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Excerpt from Charles O'malley, Vol. 2 of 2: The Irish Dragoon
AS for the men, I don't admire them so much: pleasant and cheerful enough when they're handicapping the coat off your back, and your new tilbury for a Spavined pony and a cotton umbrella, but regular devils if you come to cross them the least in life; nothing but ten paces, three shots a-piece, to begin and end with something like Roger de Coverley, when every one has a pull at his neighbor. I 'm not saying they're not agreeable, well-informed, and mild in their habits; but they lean overmuch to corduroys and coroners' inquests for one's taste farther south. However, they 're a fine people, take them all in all and if they were not interfered with, and their national customs invaded with road-making, petty-sessions, grand-jury laws, and a stray commission now and then, they are capable of great things, and would astonish the world.
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