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Southland Times, Issue 21361, 6 April 1931, Page 2

Four and twenty woodcock were recently baked in a pie and sent to King George as a Christmas present from Mr James McNeill, Governor-General of the Irish Free State. This follows a custom begun in 1913, when Lord Talbot, then Viceroy of Ireland, presented George 111. with a pie of 24 woodcock and associated with it the old nursery rhyme. Every Viceroy since then has made a similar gift. Mr Tim Healy, the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, continued the practice at the special request of the outgoing Viceroy, Lord Fitz Alan. Mr Healy made one change in the century-old custom. The pie has always been made in the vice-regal kitchen, but Mr Healy sent the woodcock to a famous firm in Piccadilly to be made into the historic pie. "Mr James McNeill has followed that example; Midget gqlf has been introduced as part of the cure for “nerve cases” in one American