CHAPTER IV.

Journey from Cork to Limerick—Interesting adventure of a
boy at Bruff—Arrival at Vermont.-^Happiness.

Vermont, near Limerick, Arrived here yester¬
day. There is nothing very remarkable or in¬
teresting for the first sixteen miles of the jour¬
ney between Cork and this place, except the ex¬
treme luxuriance of the furze hedge-rows, whose
bright yellow blossoms, sparkling with rain-drops
in the gleams of sunshine, looked like walls of
gold between the fields.

About two miles before we reached Mallow,
we came to one of those romantic glens, so pe¬
culiar to Ireland, where the clear stream winds
round the base of a promontory, whose rocky
steep is crowned by the ruins of an old castle;
one   of   those beautiful   sunny  nooks,   where