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CHAPTER XIII 



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Scenery at Balbriggan— Meeting with Lady Demiquaver— 

 Belle Vue— The word of a demirep— A view from 

 Dirty Lane— The life of a lawyer— Dublin Four Courts 

 — Seats of Justice— Lord Quiverwit— Culpable homi- 

 cide by compulsion— A woman guilty of manslaughter 

 —A bogtrotting beauty at the Bar— Good reasons for 

 sheep-stealing — An absent council — Thady Muck- 

 mutton and Bob Johnston— Comfort to those going to 

 be hang'd, or let them do it— Monody in prose upon 

 Drunken Bob — Compunctions of conscience, or Lady 

 Muchaulty uppermost — Crim. Con. and Counsellor 

 Philips— Hot beef-steaks at the Struggler— Pat Due- 

 ginan and his new cooking apparatus — Virtues of 

 bog-turf— Struggles to live, and a slumber in the arms 

 of Murphy, .149 



CHAPTER XIV 



A man's life prolonged for public good— A walk up the 

 Canal— Out of town and still in it — Miseries of 

 London— A King kicking alive— Brian Boru moraliz- 

 ing—A planxty to the memory of Bob Johnston— A 

 damned soul— A pretty girl, and religion turned keel 

 upwards— Buck Whaley, and murder in Irish— Sally 

 Jenkinson's history— Trip to sea— A song, and an 

 upset in a squall— A water party, . . . ,159 



CHAPTER XV 



Why an Irishman cannot be drowned— Why a dead man 

 cannot speak — A particular mode of thanks for being 

 alive when you thought you were dead— The death of 

 Tom Evans— Rough and ready on board a man of war 

 —Turning the turtle — An attack upon a bomb battery 

 —A challenge— A Dutch sexton's hand-bills— Brian 



