LIFE IN IRELAND 107 



CHAPTER IX 



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 Gram- 

 MACMREE's Commission— 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 Irishmen at the point of 

 death — Nelson's pillar — Description of the Rotunda Gardens — 

 Lord Wiggins on the descriptive — Lord M. dissected — Sir 

 Charles V. displayed— Sir Stewart O'Stupid illuminated — 

 Monopoly Peter puffed off — Lady Clary criticised — The 

 Dublin Dentist, or Buck-tooth — Miss M'Murdoch, who always 

 sits upon the family coat of arms ad libitum. 



BRIAN soon joined his friend, and before the clock 

 struck ten they were on the Naas Road ; their 

 progress ^vas a Httle impeded by a singular but not 

 uncommon exhibition, merely a delinquent shoving the 

 tumbler — in plain English, getting flogged at the cart's 

 tail for his malversations. 'The punishment,' said Sir 

 Shawn, who let slip of no opportunity to moralize,' is 

 of a most humiliating kind, and I think should only 

 be inflicted upon juvenile delinquents; upon the sinner 

 matured in vice it can have no possible effect, and I 

 conceive a sound whipping in public, to a mind not 



