The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . ion of a pauper. Now andthen, to please his benefactors, he will sport a bull or two, andwhen the laugh is increasing a little too much against him,will, in a low tone, remind them that buUs are not confined tothe lower orders of Irish. The truth of this assertion maybe seen in Miss Edg^vortlls Essay on Irish bulls, pubUshed1803, from which the following is an extract: When Sir Richard Steele was asked how it happened that 68 his countrymen made so many bulls, he replied, It is the ef-fect of climat
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . ion of a pauper. Now andthen, to please his benefactors, he will sport a bull or two, andwhen the laugh is increasing a little too much against him,will, in a low tone, remind them that buUs are not confined tothe lower orders of Irish. The truth of this assertion maybe seen in Miss Edg^vortlls Essay on Irish bulls, pubUshed1803, from which the following is an extract: When Sir Richard Steele was asked how it happened that 68 his countrymen made so many bulls, he replied, It is the ef-fect of climate, sir ; if an Englishman were born in Ireland, hewould make as many. However, great mistakes are sometimesmade by the wisest of the English; for it is reported of SirIsaac Newton, that after he had caused a great hole to bemade in his study door for his cat to creep through, he had asmall one for the kitten. When the present writer gave this Irishman a shilling forstanding for his portrait, he exclaimed, Thanks to your ho-nour, an acre of performance is worth the whole land of pro-mise. Z3. aunx^r/r _9AJ rea^ /(mj/h GINGERBREAD NUTS, OR JACKS LAST XXIII. rm^1 HE etching in front of the present Plate, was taken from Daniel Clarey, an industrious Irishman, well knownto the London schoolboy as a gingerbread-nut lottery officekeeper. Dan had fought for his country as a seaman,and though from some unlucky circumstance he is notentitled to the comforts of Greenwich Hospital, still heboasts of the honour of losing his leg in an engagement onthe Salt Seas. Rendered almost destitute by the loss ofhis limb, he was nevertheless not wanting in wit to gain alivelihood, and became a vendor of gingerbread-nuts, whichhe disposed of by way of lottery, and humourously calls thisemployment, Jacks last Shift. Though Dan is inferior insome respects to his lively countryman M^Conwick, who has af-forded theme for the preceding pages, yet he is blessed with asufficient memory to recollect
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