WHAT HOME RULE WILL BRING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XV, 13 October 1894, Page 360

WHAT HOME RULE WILL BRING.

The special correspondent in Ireland of the Birmingham Daily Gazette states that the Westport folks are looking for great things from the great Parliament in College Green. A Sligo man who has lived in Dublin was the other day holding forth on these prospective benefits, his only auditor being one Michael, an ancient waiter of the finest Irish brand. The Sligo man said : • I seen the mails go on the boat at Kingstown, an’ there was hundhreds of bags, no less.’ • Heavenly Fa-a-ther 1’ said Michael, throwing up eyes and hands. • Divil a lie in it. ’Twas six hundred, I believe.’ ' Holy Moses preserve us !’ • An’ the rivinue is millions an’ millions o’ pounds.’ • The saints in glory !’ ‘ An’ wid Home Rule we’d have all that for Oireland.’ • Julius Saysar an’ Nebuchadnezzar !’ • Forty millions o’ golden sovereigns, divil a less.’ • Thunder an’ onns, but ye startle me !’ • An’ we’re losin’ all that ’ • Save an’ deliver us !’ ‘ Because the English takes it ’ • Holy Virgin undefiled !’ • To pay peelers an’ sojers ’’ • The divil’s end to thim ’’ ‘ To murther an’ evict us ’ • Lord help us !’ ‘ An’ collect taxes an’ rint.’ ‘ ! !! !' ' ’

Some reformers remind us of the man who would abolish keyholes, because they stimulate curiosity.