Sir Gammer Vans

The story related by S. G. is the same that I inquired after, and I admire the accuracy of his memory, for his version is, for the greater part, *literally* the same that I heard in Ireland sixty years ago. A few passages, as that about *hipper switches*, I do not recollect; and one or two that I remember are wanting—the one, that the narrator was received in "a little *oak* parlour" of, I forget what, different character; the other, that Sir Gammer's "mother," or "aunt, was a justice of peace, and his sister a captain of horse." I find that Goldsmith's allusion is to this last passage, with s…