Word: paladin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most important contribution to the current number of the Advocate is an Irish dialect story, "A Village Paladin," by J. A. Graydon '01. After briefly picturing the town of Rosslea, on Fair Day, the writer describes the shop of Mickey Doonan, the village blacksmith, and then skilfully introduces upon the scene some of Mickey's "boon companions." In the dialogue which follows there is both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very...
...rest of the number is taken up by two stories, an essay, and the editorial,- the usual verse being wanting. The first story, "Elsie's Paladin," is a fanciful tale of a boy and a girl, two playmates,-a half-fairy-story in which there is a touch of the weird and fantastic German folk-lore. The first page of the story reminds one of Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand." While the scene of the tale is faid in New England, the names of the characters, the incidents and peculiarities of treatment are entirely German, and bring to the mind...