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[pantheman]

Maynard you are a genius, can't wait for the next bit.

Your writing style is brill, love it...... come on with the second episode.

Cheers

[Maynard23]

I can't wait .....

Please post more and I'll rush back from my chores as scullery maid to Lord Fauntleroy .....

My Goodness !!, am I to understand from your response to the history of my misfortunes that you find them amusing ?.
I did state that I considered my story capable of softening the heart of a virago, perhaps the next episode will convince you otherwise.

I will not reveal the circumstances of how I was obliged to suffer the ultimate indignity of being forced to camp outside the British Embassy in order to seek justice for a worthy cause, until it becomes unavoidable.

[Maynard23]

Maynard you are a genius, can't wait for the next bit.

Your writing style is brill, love it...... come on with the second episode.

Cheers

Thank you my friend, you are quite obviously a man capable of sharing the woes of one less fortunate than yourself.

May the light of the Lord shine upon you in the years to come....Ernie.

[Oracle]

I can't wait .....

Please post more and I'll rush back from my chores as scullery maid to Lord Fauntleroy .....

My Goodness !!, am I to understand from your response to the history of my misfortunes that you find them amusing ?.
I did state that I considered my story capable of softening the heart of a virago, perhaps the next episode will convince you otherwise.

I will not reveal the circumstances of how I was obliged to suffer the ultimate indignity of being forced to camp outside the British Embassy in order to seek justice for a worthy cause, until it becomes unavoidable.

Stop wasting time

Give me more now I beg you .....

[Maynard23]

I can't wait .....

Please post more and I'll rush back from my chores as scullery maid to Lord Fauntleroy .....

My Goodness !!, am I to understand from your response to the history of my misfortunes that you find them amusing ?.
I did state that I considered my story capable of softening the heart of a virago, perhaps the next episode will convince you otherwise.

I will not reveal the circumstances of how I was obliged to suffer the ultimate indignity of being forced to camp outside the British Embassy in order to seek justice for a worthy cause, until it becomes unavoidable.

Stop wasting time

Give me more now I beg you .....

Truly I tell you, I am in no state to continue at this time, my mind is full of such sad memories I can scarcely gather my thoughts, pray give me a little time and I will continue with my adventures in Eire.......Ernie


Incidentally, another reason for the choice of my name being that it contains both Erin and Eire within it and so is doubly blessed.

[Oracle]

I can't wait .....

Please post more and I'll rush back from my chores as scullery maid to Lord Fauntleroy .....

My Goodness !!, am I to understand from your response to the history of my misfortunes that you find them amusing ?.
I did state that I considered my story capable of softening the heart of a virago, perhaps the next episode will convince you otherwise.

I will not reveal the circumstances of how I was obliged to suffer the ultimate indignity of being forced to camp outside the British Embassy in order to seek justice for a worthy cause, until it becomes unavoidable.

Stop wasting time

Give me more now I beg you .....

Truly I tell you, I am in no state to continue at this time, my mind is full of such sad memories I can scarcely gather my thoughts, pray give me a little time and I will continue with my adventures in Eire.......Ernie


Incidentally, another reason for the choice of my name being that it contains both Erin and Eire within it and so is doubly blessed.

OK .... I shall amuse myself until you are ready to fire again!

[RichardB]

Oh young Maynard

what a truly heart tugging story.

My heart goes out to you

I have been reduced to tears by your strength and fortitude and you are a true inspiration to all of us

[SSBubbles]

I can't wait .....

Please post more and I'll rush back from my chores as scullery maid to Lord Fauntleroy .....

My Goodness !!, am I to understand from your response to the history of my misfortunes that you find them amusing ?.
I did state that I considered my story capable of softening the heart of a virago, perhaps the next episode will convince you otherwise.

I will not reveal the circumstances of how I was obliged to suffer the ultimate indignity of being forced to camp outside the British Embassy in order to seek justice for a worthy cause, until it becomes unavoidable.

Stop wasting time

Give me more now I beg you .....

Truly I tell you, I am in no state to continue at this time, my mind is full of such sad memories I can scarcely gather my thoughts, pray give me a little time and I will continue with my adventures in Eire.......Ernie


Incidentally, another reason for the choice of my name being that it contains both Erin and Eire within it and so is doubly blessed.

