'The great advantage of having an ancestry like that of a mongrel dog is I have so many ancestral homes to go home to.' UNDER THE SPELL A travel tale by Danny O'brien We caught the ferry from Le Havre, France to Ireland, land of my ancestors. Every since I was a wee lad, my mind has been used as a canvas by every Irishman who has been displaced from the Emerald Isle. A …showed first 75 words of 5004 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5004 total…many a year and no one would cast him out over something so small as a sour note. The Grim Reaper would say when this man played his last sour note and spare we mortals the task. Though, when he played a few particularly sour notes, I did see a few looks that lead me to suspect that he had a few friends who marveled at the patience of the Grim Reaper. To be continued..