Quite Irish.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 13

Quite Irish.

After tramping a long, weary way, an Irishman remarked that he did not see ■why they did not put the milestones nearer together. Tn an Irish newspaper there once appeared the (following announcement: “ Owing to lack of space a number of deaths are unavoidably postponed.” Speaking of a serious illness, an Irishman said: “1 lay spaaehless for six weeks, and all my cry was wather, wather! ” A certain Irishman, in speaking of his wife, said that she was most ungrateful, for when he married her she did not have a rag to her back, but in a little while she was covered with them. When told that a certain stove would save half the fuel used in an ordinary one, an inhabitant of Cork declared that he would buy two and save all the fuel. An Irish servant was told to tell it man that an engagement had been made to meet him at noon. “ And what shall I tell him if I can’t find him,” answered Pat.

“It is a great comfort to lx- by yonrself," said an Irish lover, “especially if your sweetheart is with von.”

In sentencing a prisoner an Irish judge said: “You are to hang, and I hope it will be a warning to you.”