34 LIFE IN IRELAND 



CHAPTER IV 



Trip to the Black Rock — Description— Comparison— Thunder 

 and lightning— Picturesque view— BOURKE FiTZSlMON's cottage 

 — Lord Donoughmore's poor relations — The Bay of Dublin — 

 Ireland's Eye— Lambay— Hill of Howth— Crowning the King of 

 Dalkey— Drowning certain characters — Battle of the cats- 

 Tabbies and Blues— A patent risk machine— A steam-boat — 

 Lady Demiquaver introduced — Her influence in the world of 

 Fashion — Bedershin — Wine and merriment — Song, ' Black Rock, 

 or Wigs on the Green '—Cellar-boy's retort— Sir Shawn 

 O'Dogherty and Grammachree mount a Jingle— Pick up 

 Poll Rattlewell— Confab— The Lord Lieutenant's dog- 

 stealer— Description of a Jingle— Bagot Street nuisances— A 

 sleepy driver — A blind horse and an upset on a bridge — Perilous 

 situation of Grammachree, Brian, and Poll— An exulting 

 cheer from SiR Shawn— A soft fall— A happy release from Low 

 I>ife in Dublin. 



THERE was something in this whiskey-drinking 

 ditty that so much resembled Grammachree's 

 own story, that he always resorted to it for consolation 

 when in distress, and when in a happy vein he always 

 trolled it with unspeakable vivacity. Brian and his 

 friend Shawn (for the sake of brevity we shall call him 

 so in future, having a precedent for doing so in Buck 

 Waley's footman, who said, ' My raal name is Teague, 

 your honour, but they call me Teague Rague for short- 

 ness,') determined, the day being far spent and a 



