IRISH BULLS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 28 November 1891, Page 644

IRISH BULLS.

Ax Irish gentleman was entertained by a party of Englishmen at a hotel in a certain town in England, and the conversation turned on Irish bulls, and the Irish gentleman, being a little nettled, said, ‘Bulls, bulls, what are you bothering one about bulls for? You ean’t talk about an Irishman without speaking of a bull. You have as many bulls in England as we. In England you are bull-headed, and bull-tempered, and bull necked ; you are John Bull ; you are bull all over. Now, you can’t pnt up a sign on a public-house without sticking up a bull. In the very street where we are sitting now there are six public houses with signs of bulls.’ ‘ Oh, no,’ said one of the gentlemen, ‘ not so many as that.’ ‘ But I tell yon there are, just so many,’ ‘ No, we have counted them, and we know there are not six.’ * Well, I will wager the dinner for the company in the same place where we are sitting now, that there are six public houses with signs of bulls on them.’ * Very well, let’s hear them.’ ‘ There is the White Bull, that’s one ; the Black Bull is two : the Brown Bull is three ; the Spotted Bull is four ; the Pied Bull is five .’ ‘ Ah, that’s all, that’s all,’ ‘ No, there’s another one.’ ‘ Ah, but we know better.’ ‘ I tell yon there’s another one. Black, white, brown, spotted, pied, and there’s the Red Cow.’ ‘ Ha, ha; that’s an Irish bull.’ ‘ Very well, if the Red Cow is an Irish bull, that makes six, and I’ve won my wager.’