Mr O'Reilly Dease, who has left the bulk of his property to pay off the National Debt (says ' Truth') was a very curious gentleman. He made on an average half-a-dozen wills every week, and no sooner did he make them than he tore them in minute pieces and burnt them in the fireplace. I suppose he had forgotten to burn the will made on July 31, 1871. He evidently, at the moment when this will was written, was thinking more of his country than his own soul, for he devised only LIOO to be expended in masses for the repose of that soul, whereas he bequeathed nearly L 40.000 to the country. A wicked little boy says that home without a mother would be a picnic all the week.
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Evening Star, Issue 7412, 6 January 1888, Page 2
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129Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 7412, 6 January 1888, Page 2
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