Excerpt from Tubber Derg, or the Red Well: Party Fight and Funeral, Dandy Kehoe's Christening, and Other Irish Tales The following story owes nothing to any colourin or invention of mine; it is unha p' y a true onez an to me possesses a peculiar an melancholy interest, arising from my intimate knowledge of the man whose fate it holds up as a moral lesson to Irish landlords. I knew him well, and many a. Day and hour have I flayed about his knee, and ran, in my boyhood round. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.