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Title: Irish Wit and Humor
Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: September 8, 2006 [EBook #19220]

Language: English

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[Illustration: DEAN SWIFT.]

IRISH WIT AND HUMOR,

ANECDOTE BIOGRAPHY

OF

SWIFT, CURRAN, O'LEARY AND O'CONNELL.

NEW YORK:

J. A. McGEE, 9 BARCLAY STREET.

1872.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
James McGee in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington.

Stereotyped at the New York Catholic Protectory, West Chester, N. Y.

CONTENTS.

DEAN SWIFT.

His Birth--Singular Event 9

A Certificate of Marriage 10

Grace after Dinner 11

The Three Crosses 13

Chief Justice Whitshed 12

To Quilca 16

Mr. Pulteney 16

Resolutions when I come to be Old 17

Miss Bennet 19

The Feast of O'Rourke 20

Swift's Behavior at Table 24

Countess of Burlington 25

Swift's Political Principles 27

Swift's Charity 29

Public Absurdity in Ireland 30

Swift's Peculiarity of Humor 30

Dr. Bolton 32

The Scriblerus Club 33

The Upstart 36

Meditation upon a broomstick 37

Cossing a Dog 39

Trade of Ireland 40

A Beggar's Wedding 41

The Pies--Short Charity Sermon 43

A Courtier's Retort--Lying 44

Dr. Sacheverell 45

Taxing the Air--Wisdom 46

Epitaph on Judge Boat 47

On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favorite Poet 47

Dialogue between Swift and his Landlord 48

Roger Cox 50

Roger and the Poultry 52

Kelly the Blacksmith 52

Birth-day Presents 53

The Dean's Contributory Dinner 56

Swift and Bettesworth 58

Swift among the Lawyers 61

Preaching Patriotism 61

Swift and his Butler 63

His Saturnalia 65

The Dean and Faulkner 66

Swift, Arbuthnot, and Parnell 67

Dean Swift and