to Harriette
Wilson and her sisters, whose true history will prove very entertaining,
particularly as the fair writer has altogether omitted the genuine
anecdotes of herself and family in her recently published memoirs."
At dinner we were joined by Horace Eglantine and Bob Transit, from the
first of whom we learned, that a grand fancy ball was to take place at
the Argyll Rooms in the course of the ensuing week, under the immediate
direction of four fashionable impures, and at the expense of General
Trinket, a broad-shouldered Milesian, who having made a considerable sum
by the commissariat service, had returned home to spend his
Peninsular pennies among the Paphian dames of the metropolis. For this
entertainment we resolved to obtain tickets, and as the ci-devant lady
H***e was to be patroness, Crony assured us there would be no difficulty
in that respect, added to which, he there promised to finish his
sketches of the Citherian beauties of the metropolis, and afford my
friend Transit an opportunity of sketching certain portraits both of
Paphians and their paramours.

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THE WAKE;

OR,

TEDDY O'RAFFERTY'S LAST APPEARANCE.

A SCENE IN THE HOLY LAND.

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'Twas at Teddy O'Rafferty's wake,
Just to comfort ould Judy, his wife,
The lads of the hod had a frake.
And kept the thing up to the life.
There was Father O'Donahoo, Mr. Delany,
Pat Murphy the doctor, that rebel O'Shaney,
Young Terence, a nate little knight o' the hod,
And that great dust O'Sullivan just out o' quod;
Then Florence the piper, no music is riper,
To all the sweet cratures with emerald fatures
Who came to drink health to the dead.
Not Bryan Baroo had a louder shaloo
When he gave up his breath, to that tythe hunter death,
Than the howl over Teddy's cowld head:
'Twas enough to have rais'd up a saint.
All the darlings with whiskey so faint,
And the lads full of fight, had a glorious night,
When ould Teddy was wak'd in his shed.
--Original.

He who has not travelled in Ireland should never presume to offer an
opinion upon its natives. It is not from the wealthy absentees, who
since the union have abandoned their countrymen to wretchedness, for the
advancement of their own ambitious views, that we can form a judgment
of the exal