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Episodically I may say, that the purchaser read it to such purpose, that within a week he rose to the honor of sleeping in the station-house, from which keep he was rescued by a tearful friend, who sent him to the country, solitude, and spruce-beer. "It is useless," says the Staggerite, "for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muses."
It became a regular joke afterwards when I told the story, and at 'White's' or the 'Cocoa-tree' you would hear the wags say, 'Waiter, bring me one of Captain Barry's rhymes for Aristotle. Once, when I was in liquor at the latter place, young Dick Sheridan called me a great Staggerite, a joke which I could never understand.
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