing in the other, I do not know but what it was the best thing they could do to leave them untilled.
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I particularly noticed in every corner of Ireland where I have been that where I saw the tall chimneys of factories in operation I did not see barefoot women with barefoot asses selling ass loads of turf for threepence.