A QUESTION ANSWERED.

A SAILOR on ship-board, having fallen from the mizen-top, but his fall

having been broken by the rigging, got up on the quarter deck, little

hurt. The lieutenant asked where he _came from_? "Plase your honor,"

replied he, "I came from _the north of Ireland_."

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