I like your style - definitely influenced by Dickens

I am a patient woman Maynard. Before you divulge your next chapter, please take all the time necessary to compose yourself - and finish off your pint!

[Magnus]

Well done Maynard, a medal well deserved. It's nice to see someone with a bit of literary creativity around here, you might even inspire me a bit. Can't wait to read the next part and especially looking forward to hearing how you met the highly-observant Jimmy Light who I imagine as being quite the Artful Dodger type.

Such larks and all that, IMHO I'll be dogged etc.

[Maynard23]

I'm a free born man of the travelling people
Got no fixed abode with no mass am I numbered
Country lanes and by-ways were always my ways
I never fancied being lumbered.

Well we knew the woods and the resting places
where the small birds sang when winter time was over,
then we'd pack our load and be on the road
they were good old times for the rover.

And at other times we would sit and linger
for a week or two for time was not our master,
then away we'd jog with our horse and dog
nice and easy no need to go faster.

I've made willow creels and the heather besoms
and I've even done some begging and some hawking,
and I've laid out spent wrapped up in my tent
and just listened to the old folks talking.

All you free born men of the travelling people
every Tinker Rolling Stone or Gypsy rover,
the winds of change are blowing your old ways are going
and your travelling days will soon be over.

With such songs as these and the cameraderie that accompanied them, it is small wonder that my entire perspective on life underwent dramatic changes, I learned fast that the value of a human being was not contained in the bank but in the heart, that what a man DOES is how you should judge him, as opposed to what he SAYS and by God did I learn fast.
Donal O'Hara was the finest fiddle player I have ever heard in my life, the music that was in that man was awesome to say the least, he could MAKE you dance whether you could dance or not and the camps were filled with the joy of being alive whenever a gathering took place.
On nights when the fires burned and the flames cast shadows around and between the wagons and tents, even the crackling and dancing of the flames filled me with such a feeling of belonging that I knew I had found home.
I became quite adept with the fiddle myself, I still have the one Donal played and diamonds would not entice me to sell it, I play it quite often and can feel the spirit of Donal O'Hara guiding my fingers as I lurch into jig time, I have never played his instrument without feeling that the man's very soul dwells within it.
I also play the mouth-organ and again, due to the tuition of Donal, I can find comfort in the fact that the wild and free music is all part of my existence and can never be taken from OR beaten out of me [I will refer to this at a later time].
But now I will speak of DOGS.
I think it is generally accepted that dogs act on impulse or some other instinct which scientists have not been able to determine precisely since they are unable to hold a conversation with an animal and can therefore only speculate.
I am by no means qualified but feel confident enough to venture the opinion that dogs are incapable of "thought" in the same way as humans are and mean no disrespect to the canine by suggesting such.
Therefore, when a dog makes an attack, bites, barks or fouls the footpath, he is entitled to be excused since either he has not been correctly trained and if he has been perhaps has suffered some lapse in connecting the signals required to control his behaviour.
All in all, if the dog misbehaves, he can be forgiven or re-trained, in very serious cases, he can be put down. generally speaking the dog itself is seldom blamed.

Now look at the actions of a man, we know we can think, we even THINK we know about how a dog thinks (if in fact it does).
Ah, but there is a difference you see, men make conscious decisions and if a man acts aggressively it is because he WANTS to, not because he is unable to recognize that he should not [as a dog would].

I saw two dogs attacking Donal O'Hara whilst he was surrounded by several armed soldiers, I saw four soldiers kicking Donal O'Hara with their army boots when they had called the dogs off.
I heard the soldiers calling Donal O'Hara a filthy Irish bastard and I saw him spit in their faces in reply, for which he was subjected to even more punishment, and what was his crime ?.
When stopped on the road by a group of soldiers, they enquired of him where he was heading and were not satisfied when he replied "Anywhere that suits me in my own country !"
How brave those soldiers were to assume AS ONE that such an answer warranted such a response, I was later told that Donal O'Hara was released on bail for attacking the soldiers and kicking one of the dogs.

more later, "Says I". Ernie.