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brandy or beer, is only attended, by a fearful aggravation 

 of them." 



" Let us alone about the musquitoes," said the Captain. 

 " I have been reading a book which, if I were an Irishman 

 would make a repealer of me ; but as I have not that 

 honour it will tend to increase my admiration and respect 

 for the Irish character. It is entitled ' The Eise and Fall of 

 the Irish Nation,' by Sir Jonah Barrington. Just listen to 

 his description of a pet of his, one Beauchamp Bagenal, 

 ( His person was fine, his manners open and generous, his* 

 spirit high, and his liberality profuse. During a tour on 

 the continent he performed a variety of feats which 

 endeared him to his countrymen. He fought a prince, 

 jilted a princess, made the Doge of Venice drunk, carried 

 off a duchess from Madrid, scaled the walls of a convent in 

 Italy, escaped from the Inquisition at Lisbon, and ran a 

 celebrated fencing master through the body at Paris.' " 



" He certainly was a most respectable man," added the 

 Baron ; " but I have never yet met an Irishman, who had 

 not something similar in his history, or who did not appear 

 to aspire to something of similarity with it in his character.'' 



" You are both exceedingly complimentary to my country 

 and countrymen," said the Priest, " but I would have you 

 to know that Sir Jonah Barrington is considered in Ireland 

 an authority just as reliable in matters of history, as Mr. 

 Charles Lanman is in Canada, on the subject of salmon 

 fishing." 



