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kn $ w , Sir . It ' s only old Guy , Sir ; pnly once a year . " Another will tell you that it is " something about gunpowder treason , but what he cannot
say . " A third , more learned , will improve upon the other , by informing you that Guy Fox is " the Pope , and that the Pope once intended to blow up the Parliament . "— " And who
is the Pope ?"— " Oh , I don ' t know , Sir ; the devil , I believe . Father says that in his time they used to say , the Pope and the Devil . "— " But if it is the
Pope and the Devil , how can the Pope be the Devil ?"" Don't know indeed , Sir : a sort of relation , I suppose . JDo Sir ; only once a year /' So saying , they dance off , delighted with their halfpence ,
and carrying their scarecrow to some other house , feeling in truth a sort of affection for poor old Guy , who brings them so much money , and is so merrily unintelligible .
The little boys are wiser m their ignorance than the big Tories . Also they are more candid in their money-getting . They know nothing , and do not pretend otherwise , about the matter , except that it is
" only once a year / ' and that they want your halfpence . They feel that Guy Fawkes is no longer anything but a scarecrow ; and ask your money , not
upon jthe strength of the tragedy , but the goodness of the jest . Bijt the . Tories are now going 9-bout with this ghost of a by-gone time , seriously telling- u § that he is a very fprmii-
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able person , and begging money for subscriptions to ninaerf Ms getting into Parlianieni ¦!! The old spirit of Popery , instead of getting weaker everyday , or merging into the
growing liberality of all other sects , has , according to them , been acquiring strength all the white we were laughing at it , and caricaturing it , and forgetting it by reason of its very harmlessness : till at length , not
content with being a jest for its insignificance , and personating a miserable devil who skulked underneath the Parliament-House with a tinder-box , Guy
Fawkes is come to life again in the jovial person of Daniel O'Connell , and with a frightful impudence has taken possession of a seat in the House . There
he sits , frightening Lord Boden and Sir Harcourt Lees , laughing and triumphing , and lighting the tinder-box of his intention as coolly as if it were a cigar , in order to blow Queen , Lords , and Commons to the
devil . Nay , old Guy is not content with being one man , liowever jolly . He is a small nuxnbet of Catholics besides ; and what is very extraordinary , a good
many Protestant gentlemen ! Nay , if you come to that , he is the whole Treasury Bench , and the new Bishop ^ . Dr Stanley will never be satisfied , till he
sees the Smithfield fires Renewed . LordJolhn Russell tears his hair to tlujnk , ityfy w > Catholic will hasten to talce repossession of ^ V pburn Abbey . The whole T ; reasuj : y Jjejpcft , did we my zuid '" 'f&e JWf
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Quy Fawkep and Modern Catholicism * 3 $ JL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/55/
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