Thurles fair Day. This is part of an article on the fair day in Maynooth and Thurles. The writer is comparing the fair day in Maynooth which is quiet, placid, peaceful and orderly. Start. How insignificant, and how dull the peaceable termination of a Maynooth fair , to the dash and the spree, the kick-up, the fighting, and the fury, of a real fair day in Thurles. It would be a gross injustice to the town, which is in the centre of Tipperary, not to mention that it is the only place that preserves , in all its pristine purity, "the old spirit of the Country". There are "the pudding lane boys", and the "high hill boys", "the Hickey boys", and "the Hogan boys", "the three year olds" and the "four year olds", the "White hen boys", anf the "magpie boys", with divisions, subdivisions, fractions and particles of the boys, that makes it a complete certainty that you will see a fight in Thurles , as that there is a fair holden in the town. Then there is, when all appears most quiet, a rush from one faction or another-a glorious tartering sweep of the stronger party through the entire street, driving tables, chairs, bed-steads, pannikins, rolls of cloth, bundles of linen, chaney, crockery, gingerbread, toys, boys, girls, old men, and young women into one inexericable mass of confusion. Then there is the rally of the weaker party- the outfighting, the shillellalas? going, the stones flying, the alpeens whirring, then the dash of the police, the flashing of bayonets, the smashing of iron?, the slating of the peelers, the taking of prisoners, and when the matter becomes serious, a peppering discharge of firearms, the cry of the wounded, the clearing of the town by the military , the distant shouting of "the boys", and thus closes another fair at Thurles. How different, how very different, is such a spirit stirring scene, to the dull, the quiet, and the business doing fair of Maynooth. Mary