ABSTRACT
Near the ruins of the castle of Rossmore, in Ireland, is a small cabin, in which there once lived a widow, and her four children. As long as she was able to work, she was very industrious, and was accounted the best spinner in the parish; but she over-worked herself at last, and fell ill, so that she could not sit to her wheel as she used to do, and was obliged to give it up to her eldest daughter Mary.
