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a turn in — Gaol birds, a description — Mr. T. the 

 lawyer, and Sir John the swindler — Puns — The 

 German tailor teaching Irish — The King and a good 

 joke — An explanation in Germany, and a surprise — 

 Captain Fleereton — How to break a man's neck at 

 the Cape of Good Hope — Close shooting — Major 



B , a great brute — An atheistical old lady — An 



Irish scholar — Captain P , and his charity — -The 



Saint Domingo merchant — A tap-room ball — Honor- 

 able Mr. D , and crhn. con.- — Damages and im- 

 prisonment — The Bank robber, and his wardrobe — 

 Tim Byrne, and Mr. Mack the gambler — Killing a 

 man for a wager — The prison poet, Mr. O'Rafferty 

 — A loyal song — Whiskey punch and corderoy 

 breeches — A hat stealer and a battle — War hawk — 

 Brian Boru discharged from prison — A farewell dinner 

 — Anecdotes of Freddy Jones, the play manager — A 

 stop at Hawkins Street, ...... 216 



CHAPTER XX 



Dublin Theatricals — John Wilson Croker — Sir Plarcourt 

 Lees — A Green-Room Scene — Noji est invertis — Free- 

 dom in Love — A race for the breeches — Horace Twiss, 

 and a Pot de Chambre — Impromptu of Lady Clare — 

 Lady Demiquaver's lines on Lady Howe — A long 

 letter, never a better — A trip to Dandrum, etc. — 

 Scenes of love, and an Irish bull bait, . . . 235 



CHAPTER XXI 



A comfortable party — Downshire Bet and the Lady — 

 Gram come from Galway — A bastard and a bargain — 

 New love and comfortable sleeping — A parish priest's 

 letter — The rebel's fate — Poets, girls, and smuggled 

 gin, 255 



