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Clutha Leader, Volume IX, Issue 482, 5 January 1883, Page 2

Although it is dangerous to have too ] much knowledge of certain subjects, it '; is still more dangerous to be totally ; ignorant of them. — Colombat. '! Discretion is more necessary to , women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little. — Father Dv Bose. A Drove of 'Irish Bulls.'—Tullymuckleschrag, parish of Ballyragget, near Ballyshlugbguothery, in the county of Kilkenny, in Ireland. — My dear nephew,-— I haven't sent you a letter since the last time I wrote you, bekase we removed from our former place of living, and consequently I couldn't tell where a letter would find you. But I now, with pleasure, take up my pen to inform you of the death of your own living uncle Kilpatrick, who died very suddenly last week after a lingering illness of six months. N The poor man was in violent convulsions during the whole time of his sickness, lying perfectly quiet and spacliless all the while, talking incoherently and calling for wather. I had no time to inform you of his death sooner, except I had wrote to you by the last post, which went ten. days before he died, and then you'd had postage tr» pay. lamat a loss to tell you what his death was occasioned by, but I fear it was by his last sickness, for he was never well ten days together during the whole of his confinement, and I believe his death was occasioned by his ating too much rabbits schtuffed with pays and grayy — or pays and gravy schtuffed with rabbits — I can't tell which ; but be that as it may, as soon as he breathed his last the docthers gave up all hopes of his recovery. I can't tell you anything ■ about his age, for you well know that ' *. in March next he'd have been forty- .j five years ould, lacking ten months, '•'■ and had he lived till that time he'd } been jist six months dead. His ?■ property now revolves to his next of kin, who died some time ago, so that I expect it will be divided between us,, and you know his property was some- ; thing very considerable, for he had a. 'I fine estate that was sould to pay his> ; debts, and the remainder he lost in a horse race, and it was the opinion i of everyone at the time that he :.; would have won if the horse he ran ; against hadn't been too fast for him. ; I never saw a man, and the dochters ! all say so, that obsarved directions and . tuck medicine better than he did. He ' = said he'd as lave take bitter alloways as sugar candy, if it had only the same taste. But, poor soul, he will niver J ate or drink more, and you haven't a t living relation left in the wide world ! except myself and your two cousins, who were kilt in the last war. I can't , dwell on this mournful subject, and I ' 1 shall sale my lether with black sal in- ■- wax and put on it your uncle's coat of ; arms, so I beg you to break the sale i when you open this lether, and don't I opin it till three or four days after ; you have received it, by which time : ] you will be prepared for the sorrowful )) tidings. Your sweetheart, Judy M'Gee ' ■ \ sends you her love unknowst to me. "^ When Pat Finegan arrives in Ameriky lp ax him for this lether, and if he doesn't 7 j know it from the rest, tell him its the j'N one that spakes about your uncle's. J death and saled in black. I remain ■ your affectionate grandmother, Julia O'Hooligan, — To Larry O'Hooligan,. [' now in , America, f orninst: the .pump., f N.B. — Don't write to me again until you receive this. P.S. — When you :.'-.} come to this place stop, and doix't read J any more tillniy-'nextv. ]J