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POOR DENNIS
AN IRISH TALE.
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In the harvest of 1798, a stranger applied to Mr. S——— for employment; he was an uncommonly able young man, and did as much work as any two of the labourers, yet he never threw off his coat as the others did, and his left arm was tied up; he said, he had, received a slight hurt in it from a splinter of wood: as he looked very pale and thin, Mr. S——— from, motives of humanity, allowed