CORNELIUS O'DOWD

CORNELIUS O'DOWD

UPON

MEN AND WOMEN

AND

OTHER THINGS IN GENERAL

Charles James Lever

I care not a fig

For Tory or Whig,

But sit in a bowl and kick round me.

SECOND SERIES

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXV

The Right of Translation is reserved

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE

JAN 13 37 Travid

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THE HONOURABLE

JUDGE LONGFIELD, LL.D.

ETC. ETC.

MY DEAR LONGFIELD,

I NEITHER EXPECT NOR ASK YOU TO READ

MORE OF THIS VOLUME THAN THESE LINES IN WHICH I

DEDICATE IT TO YOU-A SOUVENIR OF ALL OUR PLEASANT

EVENINGS TOGETHER LONG AGO, WHEN WE TALKED OVER
SCORES OF SUCH THINGS AS THESE IN HAPPIER VEIN THAN

I CAN NOW WRITE OR EVEN THINK OF THEM.

YOUR OLD FRIEND,

C. O'D.

LAGO MAGGIORE, January 1865.

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