BlairAndCernyFamilie..

There are nany frelands, the ones you have
heard about and read about and dreaned of--and
they are all there waiting for you to see and
visit. Miles of chest-high stone fences that
enelose tinyrtreeless, 1or,'1and oastures: farmers
with hazel- sticks oatiently herdins cattle down
roads fl-anked by thatched-r:oof eottases; the
moss-grolrn ruins of Blarney Castle and of course
its legendary stone: a broad, rolline eentral
nlatn of rj-ch grasslands producins the worldrs
tenderest lreef and fastest horses and also the
friendly necple.
Prevailing westerly and south-'rresterly
winds blcwins aeross the warm waters of the North
Atlantie Drift, an arm of the Gulf Stream, generate
Irelandrs humid climate--sunshine warm enough to
make lalm trees feel at home, creany white clouds
that so tumbling up into the sky like the
beckoning uplands of another country, winter days
raw and damp enough, as County Sligo farners say
rrto give a wild duck rheumatism.tr freland is
far up the side of the globe--in the latitudes
of Labrador and this is why the smoke-blue Irish
gloaminq lingers forever on sunmer evenings.
Relaxed, is the one-word surnmary of the
average frishnanrs approach to 1ife. Most are
not college educated and lf they are, they only
work for the enjoyment of their own oleasures.
The Irish are not of the naturally neirhborly
type. Thelr would rather drink, fish or just
rest and expect to be waited qpo!1. Irishmen
display little interest in their dress and
elcthes. They are nct tidy or neat and therefor
are slovenly and Cisordered. They have a
tendeney to be eolor-blind which is a very
defeetive eolor perceotron, independent of the
eanaeity for dlstinguishing lieht and shades
of eolor and form. They are not the most trustlverthy
peoole and sometirnes act in a frrrtive or
underhand way in their aetionsr and many having
a disoosttion to avoid exertion of work, slownovinq
and slrrsgish, and are addieted to
arsuments and disputations. They are very good
nrogenltorrs
good sense.
when they show sound .'iudgernent and