body, and Dan Cullen contended that the thing was
done in order to run the water down into his body
from his legs and kill him more quickly. He de
manded his discharge, though they told him he
would die on the stairs, and dragged himself more
dead than alive to the cobbler s shop. At the moment

[{THE TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL}]

of writing this, he is dying at the Temperance Hos
pital, into which place his stanch friend, the cob
bler, moved heaven and earth to have him admitted.

Poor Dan Cullen ! A Jude the Obscure, who
reached out after knowledge; who toiled with his
body in the day and studied in the watches of the

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