He subsisted on a scholarship, two exhibitions and what he was able to earn by coaching. He was then twenty-five, old to enter a university, a tall, very strong young man, handsome and vain of his good looks. There are two accounts of what happened then: one states that Methodist ministers, impressed by his ability and expecting him to train himself for the ministry, subscribed a few pounds which, added to the little he had saved, enabled him to go to Cambridge another states that he left the parish school to become a tutor in a clergyman’s family, and it was with his help that he entered St. Two years later he got a similar job at the parish school at Drumbally-roney, and held it for eight years. But he was a clever lad, and ambitious and, somehow or other, by the time he was sixteen he had got enough education to become a teacher at a village school near his birth-place. It may be supposed that Patrick, his eldest son, did odd jobs about his father’s bit of land till he was old enough to earn a wage. The small-holding he farmed was insufficient to provide for his large family, and he worked in a lime-kiln and, when things were slack, as a labourer on the estate of one of the neighbouring gentry. In the baptismal register it is given as Brunty and Bruntee. It looks as though he could neither read nor write, for he seems to have been uncertain how his name was spelt. Patrick’s Day in the following year the eldest of his ten children was born and given the name of Ireland’s patron saint. Hugh Prunty, a young peasant-farmer in County Down, in 1776 married Elinor McClory and on St. M Why the British Are Hated in Asia (1954) M Stendhal and Le Rouge et le Noir (1954) M The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian (1898) M Of Human Bondage with a Digression on the Art of Fiction (1946)
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