

Irish HOSPITALITY Hand Drinking.
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Du Sole, in one o. his letters to the
Spirit of the Times from Ireland, thus
writes Of Tipperary:--


'sThat is charming place." said we,
pointing to sturdy, cozy, comfortable
looking house, on gently rising ground,
that turned its face towards the sun and
smiled, as if in remembrance of many
merry day. "Yes," answered the guard,
''that house with its purity countenance has
sint many a man to Amerrikey." We
stared. "Och, it's the fine house, said
ne, "that's ruined all that's gone in till it.
livery soul that's lived there has gone clane
off wild the same complaint"


"And what complaint ls that?'


"Ah, complaint viry common in Ire
land jist now--tbe want o. money!,


We mentioned that we thought few of
them were indebted for their poverty to their
love of whiskey.


els 1t the dhrink ye name? Sorra a
man about these parts that can't dhrink wild
fish. Sse now! there's an ovid house
on the top O. the hill--there fornins, ye.n
We saw it. dts the boast O. the man
who lives in that ovid barn, that no gintle-
man iver left bis doore soberI'
This was reiterated as fact, and exhi-
bited great deal Of the old feeling, said
tobe prevalent in Ireland and England, and
which appropriated as an affront any mani.
festation of unwillingness to drink as long
as the dri1ker was able to keep himself
rolling under the table. We had hoped
that such absurd notions were inferred
with the follies Of the past, but many spots
were pointed out TO US as the residences
of gentlemen who still glory in maintaining
what the denominate the "good old fashion
ed hospitality" Of their ancestors.
| Curious to hear more of the custom, we
'nterrogated the young lawyer. "But will
they not permit you TO 60 when you have
drunk suficientlyw &C.," said he--"an
old rascal drank me blind, one day last
summer, when was down here, and then,
when | yentured to say 'go,' he placed his
fingers in his mouth, gave an ear-piercing
whistle, and presently there stationed them,
selves beside the door two Irish mastifs,
with mou .hslas wide again as the St. Law
renee, and teeth as long as bill in Chan.
cery. 'There,' sad he, 'are two insurper-
able objections, to ySur making yourself
ridiculous. So let's have the other bot
tie"


AT some distance farther on, dwelling
was indicated as the place where the Duke
of Richmond once held a great drinking
match with its resident pro- dPrietor. The
Duke was silly enough to fatter himself
that he could dispose of more whskey at a
sitting than any man in the kingdom, and
learning that this gentleman derived the
assumption, he visited him to settle the
dispute. They drank from five O'Clock in
the afternoon until seven O'Clock the SUBJ
sequent morning. The Duke finished his
3Sth glass of punch, and became oblivious.
His antagonist cleared the seth, and watt
ing until satisfied that his aristocratic friend
was helpless, had him put to bed. He
then took his gun, went out, killed brace
of birds, and had them dressed ready for
His Grace's breakfast, TO prove to the
latter, on his awakening, his utter discom-
future.


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