Note 4 — Chapter IV
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The lower Irish, to the end of life, continue to call every body by the appellation they knew them in youth. Many a "Master Billy and Miss Jenny" are, with all propriety, fathers and mothers of large families. The wives of the peasantry are always called by their maiden names amongst their equals; and parents speak of "the boy," or "the girl," even when past the grand climacteric.