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these flies, and my wrathful, ill-conditioned 

 opposite neighbour, were identical. 



" That an ignorant, self-sufficient sort of fellow, 

 like this Englishman, should have the face to 

 reject such flies as mine, in favour of his own 

 wretched abortions ;" no wonder some such 

 thoughts as these, if they passed through his 

 mind, combined with his own want of success, 

 should "rile" him a bit, and make him demean 

 himself more like an untaught brute, than the 

 well-educated, civil (though not over-cordial) 

 Scotchmen I usually fell in with ! 



There is so marked a difference in the man- 

 ners and demeanour of the Irish and Scotch 

 lower classes, that it cannot fail of striking the 

 stranger. " Is it sport your honour wants ?" 

 says Pat ; and straight ahead does he launch 

 into the most ludicrously extravagant pictures 

 of what is in store for you, if you only 

 "persevare" in such a "strame," and take "a 

 broth of a boy " like himself to " pint out the 

 beauties ; Heaven bless them ! " 



