ionary,
under the article "Alias."

~93~~perhaps never see again; yet with all his vast erudition he had
his prejudices and superstitions; he believed in apparitions, and he
despised all countries save his own.--The Scotch and Irish he affected
particularly to dislike.--In his poem of "London," in imitation of
Juvenal, he says,--

For who unbrib'd would leave Hibernia's land,
Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand?--
There none are swept by sudden death away,
But all whom Hunger spares, with age decay!

But, with all his foibles, (and who is there without human infirmity?)
Doctor Samuel Johnson was the most highly talented writer of any age or
nation."

Facing the Obelisk, "let us stroll down the market," said Dashall,
"considered the cheapest in London.--Flesh, fish and fowl, fruits, roots
and vegetables, are here abundantly attainable, and at moderate prices."

Amongst the various venders, our two observers passed on, unmolestedly,
excepting the annoyance and importunity of "What d'ye buy? what d'ye
buy, buy, buy?" from" barking butchers, who instinctively reiterated
the phrase as the casual passenger approached, like so many parrots,
unconscious of its import being unproductive in effect; for who would
be induced to purchase by the clamorous invitation universally in use by
these vociferous butchers of the metropolis?--"My fine fellow," observed
Tallyho to one who annoyed him, "good wine, they say, needs no bush,
neither does good meat require a barker."

"Bad luck to my mother's own daughter, and that is myself, sure,"
exclaimed a retail venderess of vegetables, to her opponent in trade,
"if I wouldn't for the value of a tester, or for the value of nothing at
all at all, give you freely just what you ask for my jewel.--Arrah now,
is it law that you want of me! Faith and troth then you shall have it,
_club-law_, when and where you plase, my darling!"

"Dirty end," rejoined the other lady, "to the girl who fear* you!--Here
am I, Kate, of the Maclusky's of Ballymena, in the county of Antrim,
long life to it! and it would be a hard case, and a shameful one to
boot, if a well educated northern lass should suffer her own self to be
disgraced by a Munster-woman."

~94~~ "The devil fly away with Ballymena, and the Macluskys along with
it!" retorted the other; "and is it Munster and heddication that you are
bothering about? Whillaloe graraachree! my sweet one! an