Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 218

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Lumley the Wizard

Jack Coker sixties

James Gilbert Fifties

Jas. Carter, vegetables

Waterlow’s sausage

[and another, illegible]

Matt. Joyce was a butcher and the original owner of C. Turner’s run on the North road. He had a butcher’s shop on the Terrace near Cashel St. True enough, Matt said, even in those days, there was untold coal on the Grey. Poor Matt ! He also disappeared.

Charley Cooper, a fine handsome young fellow, with a fine crop of curly brown hair, was a dentist, the dentist of those days. But he was a rare racket. Many a story could be told of his doings. He [hole in page] used to go round town together, and get up to bits of fun. Poor Charley wound up by not taking Sam Wellers’s advice, “Beware of the widows!” He married one, and not a young one, an old Scotch body, the widow of David Anderson, also a dentist. He soon after died.

The first Town girls came out in the Mystery about 1857. Some of them were from Reformatories. A lot soon commenced business. One of them was burnt to death in Colombo St North.

Before their advent there was no recognized institution of the sort. Business was of course done “under the rose”.

“Another stagger an I have ye” – that was Ayres’style of address.