Dr. Nathaniel Kelly was an eminent physician in the town of Plaistow, N. H., where he was born in 1800. He represented his town in the state Legislature. Dr. Langley Kelly was another distinguished physician residing in Weare, N. H., in 1878. In placing the foregoing names before the reader, one cannot help being surprised at the number of men bearing a distinctive Irish name appearing in either the Town, Provincial or State records of New Hampshire. Even in our day but comparatively few men have their names printed in the public records. It is safe, therefore, to say that the greater part of these men had done something to specially merit them a place in the records. Again, a good idea can be formed of the number of men bearing distinctively Irish names, as the number of persons bearing this one name figured in New Hampshire affairs, or a greater part of them, before 1800, an unusually large proportion of them having seen service in the Provincial wars or in the war for independence. Assuredly, a most fitting conclusion to this article will be Mr. Joseph I. C. Clarke’s poem: THE FIGHTING RACE. “Read out the names!” and Burke sat back, And Kelly dropped his head, While Shea—they called him Scholar Jack— Went down the list of the dead: Officers, seamen, gunners, marines, The crews of the gig and the yawl, The bearded man and the lad in his ’teens, Carpenters, coal passers—all. Then, knocking the ashes from out his pipe, Said Burke, in an off-hand way: “We’re all in that dead-man’s list, by cripe!— Kelly and Burke and Shea.” “Well, here’s to the Maine, and I’m sorry for Spain,” Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. “Wherever there’s Kellys there’s trouble,” said Burke, “Wherever fighting’s the game, Or a spice of danger in grown man’s work,” Said Kelly, “you’ll find my name.” “And do we fall short,” said Burke, getting mad, “When it’s touch and go for life?” Said Shea: “It’s thirty odd years, bedad, Since I charged, to drum and fife, Up Marye’s Heights, and my old canteen Stopped a rebel ball on its way. There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green— Kelly and Burke and Shea— And the dead didn’t brag!” “Well, here’s to the flag!” Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.