LIFE IN IRELAND 



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presenting the keys of Newgate — Familiar noddings 

 from Female friends — A royal Vulture and a stammer- 

 ing Marshal — A lordly pun — The King to the ladies, 

 and God send them a safe deliverance — Lifting the 

 linen — Major Sirr and Major Swann, or how to kill a 

 noble rebel — Sir Billy Biscuit overgorged and laying in 

 state on Carlisle Bridge — His eloquence, good humour, 

 and wit— His epitaph, written by himself — Consistency 

 of an Irish corporation — A start for the Curragh of 

 Kildare — Loyalty mud-larking — A royal whip for a 

 horse jockey — A Duke, a Duchess, and a drive to 

 Phcenix Park — A visit to the theatre — Brian Boru, Sir 

 Shawn O'Dogherty, and Majesty delighted — Captain 

 Grammachree ill of a wooden-leg rheumatism — Gets 

 well and promoted to a Majority — Introduced to 

 the King — Royal wit — King's embarkation and final 

 adieu to Eiren go Bragh — A squeeze to Merion Square 

 — Remarks upon ram skin — Morning scene — Letter 

 from Priest Slinkem O'Slack O' Whack of' Grubble 

 Town Ard, to Patrick Mooney — Compunctious visit- 

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CHAPTER LX 



Scene on the Naas Road — Shoving the Tumbler — Remarks 

 on Irish Prison Discipline — Plan for selling British 

 malefactors to the Dey of Algiers — Arrival at the Pig 

 and Tinder Box — Beautiful Prospects — Good dinner — 

 Tom Reed — How to make a bowl of real whiskey 

 punch — ^Benediction upon wetting Grammachree's com- 

 mission— Toasts — The Major's thanks — A set in for a 

 wet night, and an escape — A lost letter found, from a 

 Political Quack Doctor to the R— d — r of L — d — n, 

 commonly called Black Jack — True anecdotes of Irish- 

 men at the point of death — Nelson's pillar — Descrip- 

 tion of the Rotunda Gardens — Lord Wiggins on the 

 descriptive — Lord M. dissected — Sir Charles V. dis- 



