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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 21, 7 May 1892, Page 9

. ' An Irish gentleman was entertained by a party 6i' Englishmen at an hotel in a certain '•town: in England, arid!.the -conversation turned ;on Irish bulls, and the Irishman,' feeing-a little nettled, said, ". Bulls,' bulls, what are you bothering one about' bulls for ? ■You can't talk' about an Irishman without • speaking of a bull. 1ou» have as: many'bulls fin/England, as we haye. Mn England you Vare bull-headed, arid bull-tempered, and .bull-necked;, you are John Bull;'you are tMllall over. Now, you-can't put up a sign ■on a public-house without sticking up a, 'bulU In the very street where we are • sitting- now there are six public-houses with "signs of bulls." ■"Oh, no," said one of the •gentlemen, "not so many as that;" "But ! I tell you there are: just so .many." " No, we !have> counted them, and we know that ■there are,not six.". Well, I will wager the -dinner for the company in the same place we>are sitting now, that there are six public-houses with signs of'bulls on them," "Very well, let's hear them." „ There is '•the .White Bull, that's one ; .the Black Bull is two; the Brown Bull is three; the ;Sbt)tted Bull is four; the Pied Bull is ifiyeV the—" "Ah, that's all, that's all" '"I tell you there's anothorrbne. Black, "white, brown, spotted, pied, and there's the Red i Cow:.?' : /'iHa., ha;! 1 an Irish ibull." "Very well, if the Ked Cow is anUrish bull, that:makes six, and.l've won.my vwager." t