'No, but too much of the fish,' says Put. 'Well Pat,' ssid the master, 'what the deuce kept you so long?' 'Long! ah, thin, maybe it's you'd have me come home with half my arrant?' says Pat. Paddy stayed so long away that Squire Trigger got quite impatient and unhappy lest his 'body man ' might have slipped into the Liffey however, to his infinite relief, Paddy at length mode his appearance, puffing and blowing like, a disabled bellows, but carrying his load seemingly in great triumph. On an inquiry being made of this inverted gentleman, why he stood in so singular an attitude, he replied, ' I am trying to read that sign.' PADDY AND THE OYSTERS One evening a red headed Connaught swell, of no small aristocratic pretensions in his own eyes, sent his servant, whom he had just imported, to purchase a hundred oysters at the city quay, Dublin. One day, while the rain was pouring down with great violence, a son of Hibernia, was discovered directly opposite, standing with some gravity upon his head, and fixing his eyes steadfastly on the sign. Here is a guinea go and bury one-and-twenty of them.' An American citizen, for the purpose of arresting attention, caused his sign to be set upside down. 'Only a shilling!' said Toler 'only a shilling to bury an attorney. Most of the attorneys and barristers having subscribed, one of them applied to Toler, afterwards Lord Chief Justice Norbury, expressing his hope that he would also subscribe his shilling. gentleman was an old man when his father was born?' An attorney in Dublin having died exceedingly poor, a shilling subscription was set on foot to pay the expenses of his funeral. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher.

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