"'On the corner.' "'What corner?' "'The corner nearest to where they're buildin' the shtore.' "'Where is that?' "Where I was workin'.' "_The Court._--What was O'Neil doing when you found him? "_Officer._--He was lying very drunk in a hole which he had been digging. "_Prisoner._--Be me sowl you're wrong for wonst; I didn't dig the howl; I dug out the dirt and left the howl. "'Were you ever up before the Court before?' "'No, nor behind aither; when I want to be again, I'll sind to your honor and let ye know.' "'If I let you of this time will you keep sober?' "'Faith I will, unliss the Dutchmin keep betther liquor nor they do now.' "'You may go.' "'Thank ye, sir--ye're a gintleman, av there iver was wan.' "Mr. Timothy O'Neil left the court-room." Mr. Dropper also proposed to relate the experience of some half a dozen mornings which he had spent in the pursuit of amusement under difficulties, when he had occupied himself in seeing the sights around the Jefferson Market Police Court. "On one of the mornings which I devoted to visiting the Tombs," said Mr. Dropper, "the class of prisoners varied. Most of them claimed to be from the western of the British Isles. Others said they were born in Cork, Clare, Down, and other counties. A number answered to patronymics to which were prefixed the letter O, and an apostrophe. One party, who called themselves Fardowners, looked brick-bats at another party who occupied a remote corner of the cage, and who claimed to be Connaughtmen. The remainder of the prisoners were Irish. "An interesting feature in the proceedings of the morning was a case in which Owen Shaughnessy, Patrick Mulholland, Michael O'Shea, Timothy Leahey, Dennis Maroney, Dermot McDermott, Phelim Flannegan, Bridget O'Keefe, Mary McBride, Ellen Dougherty and Bridget Casey were the defendants. As the Judge called out their names, the prisoners severally responded. They were all, as their names would indicate, of Irish birth. The men, evidently long-shoremen and laborers, and the women, servants. Their garments, in some instances, were torn, and in other ways disarranged and soiled. The men, and in one or two instances the women, showed bruises about their faces and hands, indicating their active participation in a recent scrimmage, from the effects of which they had not had the time, or soap and water, to enable them to recover.