[251] Evening Packet.
[252] He did not even escape the shafts of ridicule. A writer in the Dublin Nation, imitating the Witches' scene in Macbeth, thus attacked him:—
1st Cook—Round about the boiler go,
In twice fifty gallons throw—
Water that in noisome tank
Mossed with verdure rich and rank.
2nd Cook—Shin of beef from skinny cow
In the boiler then you'll throw;
Onion sliced and turnip top,
Crumb of bread and cabbage chop.