AN AGED SPIRIT-DRINKER.
Daniel Bull McCarthy, of the County of Kerry, Ireland, died 1752, aged 1 iI. At the ago of eighty-four he married a fifth wife, a girl little more than fourteen years of age, by whom he had twenty children—one every subsequent year of his life. It was remarked that he was scarcely ever seen to expectorate; nor did any extent of cold ever seem to affect him. For the last seventy years of his life, when in company, he drank plentifully of rum and brandy, which he always took neat; and, if, in compliance with solicitations, he took wine or punch, always drank an equal sized glass of rum or brandy, which he designated a wedge. The temperature of his body was generally so hot that he could hear but little clothing, either by day or night on his person.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 297, 20 February 1878, Page 4
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143AN AGED SPIRIT-DRINKER. Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 297, 20 February 1878, Page 4
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