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    Shaun O'Day of Ireland
    Shaun O'Day of Ireland
    Shaun O'Day of Ireland
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    Shaun O'Day of Ireland

    By Madeline Brandeis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Shaun O'Day of Ireland - Madeline Brandeis

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      Title: Shaun O'Day of Ireland

      Author: Madeline Brandeis

      Release Date: October 10, 2012 [EBook #41015]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHAUN O'DAY OF IRELAND ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Joke Van Dorst and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Shaun O'Day of Ireland

      SHAUN O'DAY OF IRELAND

      SHAUN O'DAY

      of IRELAND

      BY

      MADELINE BRANDEIS

      Producer of the Motion Pictures

      The Little Indian Weaver

      The Wee Scotch Piper

      The Little Dutch Tulip Girl

      The Little Swiss Wood Carver

      Distributed by Pathé Exchange, Inc., New York City

      Photographic Illustrations made in Ireland by the Author

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

      by arrangement with the A. Flanagan Company

      COPYRIGHT, 1929. BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      PREFACE

      When I began to write these stories about children of all lands I had just returned from Europe whither I journeyed with Marie and Ref. Maybe you don't know Marie and Ref. I'll introduce them: Please meet Marie, my very little daughter, and Ref, my very big reflex camera.

      These two are my helpers. Marie helps by being a little girl who knows what other little girls like and by telling me; and Ref helps by snapping pictures of everything interesting that Marie and I see on our travels. I couldn't get along without them.

      Several years have gone by since we started our work together and Marie is a bigger girl—but Ref hasn't changed one bit. Ref hasn't changed any more than my interest in writing these books for you. And I hope that you hope that I'll never change, because I want to keep on writing until we'll have no more countries to write about—unless, of course, some one discovers a new country.

      Even if a new country isn't discovered, we'll find foreign children to talk about—maybe the children in Mars! Who knows? Nobody. Not even Marie—and Marie usually knows about most things. That's the reason why, you see, though I sign myself

      I am really only                            

      Marie's Mother.

      DEDICATION

      To every child of every land,

      Little sister, little brother,

      As in this book your lives unfold,

      May you learn to love each other.

      CONTENTS

      WILL YOU WALK INTO MY STORY—?

      Just because I think it may interest you to know it:—In these photographs Kit Wain posed for Shaun O'Day. Kit is a real Irish boy, but he did not have the adventures that Shaun had in the story. He has had many other adventures, however, because Kit is a young actor. Dawn O'Day was played by Mary Jo Desmond. Mary Jo is just a little schoolgirl like you. She looked so much like Dawn O'Day in the story that I asked her to be Dawn for me. And because she is Irish and loves make-believe, she did it.

      When Shaun grew older it was Maurice Murphy who posed. Maurice has had a wonderful life for a young boy. He has played on the stage and in motion pictures and also on the piano! For he is a very talented young musician. Maybe you remember seeing him act in the film called Beau Geste.

      Little saucy Marjorie was posed by a little saucy miss who is known as Carmencita Johnson. I should say well known because Carmencita, though only five, is already a picture star. She is a very interesting young person, and if I began to tell you all about her and her family of sisters and brothers it would take up all the book and leave no room for the story.

      John O'Day, Shaun's son, is portrayed by another little film artist. His name is Gordon Thorpe. Gordon is only six. But he has appeared in more than sixty motion pictures. Do you remember the little Prince in Douglas Fairbanks' The Iron Mask? That was Gordon. And in The Bridge of San Luis Rey? You surely recognized him.

      Dick Good was the fighting boy who didn't believe that Marjorie was a fairy. And of course I need not tell you that the scenes of cities and buildings and places in Ireland were all played by those cities and buildings and places themselves.

      That is, when I was in Ireland I asked them to pose for me. And they did it willingly the way the children did. They posed very well, in fact. Very quietly.

      Only the rain in Ireland is not willing. The rain does not want photographers to catch the beauty of the country. The rain tries to spoil everything for the poor photographers. But we forgive him because he makes Ireland so green.

      Here are the names of the little children who helped me so nicely by coming to Marjorie's birthday party and posing as her guests: Alice and Howard Bucquet, Caroline Kuhns, Barbara and Patrick Ford, Betty and Stephen Kline, Marie Madeleine Brandeis and Dietrich Haupt.

      The only grown-up in the story, John's girl-fairy, is Miss Alice White. Miss White is such a busy star that I think I should thank her for stopping long enough from her work to be John's girl-fairy in the pages of this book. And I think I should thank all the rest of these good people, even if they are only little people, for they too, are busy. And it is sometimes hard to

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