THE IRISH BULL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 262, 2 November 1918, Page 15

THE IRISH BULL.

SOM.B CLASSIC KXAMI'I.ES. Wlr EWwnnl S.rillvan Is not a veterinary surj.-pou. t,ul be gave skilful treatment to ■The Irish Bull" in a diverting address helped by a mellifluous Iris-h brogue to the Itoyal UrtUsh Nurses- Association. ' He pointed out that the House of Com-' mons hail he.-n a proline l»nllrIn X , and that |. s " n "' uf its most distinguished members had released ibeni. Mr. Gladstone, on one wi-a-sion. when Interrupted in a speech, said:| "It is no use for the honourable member to '■ shake his head In the teeth of his own ■ wurilH." In the thirds. Ujrti CntTson, speak- \. ins on s lic-pnstnft bill. annonnce<l that "the!, the same nine tim-e* out of ten—l would I] even say ninety-nine times out of ten." In'! earlier (Lays, in the Ixiwcr Howe. Sir! l I*atrick <>-I!rien passionately exclaimed,'' "Mj unhappy country is swarming with ' absentee landlords." ! In Dublin at tne height of the rebellion] 1 In Master week. 1916, a smaJJ boy who! escaped from Sackrille Street described it tn ■! his friends as "allTe with corpses." In a! pamphlet issued by the Irish commissioners of national education the annonncement ap- , ' [•eared: '"The'women tcni4]ers an- beinp- instructed in plain oootinß. They have had. 1 In faot, to go tkroug-h the procp« of cooking ' thehmelves." ' An Irish mother, her son.' for a job in a railway company, wrote: "li' urn plensod to say that my boy is a non- ' smoker and a non-teetotaler." Michael Murphy, wHio had bought a new pair of boots, said to his wife: "I'll never K et them!* on until I ti.ive worn them a day or two." !' Sir Kdward reonlled the case- of a hull ) made In very tragic circumstances, a prl-1 soner who was awaitinjr death at Kilmain- ' ham caol was taken seriously m on the' , evening before his execution. The prison ij doctor was called in. He sent a hurried note to Dublin Castle bo this effect: "In my npfnlon the prisoner can not be removed from the cell to the place of execution with-, 3Ut irunrinMit dnnccr to bis lifo." jJ i neisiibour for threatening to murder her. I' ■What particular form did the threat take?" j 1 iuTuired the magistrate. "Bcporra, jxinri' worship." said the complainant. "she ! ■hreatpned to Whitewash the lane with my < >lood." An Trish farmer, waldnß np In the,' lipht, saw an np-paritlon at the foot of the f ■d perforated the ghost with a bullet. Ini' he m<irnlnc tic discovered tlmr he had ■n.ndp a target of his own shirt. "What! , lid you do then?" inquired a friend. "I « nrt knelt down and thanked God," he said, ' •Uiat I hadnt been Inside it." 1 1 1