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... poor piper , with my former rank as own man to my late masther , Mr. Millikin - one of the da- centest , darlintest , and thruest gintlemen that ever supped butthermilk , shot a tithe - prockther , or throd in shoe leather . Well may I ...
... poor piper , with my former rank as own man to my late masther , Mr. Millikin - one of the da- centest , darlintest , and thruest gintlemen that ever supped butthermilk , shot a tithe - prockther , or throd in shoe leather . Well may I ...
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... poor Misther Richard lived , and laft , and sang the air of " The Groves of Blarney , " and was boon companion with that glorious soale Docther Maginn , and Jak Boyle , and Frank Mahony the preesht , and the little man with the Goold ...
... poor Misther Richard lived , and laft , and sang the air of " The Groves of Blarney , " and was boon companion with that glorious soale Docther Maginn , and Jak Boyle , and Frank Mahony the preesht , and the little man with the Goold ...
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... poor boy from Mallow . Poor Misther Millikin ( may the angels make his bed in Heavn ! ) was a fine speciment of the Irish gentleman , before Cockneyism invaded the land of the Green . As gallant a fella as ever stept , he was 6 feet ...
... poor boy from Mallow . Poor Misther Millikin ( may the angels make his bed in Heavn ! ) was a fine speciment of the Irish gentleman , before Cockneyism invaded the land of the Green . As gallant a fella as ever stept , he was 6 feet ...
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... poor fellas ! tuk to whisky dhrinkin ' and died dhrunk , as Irishmen always should . Faix it would be hard to find a site more melankolly than to look upon a county sich as ours , with its broad noble acres as flat as a pan- cake ...
... poor fellas ! tuk to whisky dhrinkin ' and died dhrunk , as Irishmen always should . Faix it would be hard to find a site more melankolly than to look upon a county sich as ours , with its broad noble acres as flat as a pan- cake ...
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... poor fellas whin they comes to London ) ; and the haughty motto which Misther Boyle seleckted for this paper may be regarded and quoted as the best type . of the fearlisniss and bould energy of libill with which it was conducted- " Yes ...
... poor fellas whin they comes to London ) ; and the haughty motto which Misther Boyle seleckted for this paper may be regarded and quoted as the best type . of the fearlisniss and bould energy of libill with which it was conducted- " Yes ...
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