His Only Regret.
A story Is told me of the late Sir Redmond Barry. Truth er fiction I cannot say, but a good story — good enough for the good man gone to rest. There was in Melbourne 1 a person named Bulfinoh, a creature with one characteristic — his immediate progenitor had been a baron. *My father, the baron,' was ever on his lips. It is not difficult to Imagine such a one becoming an intolerable nuisance. Bulfinoh was a nuisance —in society, one evening, an ntolerable nuisance. Sir Redmond called the offending one aside, with intent to administer a healing rebuke.- ' I have an infinite respeot for you, sir, bnt mingled with regret.' Bulfinoh found cause for self-gratulation In the words but the end was not yet. ' Your father, I have heard, was a baron.' Bulfinch acquiesced. ♦ My regret, sir, is, that your mother w*s not bar on too.' — Sydney Mail.
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Otago Witness, Volume 15, Issue 1562, 15 October 1881, Page 28
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151His Only Regret. Otago Witness, Volume 15, Issue 1562, 15 October 1881, Page 28
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