HOSPITABLE PAT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1676, 13 April 1904, Page 43 (Supplement)

HOSPITABLE PAT.

. « A certain sportsman took a shooting in Ireland. He was assured that it was a good sporting territory. When he arrived this was corroborated by the head keeper, a typical Paddy. The latter ceclared that the country fairly bristled with pheaisants. So they went out after them and in a day ppt up five. The nex day the tenant inquired after partridges, and was told the same tale; the shoot yielded about six. _ Woodlcock, grouse, capercailzie, every kindl of game Paddy told “his ’onner” were as thick as leaves in autumn, but they could not he found. At last he said angrily, “Are

there many rhinoceroses on the estate?” “Sure, yer Conner,” drawled Pat very slowly, “not many,” but, brightening tup, “you may put up two or three round the lake in the summer.” Long before the summer, of course, the tenancy would be at an end. “You confopinded rascal,” roared the tenant, “what do you mean by telling me all these lies?” “Shure,” said Pat with a true Hibernian grin, “an’ wouldn’t I be givin’ yer ’onner a pleasant answer?”