IRISH—OR ASHAMED.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVII, Issue 4514, 11 April 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

IRISH—OR ASHAMED.

At a social gathering near Auckland the other day a well-known clergyman told this story; Ho had, ho said, once asked a Scotsman what he would be if ho wore not a Scotsman. “I think I would bo an Englishman,” was the reply. _A little later the clergyman met an Irishman, and in the course of conversat:on ho asked him a similar question. “ What would I bo if I were not an Irishman?” repeated the other thoughtfully. “Sure, and I would te ashamed of myself I” -