602 South American Sketches. [Dzc. 
he had most reason to dread, at a time when, to hold up his finger 
would have sealed his fate, without any odium attaching to Quiroga 
himself. As soon as La Madrid could be removed, Quiroga caused him 
to be carried to his own house, and carefully attended for several months ; 
when, being in a state of convalescence, he gave him his passport and 
an escort, with which he reached in safety the province of Salta. Since 
that period, Quiroga has remained in a state of quietude ; and it is pro- 
bable that his authority will endure to the end of his life, as he will 
most likely conciliate the congress, rather than set them openly at defi- 
ance; and surrounded as he is by men of great physical powers, and 
equally great mental ignorance, who possess rude feelings of attach- 
ment to him from having been long accustomed to regard him as their 
protector, it would be no easy matter to extinguish his authority with 
the strong arm of power alone. A. G. 
STANZAS, 
Containing an exact and Jiteral Account of the Behaviour and Pate of ABRAHAM 
Isaacs, of Ivy Lane, who died of excessive Brandy. 
“ True 'tis a PT—PT ‘tis, tis true.’—SuAKsPeare, 
In IV-lane, of CT fame, 
There lived aman, DC; 
And AB 16 was his name— 
Now mark his history. 
Long time his conduct, free from blame, 
Did merit LOG; 
Until an “ evil spirit” came 
In the shape of O D V. 
«“O! that a man into his mouth 
Should put an NME, 
To steal away his brains:’—no drouth 
Such course from sin may free. 
Well, AB drank, the oT loon! 
And learned to swear, sans ruth ; 
And then he gamed, and UZ soon 
To DV8 from truth. 
And when his better 3 would cry, 
©! leave the O D V:” 
He’d only growl, “ ’Tis all my I,” 
Or hiccup, “ U B D——!” 
An hourly glass with him was play; 
He'd swallow that with phlegm: 
Judge what he’d MT in a day— 
« X PD Herculem.” 
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