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J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and story chapbooks] on sale from bookstalls at country fairs, concluding " ... the young Jaimie managed, by persistently parking himself at the left-hand corner of the stand where the books were displayed, to get through the entire stock a little at a time, when the owner was not looking or was feeling indulgent."
