Enquire within upon everything by Robert Kemp Philp

According to the directions given by Mr. B. H. Smart, an Irishman wishing to throw off the brogue of his mother country should avoid hurling out his words with a superfluous quantity of breath. It is not _broadher_ and _widher_ that he should say, but the _d_, and every other consonant, should be neatly delivered by the tongue, with as little riot, clattering, or breathing as possible. Next let him drop the roughness or rolling of the _r_ in all places but the beginning of syllables; he must not say _stor-rum_ and _far-rum_, but let the word be heard in one smooth syllable. He should exercise himself until he can convert _plaze_ into _please_, _planty_ into _plenty_, _Jasus_ into _Jesus_, and so on. He should modulate his sentences, so as to avoid directing his accent all in one manner--from the acute to the grave. Keeping his ear on the watch for good examples, and exercising himself frequently upon them, he may become master of a greatly improved utterance. [TEA FIRST USED IN ENGLAND A.D. 1698.]