FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
Among the hills of Sligo there is a small lake renowned in thut region for its fabulous depth. A well-known professor, who was in ,that part of livUind, started one day for a mountain, accompanied by a native guide. As they climbed Pat asktd him if he would like to see the laku, "for it has no bottom at all, sir." How do you know that, Pat?" asked the proiesnor. "Well, sir, l'l tell ye. Me tmn cousin was Bhowin' the pond to a gentleman one day, sir, and lie looked incredulous like ; and so he said. 'I'll prove the truth of me worda,' he uaid, and off with his clothes and into the water he jumped." The professor's face wore an amusea and - quizzical expression. "Yes, sir, in he jumped, and didn't come up again at all, at all." *'But," said the professor, "I don't see that he proved the point by drowning himself." "Is he drowned? Devil a bit drowned at all he was. Sure, didn't, a cablo come from him next day in Australia askin' for his clothes to be seat on \" \
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 10
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189FROM THE OTHER SIDE. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 10
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