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Excerpt from Tubber Derg: Or, the Red Well The lesser tales of Carleton present, perhaps, as strong a claim to immortality as a delineator of national character can desire. Thomas Davis, speaking of the "Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, " well remarks, that we enter into all the sports and sorrows of the characters therein pourtrayed, and this charming quality of fascination will yet live and be attractive, when Carleton's stories will afford no matter for excitement, except that of curiosity towards a state of things extinct and passed away. When this era shall dawn it is impossible to determine, but certain it appears to be, that the last of our chroniclers belongs to the day we live in. And why? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.