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                        THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL.

       NUMBER 27.       SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1841.       VOLUME I.

[Illustration: THE IRISH MIDWIFE.--PART II.

BY WILLIAM CARLETON.]

The village of Ballycomaisy was as pleasant a little place as one
might wish to see of a summer’s day. To be sure, like all other Irish
villages, it was remarkable for a superfluity of “pigs, praties, and
childre,” which being the stock in trade of an Irish cabin, it is to be
presumed that very few villages either in Ireland or elsewhere could go
on properly without them. It consisted principally of one long street,
which you entered from the north-west side by one of those old-fashioned
bridges, the arches of which were much more akin to the Gothic than the
Roman. Most of the houses were of