SOME AMUSING HIBERNICISMS.
Sir Boyle Roche is best known to fame as the man who smelt a rat, saw him floating in the air and nipped him in the bud; but a writer in the current Cornhill has unearthed some less familiar bulls from the same eminent source. For example, discoursing on the relations between England and Ireland, Sir Boyle declared that ‘he is an enemy to both kingdoms who wishes to diminish the brotherly affections of the two sister countries.’ This is, however, no better than the benevolent wish of the Governor of Georgia, in his speech at the last Atlanta Exposition, that the occasion might be an entering wedge which would bring about a more perfect unity between North and South.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XXIII, 4 June 1898, Page 702
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123SOME AMUSING HIBERNICISMS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XXIII, 4 June 1898, Page 702
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