# John Sherman; and, Dhoya

Author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49109

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=John+Sherman%3B+and%2C+Dhoya+Yeats&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The maker of these stories has been told that he must not bring them to you himself. He has asked me to pretend that I am the author. I am an old little Irish spirit, and I sit in the hedges and watch the world go by. I see the boys going to market driving donkeys with creels of turf, and the girls carrying baskets of apples. Sometimes I call to some pretty face, and we chat a little in the shadow, the apple basket before us, for, as my faithful historian O’Kearney has put it in his now yellow manuscript, I care for nothing in the world but love and idleness. Will not you, too, sit down under the shade of the bushes while I read you the stories? The first I do not care for because it deal...

## Chapters

- [PART V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/8/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/7/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART V. JOHN SHERMAN RETURNS TO BALLAH. 143](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART II. MARGARET LELAND. 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART IV. THE REV. WILLIAM HOWARD. 101](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-sherman-and-dhoya-49109/chapters/2/index.md)