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PART III . -LSB- Illustration : Frontispiece -RSB- -LSB- Illustration : Titlepage -RSB- CONTENTS The Hedge School . The Midnight Mass. . The Donagh ; Or , The Horse Stealers . There never was a more unfounded calumny , than that which would impute to the Irish peasantry an indifference to education . I may , on the contrary , fearlessly assert that the lower orders of no country ever manifested such a positive inclination for literary acquirements , and that , too , under circumstances strongly calculated to produce carelessness and apathy on this particular subject .