CONTENTS xiii 



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shoots his mark — Songs on the occasion, by Brian Boru 

 and Grammachrec — Sally Jenkinson's moral observa- 

 tions, ......... 170 



CHAPTER XVI 



On Carolin, the old Irish bard — Song, 'Evelina' — Shaking 

 a Paddy out of his breeches — Character of an Irishman 

 — Women — Sally's Song — How to disturb a woman's 

 heart — A walking-stick companion, and a weather 

 cock — Aldgate pump — Advancing into the centre of a 

 subject — A living clock case — Brian keeps a mistress, 

 turns horse-racer, etc. — His extravagance — Sells his 

 stud, and retrenches, ....... 183 



CHAPTER XVII 



Brian Boru arrested, and thrown into the Sheriff's Prison 

 — Tap-room of ditto — The prisoners' welcome to the 

 sheriff's tub — A visit — A touch at description — Dinner 

 at the mess — A wet evening amongst dry fellows, . 192 



CHAPTER XVIII 



A drunken piper prostrate — Meeting at a prison supper, 

 Swan the exciseman, in character — Swigging — An 

 Irish song to a Scotch air — Seeing the parson with 

 another man's wife — The Exciseman's story— A board- 

 ing-school edification — An informer — Duty of an ex- 

 ciseman — Song, ' The Devil came o'er the Curragh of 

 Kildare,' ......... 201 



CHAPTER XIX 



More fun — Captain Blake's town and country house — 

 Charles Fox, or the force of habit — A turn up and 



