Excerpt from The Fawn of Spring-Vale, Vol. 3 of 3: The Clarionet, and Other Tales; The Misfortunes of Barney Branagan, Resurrections of Barney Bradley Barney Branagan, one of the luckiest men that ever was persecuted by misfortune, was the son of a wealthy farmer, who, to his agricultural, or we should rather say, his pastoral pursuits, added the mellow business of a butter merchant. The latter had been baptized Barney also, for which reason, his son was generally addressed and spoken of as Barney Beg, or little Barney, a mode of distinction rendered necessary in Ireland, where so many persons of the same clan or family receive the same name. 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.