About a hundred years ago it was a common thing to find men working in the fields and in the bogs with a good knowledge not only of Irish but also of the classic. There was a man in Lixnaw whose name was Shawn Bawn McEllyott. Shawn was expelled out of Trinity College. When he was working in the bog he used talk in Latin to his companion who was also at one time in Trinity. Shawn's people were farmers in Ballyinagare in Lixnaw. Shawn went to Trinity first as a result of an examenation. There was a gentleman farmer living near Lixnaw whose son was also going. He said. "What does a rough ignorantElla Dmitrieva