SPECIMEN BULLS.
Various correspondents have been sending the Spectator their first-hand recollections of bulls and blunders: — Hero aro a few : — . "Many years ago I heard the following notice read out in a Catholic church in England: — 'There wijl be a procession next Sunday afternoon in the grounds of the Monastery, but if it rains in the afternoon the procession will take place in the morning ' " "Amongst mixed metaphors the most delightful I think I have ever heard was the statement of a town councillor in a Hampshire town some years ago, during a discussion on projected expenditure on town improvement. 'Gentlemen, 1 he said, 'we will have nothing to do with it; it is but the thin end of a white elephant.' " 1"A distinguished leader of the Ulster Party, writing to me some time back, said:— 'Before, tho _ Home Rule Bill is enforced Asquith will_ have to walk over many dead bodies — his own included.' I think this Irish bull would take a prize in any show ' "
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 137, 11 June 1915, Page 3
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167SPECIMEN BULLS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 137, 11 June 1915, Page 3
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