HAD. ENOUGH TROUBLE. ■v In-.■one of his after-dinner speeches Horace Porter once told this story Y _ After having wrestled with about 30 dishes at this,dinner, and after all this, bning called .upon to speak; I feel a great sympathy with that : woman an Ireland who had had something of a field-day on hajad. .'She began by knocking down two some- ; what unpopular agents of - ; her absentee •landlord, and was seen later in.the day dancing a jig on the stomach of the prosfjtrate; formrof the. Presbyterian minister. :«-One her friends admired her ,prowess Sm this v direetion and invited her' in and ; gwohjer jp good: stiff glass of whasky. Her siriend said:'"Shall I pour some water in :gyouT"'• and the . wonwn replied: I had: trouble ajwady to-day?"
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Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 9
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126Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 9
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