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Title: Life, stories, and poems of John Brougham ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Brougham, John, 1810-1880 Winter, William, 1836-1917, ed Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
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Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
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hey still there i and he shuddered as he inquired. Are who there, Mr. Stoddart 1 she asked, wath a sim-per that he quailed at. Who? he continued, why, the — the shapes, thespirits ! Why, deary me, what is the man talking about ?said the girl, with a merry laugh. Where did you meetwith such company, Mr. Stoddart 1 In that parlor, Mary, replied old Tom, gasping forbreath. Then they must be in there now, for there has nteven a ghost left since you had that swound; 1 11 see.So saying, she opened the door and peeped boldly in.Theres nothing there but an empty bottle, Mr. Stod-dart, and a tumbler. One bottle 1 inquired Tom, eagerly. Only one. Thank you, my dear, — heres a sixpence for you; and— I believe I 11 go home. What conclusion old Tom came to, upon giving theaffair his private consideration, I cannot say; but certainit is that from that day to this he never could be pre-vailed upon to touch a drop of brandy, or on any pretencewhatever to enter this little parlor. V. POEMS.►5*
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POEMS. ST. PATEICK. SOME centuries back — I m a little in doubtAA-^ith regard to the date, butt was somewhere aboutFour hundred and odd — you can easy find outThe year to a day in Giraldis Cambrensis, The sage Nubigensis,Or else in Henricus Antiodorensis, The Book of Ardagh, Or the Cath Fiothragh,The Psalter of Cashel or Comshiorgathagh,The Leabher Gabhala or Eeim Reiogra,Or the famous TJracept, by Cion Pola; In Solinus the specious Or Speed the facetious ;In Stanihurst, Spencer, or Hector Boetius ;In Campion, whose streamlet of truth rather shallow ran,Keating, or Leland, or Doctor OHalloran ;Camden or Strabo, the historiographer;Pomponius Mela, the great lexicographer :In any of these you have only to look,And thus, on your own individual hook,If you can but make out the archaic philology,Post yourself up in the proper chronology. And now to the legend: — In Ireland once. Or Scotland — and if I know which I m a dunce; 392 POEMS. But thats not so strange, for a learned inquis

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