An old Irish lady had a reputation for being a very strict disciplinarian, although a loving wife and the mother of a large family. She was the sort of woman who would not tolerate much nonsense from anybody. One day she met the priest, who, in the course of conversation, remarked to her, “Do you know, I think your husband is one of the most saintly men I have ever met!” “Shure, and why shouldn’t he be," was her reply. “Haven’t I the devil knocked out of him years ago?”
An Englishman was walking along a river bank in Ireland when it started to rain. Presently he found an Irishman fishing with his line under a bridge. “Why,” he asked, “have you got your line like that?” “Sure, your honour,” replied the angler, “won’t the fishes be crowdin in out of the wet?”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3840, 30 November 1936, Page 2
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