THE LITTLE BROWN JUG AT KILDARE By MEREDITH NICHOLSON The Little Brown Jugat Kildare The Little Brown Jugat Kildare ByMEREDITH NICHOLSON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BYJAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG INDIANAPOLISTHE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANYPUBLISHERS Copyright 1908 The Bobbs-Merrill Company——— September Copyright 1908 The Bobbs-Merrill Company September THE LITTLE BROWN JUG AT KILDARE CONTENTS [Pg 1] [Pg 1] The Little Brown Jugat Kildare The Little Brown Jugat Kildare CHAPTER I TWO GENTLEMEN SAY GOOD-BY CHAPTER I TWO GENTLEMEN SAY GOOD-BY "If anything really interesting should happen to me I think I should drop dead," declared Ardmore as he stood talking to Griswold in the railway station at Atlanta. "I entered upon this life under false pretenses, thinking that money would make the game easy, but here I am, twenty-seven years old, stalled at the end of a blind alley, with no light ahead; and to be quite frank, old man, I don't believe