226 Mendicants suffered in the Lobby of the Inn. 



considered by the community whence they are 

 torn, but as decorations of weeping willow. 



s'jt...s .iO f)o:;i..,Kni..:,, v : i .; .;.,., 

 The milk and butter sellers have here a sim- 

 ple contrivance for supplying their customers. 

 The kegs and a box for butter are fixed on two 

 poles attached to the back of a horse, sledge 

 fashion ; with which they either ascend or de- 

 scend the hill with little or no inconvenience. 



The assizes and races' draw a great con- 

 course of people to Derry, which has occasioned 

 the erection of a very spacious inn, where a 

 singular custom obtains. A number of poor 

 mendicants are by turns permitted to take their 

 stations in the vestibule or lobby of the house 

 for a certain time. Two or three changes of 

 these wretched objects took place while we 

 stopped. The endless recurrence of these de- 

 plorable subjects might reasonably be supposed 

 to have the effect of deadening, if not of de- 

 stroying, the best sympathies of our nature - 

 those of charity, arising purely from the sensi- 

 bility of the heart, unimpelled either by duty or 

 ostentation. 



One can scarcely believe that casual, indiscri- 

 minate charity under this roof, can be the effect 



