SOME IRISH STORIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3297, 16 August 1911, Page 7

SOME IRISH STORIES.

j. W. Callwell contributes to “Goxuhill” for May some interesting old lrisn memories. The following stories may be culled. Here is a criticism supplied by the winter’s gardener on the Protestant mission :- — “Pratestants 1” he said scornfully. “ ’Twas mightly little St. Paul thought of the Pratestants. Ye’ve • all heard tell of th’ ’pistle.be,wrote to ' the Rorriairi j mbut -I’dNSac ye' this,' did any of yez iver hear of his writing a ’pistle to the Pratestants?” Galway Town seems to have been fairly crowded- by bathers and seekers of health: —“I’m not one of thim that crowds their houses,” said one woman who catered l for this class of lodgers, in lofty scorn of her neighbors; “I’d never” put them to sleep more nor three in. a bed.” There was indeed almost a dignified seclusion in such liberal accommodation, since the more general custom was to let each corner of a room to a separate family, who brought their own poor bedding and camped down upon the floor as best they could. This is how an English lady learned the difference between successive and simultaneous: —An English lady on a visit to Galway on one occasion demanded a tepid shower-bath. “An’ what might that be, ma’am?” demaned Sibbie to whom such flowers of speech were unknown . “Tepid? Why half hot and half cold, to be sure,” was the impatient reply. The lady undressed and, all unsuspecting, pulled the string. ~ Down came a deluge of scalding water upon her. “Let me out! let me out!” she screamed in alarm. “It was a tepid bath that I asked for.” “Sure ye said that ’twas half hot and half could that ’twas to be. an’ here’s the could t for ye,” as another pailful was emptied down.