A workhouse in Ireland required a new paling, and the guardians economically appointed an old inmate (a carpenter) to do the work. When, the old man had the work half done the master and a Local Government Board Inspector paid him a visit, when the following dialogue took place : "What aro you doing, my good manP" Carpenter: "I am doing what the great Dau O'Connell himself couldn't do-—T am' rcpnling (repealing) the "'i ioilj"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10450, 2 May 1912, Page 3
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