The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Gulielma Zollinger (1856-1917) was the author of Dan Drummond of the Drummonds (1897), The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys (1898), Maggie McLanehan (1901), A Boy's Ride (1909) and Rout of the Foreigner (1910). ""Sure, an' sivin's the parfect number, " she said through her tears as she looked round on her flock; "and Tim was the bist man as iver lived, may the saints presarve him an' rist him from his dreadful pains! " Thus did she loyally ignore the poverty. It was the last of February. Soon they must leave the tiny house of three rooms and the farm, for another renter stood ready to take possession. There would be nothing to take with them but their clothing and their scant household furniture, for the farm rent and the sickness had swallowed up the crop, the farming implements, and all the stock. "