90 LIFE IN IRELAND 



CHAPTER VIII 



A sight for star-gazers — Public entrance into Dublin— Jerusalem 

 cavalry — Triumphal Arch — Lord Mayor presenting the keys of 

 Newgate — Familiar noddings from Female friends — A royal 

 Vulture and a stammering 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 

 Phoenix 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 embarka- 

 tion and final adieu to Eiren go Bragh — A squeeze to Merion 

 Square— Remarks upon ram skin — Morning scene — Letter from 

 Priest Slinkem O'^^lack O'Whack of Grubble Town Ard, to 

 Patrick Mooney — Compunctious visitings of Brian Boru on 

 account of Judy Macanulty. 



IN the morning our friends met at Moran's in Sack- 

 ville Street in order to witness the ceremony of a 

 public entry, with which his Gracious Majesty had 

 agreed to gratify the DubUn star-gazers. Sir Shawn 

 and Brian Boru, after taking chocolate, set out for the 

 Lodge in Phoenix Park, leaving Captain Grammachree 

 to prepare himself with a bumper of egg-wine and the 

 devilled leg of a turkey. The Captain, like all other 



