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purple to sell in Wexford at the fair of Carmen? Read
Tacitus and Ptolemy, even Giraldus Cambrensis. Wine,
peltries, Connemara marble, silver from Tipperary, second
to none, our farfamed horses even today, the Irish hobbies,

with king Philip of Spain offering to pay customs duties
for the right to fish in our waters. What do the
yellowjohns of Anglia owe us for our ruined trade and our
ruined hearths? And the beds of the Barrow and Shannon
they won’t deepen with millions of acres of marsh and bog
to make us all die of consumption?
—As treeless as Portugal we’ll be soon, says John Wyse,
or Heligoland with its one tree if something is not done to
reafforest the land. Larches, firs, all the trees of the conifer
family are going fast. I was reading a report of lord
Castletown’s ...
—Save them, says the citizen, the giant ash of Galway
and the chieftain elm of Kildare with a fortyfoot bole and
an acre of foliage. Save the trees of Ireland for the future
men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
—Europe has its eyes on you, says Lenehan.
The fashionable international world attended EN
MASSE this afternoon at the wedding of the chevalier
Jean Wyse de Neaulan, grand high chief ranger of the Irish
National Foresters, with Miss Fir Conifer of Pine Valley.

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