decreasing. He readily promised his aid. "Every time you brew, Maggy,"
says he,
"go three
times to the left round the copper, and at each round take out a
ladle-full of water in the devil's name; then turn three times round to
the right, and each time throw in a ladle-full
of malt in God's name; but above all, wear this charm constantly on your
breast, and never during your life attempt to open it, or dread the
worst." She strictly conformed, and her business increased
astonishingly. On her death her friends ventured to open and examine
the charm, when they found it to contain these words: "If
Maggy will brew good ale, Maggy will have good sale." SHORT
DIALOGUE. _Lady_: You can not imagine, captain, how deeply I feel the
want of children, surrounded as I am by every
comfort--nothing else is wanting to render me supremely happy. _Captain
O'Flinn_: Faith, ma'am, I've heard o' that complaint running in
families; p'rhaps your
mother had not any childer either? A
BLUNT WITNESS. AT a late term of the Court
of Sessions a man was
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