Birth-day

One, Frugal, on his Birth-Day fears to dine: / Does at a Penny's coſt in Herbs repine, / And hardly dares to dip his Fingers in the Brine.

“He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birth-day is the 23d—just a fortnight and a day’s difference! which is very odd!”

The Manx attach great importance to the qualtagh, or first person met with on the occurrence of any particularly important event, as in going to the fishery, the first day of the new year, a birth-day or a christening.