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CONTENTS

CHAPTER III.

1769.

Infant speculations.-Aunt Carleton's pets.-Madam Keatinge. -Introduction of boarded floors.-A court of justice dissolved in laughter.-An army officer flogged at school.-Further no- tices of the first Abraham Shackleton.-He visits Burke at Beaconsfield. His last illness.-Is visited by the lovely bride, Mary Watson. His death and funeral.-Burke's letter to Richard Shackleton on the occasion.-James and Nanny Mc Connaughty. Vain sports and places of diversion.-Sabbath breaking. Mummers in Ballitore.-A fairy doctor turns school- master.—Death of young Black in the American war.-A "second Tom Eyre."-Little David Skinner. 69 to 91 - CHAPTER IV. 1772. - Last days of Aldborough Wrightson-The first Jew visits Balli- tore. He exhibits a mandrake.-Story of Lady Cathcart.- A mail coach accident.-A father's blessing. A relic of the penal laws. The "honourable" George.-A mauvais sujet.- William Leadbeater.-Aldworth Phaire-Marriage of Mar- garet Shackleton.-Death of Aunt Carleton.-Aldborough Wrightson's grave.- Heroism of Arabella Forbes.-Tom Eyre rebuked by a blockhead.-Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton remove to the Retreat. -Marriage of the second Abraham Shackleton to Lydia Mellor.-Sketch of the bride.-Death of a "convinced Friend."-Birth of the second Richard Shack- leton. Lines addressed to the infant by his grandfather.- Molly Hudson begins a twenty years' visit to the Retreat.- A convict rescued from "the Duke of the World."-A tender- hearted Judge. Reminescences and anecdotes of the Author's parents. 92 to 130

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