THEY WALK SLOWLY
BUT THINK QUICKLY
There is still a wealth of hospitality in the brogue of the people of the North of Ireland, according to the Rev. Dean W; J. McElhinney, of Rockhampton, Queensland, who arrived by the Rangitane yesterday afternoon. He has been on a visit there after an absence of thirty years. It was too long a break, he declared. Even so. Dean McElhinney has been able to preserve a keen sense of humour, as was plain in a brief interview a "Post" reporter had with him.
"Yes," he said, "thirty years is too long to delay a visit. I should have gone back after twenty years. All the people I looked up to there in my day are now dead and the people who are how dictating the policy were in swaddling clothes." The country looked well, though, continued Dean McElhinney^ and the people looked well. But they walked as though they had been treading through heavy clay all their lives.
And then with a little pressure on the arm of the interviewer and a merry twinkle in his eye, Dean McElhinney said: "But you have to forgive them for walking so slowly and thinking so quickly." With that, the Dean dashed off down a passage-way.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 15
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210THEY WALK SLOWLY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 15
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