IRISH HUMOUR.
Mr. P. L. Dickinson, one of six sons ot the Dean of the Chapel Boyal, Dublin, is a man of considerable humour. In his book, "The Dublin of Yesterday" (Methucn), Mr. Dickinson stales that his father dearly loved a -joke Opposing a certain Mr. Brush at 't meeting of the Synod, he exclaimed: My Lord, I never gave Mr. Brush a handle to make so sweeping an assertion." On another occasion, when a fellow parson named Jordan wan backing his car against the Dean's carriage, he was greeted with the tliaconal rebuke: "What ailed thee, thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?" The father's sense of humour descended on the son, and these reminiscences arc full of quality. Tho author relates how Dr. Alexander, Primate of All Ireland, and husband of the author of "Once in Royal David's City" and other popular hymns, had to be forced into a small village pulpit, owing to his obesity. Ho was pushed in by two small boys. And ho went in with a pop like a cork.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 20
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176IRISH HUMOUR. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 20
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