THE STUARTS

"As to the Stuarts, there are no songs about them and no praises in the

West, whatever there may be in the South. Why would there, and they

running away and leaving the country the way they did? And what good did

they ever do it? James the Second was a coward. Why didn't he go into

the thick of the battle like the Prince of Orange? He stopped on a hill

three miles away, and rode off to Dublin, bringing the best of his

troops with him. There was a lady walking in the street at Dublin when

he got there, and he told her the battle was lost, and she said 'Faith

you made good haste; you made no delay on the road.' So he said no more

after that. The people liked James well enough before he ran; they

didn't like him after that."

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