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made a ' morgue' and the offices an hospital. ' Do 

 Mr. Dawkins, have done,' exclaimed my lady ' If, 

 you have no humanity, pray conceal it. Believe me, 

 your feelings will never do for Galway' 



11 But Drusilla had her reward. What though we 

 kept a lazaretto for lame horses, and a general wakehouse 

 for gentlemen of honour who left the world without 

 sufficient assets to procure a grave ; our lights were not 

 hidden, nor our charities unrecorded. There was not 

 a man shot, or an arm broken, but my lady wife was 

 dragged neck and crop into the columns of the Connaught 

 Journal as, for example : 



" ' THE LATE CAPTAIN MACNAB. Further particulars, 

 When the lamented gentleman fell, his second, Mr. 

 Peter Brannick, raised the body in his arms. Life, 

 however, was totally extinct, as the ball had fractured 

 the fifth rib, and passed directly through the pericardium. 

 In its transit, the fatal bullet shattered a portable 

 tobacco-pipe, which the deceased invariably carried 

 in his right waistcoat pocket. The body was 

 immediately removed upon a door to Castle Toole, 

 where every attention to the remains of a gallant soldier 

 was given by the accomplished mistress. Indeed, 

 it is but right to say, that this estimable lady superintended 

 in person the laying out of the corpse. At midnight 

 three friars from Ballyhownis, and a number of the 

 resident clergy attended, and a solemn high Mass 

 was celebrated in the great hall. The reverend gentlemen 

 employed upon this melancholy occasion, have expressed 

 their deep sense of the urbanity of the lady of the 

 mansion. 



" ' We understand that, at the especial request of 

 Mrs. Dawkins, the body will remain in state at Castle 



