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population, and would have restricted the procreation of
children to those only who could maintain them; was applied
to for alms by a poor woman, with no less than five little
famishing urchins in her train. The haughty dame not only
refused to relieve the unfortunate mendicant, but poured
upon her a torrent of abuse, adding that she had no right to
put herself in the way of having children whom she could not
support.--The woman dropped on her knees, and prayed "that
the lady might have as many children at one birth as there
were days in the year!" and so, (as the legend runs,) it
actually happened!

~143~~ "Arrah, give me the favors of that sweet pretty crature, the
comical Muse at the Wax-works, who took me for a player,--Och! the
fascination of her smile and the witchery of her eye before all the
Muses that ever fuddled the brain of a garreteer!"

"Why baronet," said the Squire, "you are love-struck,--deeply
lurched,--taken in by the knowing one!"

"Taken in, that is as it may hereafter happen, but an Irishman, my
jewel, is never so desperately in love with one girl but he can spare a
bit of affection for another.

"Sure love is the soul of a nate Irishman,
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can
With his sprig of shilleleagh and shamrock so green."--

The three friends had now rounded the corner at the bottom of
Fleet-street, in the direction of Blackfriars, when Dashall claimed the
attention of his associates.--

"This is the domicil," said he, "of the patriotic Alderman, who, during
so many years has uniformly and ably opposed the civic hirelings of
Corruption, advocated the cause of Freedom, and acquired the well-earned
meed of high estimation by all the respectable and independent portion
of his fellow-citizens.

"Firm in principle, and resolute in difficulty, the conscientious
discharge of his duty has ever been his prominent object. But perhaps in
no instance has he so greatly endeared himself to humanity, than in that
of the long protracted inquest on the bodies of the two unfortunate
men, Honey and Francis, the victims of military outrage; his constant
attendance and indefatigable exertions on that occasion, were the means
of eliciting many particulars which otherways might not have been known,
and which ultimately led the Jury to record the atrociousness of the
crime by the several verdicts of murder