Irish Master Shoemaker

I was born in a small town in a remote part of Ireland, my father was a poor labourer, and I was myself a shoemaker, which trade I was bound to a shoemaker in my native town, and served seven years. I was then a journeyman, and I worked in several places, till I was a master, and I have been a master shoemaker, in a small way, for about twenty years. I was married, and have been a father, and I have been a good many years a steady, steady, steady,