A DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT.
Some of the British troops in the Irish rebellion did not fight particularly well. A certain general, at a Lord-Lieutienant’s party in Dublin, was admonishing a begging woman to leave the place when she said: 'lt is I that am prom! to see your honour here in the red coat you wore the very day when you saved the life of my boy, little Mickie.’ ‘lndeed!’ replied the general, not sorry to hear anything to his credit on such a distinguished occasion, T had forgotten all about it. How did 1 save his life?’ ‘Well, your honour, when the battle was at its hottest your honour was the first to run, and when my little Mickie saw the gineral run he ran too, the Lord l»e praised!’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIX, 7 May 1898, Page 581
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130A DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIX, 7 May 1898, Page 581
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