set Coffee-house in the Strand, where he came, in the year
1832, to wait upon me), and I saw him go from thence into the gin-shop
opposite, and come out of the gin-shop half-an-hour afterwards, reeling
across the streets, and perfectly intoxicated.

He died next year: when his widow, who called herself Mrs.
Hoggarty-Grimes-Wapshot, of Castle Hoggarty, said that over the grave of
her saint all earthly resentments were forgotten, and proposed to come
and live with us; paying us, of course, a handsome remuneration. But
this offer my wife and I respectfully declined; and once more she altered
her will, which once more she had made in our favour; called us
ungrateful wretches and pampered menials, and left all her property to
the Irish Hoggarties. But seeing my wife one day in a carriage with Lady
Tiptoff, and hearing that we had been at the great ball at Tiptoff
Castle, and that I had grown to be a rich man, she changed her mind
again, sent for me on her death-bed, and left me the farms of Slopperton
and Squashtail, with all her savings for fifteen years. Peace be to her
soul! for certainly she left me a very pretty property.

Though I am no literary man myself, my cousin Michael (who generally,
when he is short of coin, comes down and passes a few months with us)
says that my Memoirs may be of some use to the public (meaning, I
suspect, to himself); and if so, I am glad to serve him and them, and
hereby take farewell: bidding all gents who peruse this, to be cautious
of their money, if they have it; to be still more cautious of their
friends' money; to remember that great profits imply great risks; and
that the great shrewd capitalists of this country would not be content
with four per cent. for their money, if they could securely get more:
above all, I entreat them never to embark in any speculation, of which
the conduct is not perfectly clear to them, and of which the agents are
not perfectly open and loyal.

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