Chapter 9: Jim Sulivan’s Adventures in the Great Snow

Jim Sulivan’s Adventures in the Great Snow Being a Ninth Extract from the Legacy of the Late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. Jim Sulivan was a dacent, honest boy as you’d find in the seven parishes, an’ he was a beautiful singer, an’ an illegant dancer intirely, an’ a mighty plisant boy in himself; but he had the divil’s bad luck, for he married for love, an ’av coorse he niver had an asy minute afther. Nell Gorman was the girl he fancied, an’ a beautiful slip of a girl she was, …