SOME IRISH STORIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 3

SOME IRISH STORIES.

.1. M. CailtTe.U c.iintribut-.'s to 'Cornhill' for 'May some interesting old Irh'n memories. The following stones may be culkd. H«ie is hj criticism supplied by the writer's gardener on the Protectant mission: . " Pra.tcsta.nU !" he aaid. fccrnfiilly. '''Tww mighty little St. Paul thought of the. Pratestants. Ye've all heard tell of th' 'pis.tlo lie wrote to the Romans: but I'd ax ye this, did any. of yez iver he-ir of hi? writing y. 'pit-tle to the Pratestants?' Galwuy Town to have been fairly crowded by bathers and seekers of health": —"l'm n.'it one of thim that, crowds then houses" *aid one woman who catered for this c!as? of lodgers, in lofty scorn of her neighbors; "I'd nivcr put tbem to sleep more nor three in u bed." There Mas indeed almost a dignified seclusion iu such liberal accommodation, since Ihe more general custom was to let each corner of a- room to a separate family, who brought their own poor l«ddi»g and camped upon the floor as best they could. This is how an English lady learned the difference between successive and simultaneous: —An Englbih lady on a visit'to Gain ay on uno occasion demanded a tend ehower-bath. '" An' what might that V ma'am'" demanded Sibbie, to whom such tto-wors of speech were unkiuwn. "Tepid'/ Why half hot and half cold, t> he sure," was the impatient reply. The Jady undressed and, all unsuspecting, pulled the string. l>own came a deluge- of scatding water upon her.- "Let me out! let me out'" she screamed in alarm. "It was a tepid bath that I asked for." " Suro ye said that 'twas half hot and half could that 'twaa to be, an' here's tho could fcr ye," as another pailful was emptied down.