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 bowl of punch passed in spiritual discourse, and O'Rourke had assured the laird, that if he would join the methodists in their prayers and spiritual devotions, his pleasures at other times should not be an inch abridged. By the end of the second bowl, this new disciple had come to a kind of compromise, that he should attend to all the prayers and devotions which did not interfere with the club-hours. This point of conscience being satisfactorily settled, they proceeded in their jovial career. The acquired gravity of the saint gave way to the natural vivacity of the Irishman. O'Rourke sang several songs, and told several comical stories, and was actually engaged in the first stanza of

"Sweet Molly Mog is as soft as a bog! As wild as a kitten, &c."