McClure's Magazine
Hugh Bronte's grandfather, the great-great-grandfather of the English novelist, formerly lived upon a farm on the banks of the Boyne, above Drogheda. He was a cattle-dealer, and often crossed to Liverpool to dispose of his stock. Once, when he was returning therefrom, a strang...
Hugh Bronte first makes his appearance as if he had just stepped out of a Bronte novel. His father, a man in prosperous circumstances, had a large family, and resided somewhere...
1. CHAPTER I.Hugh Bronte's grandfather, the great-great-grandfather of the English novelist, formerly lived upon a farm on the banks of the Boyne, above Drogheda. He was a cattle-dealer, and...
4. CHAPTER IV.Nothing in Ireland is supposed to test a man's honesty so severely as a bog lying contiguous to his own land. "If a man escape with honor as a trustee, try him with a bit of bog...
3. CHAPTER III.Upon arrival at their destination, Welsh seized his nephew and ward by the shoulders, and, looking fiercely in his face, informed him that his father was a mean and black-hearte...