Untitled

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 51, 7 October 1892, Page 5

Travellers' wooden are notoriona. Those narrated the other day in Edinburgh by a traveller from Belfast are not likely to detract from their reputation. This adventurer— one Professor Barrett— ststed at a public meeting that in Ireland it was a habit among publicans, when a fair was to be held in any of their tcwns, " to sprinkle the pavement with whiskey to tempt the people." Fancy Paddy j figuring like a fly with sugar. Disgust at the unthrifty Irish ways j ■bown by bach waste, however, was the chief sentiment excited by the Professor among his audience. Sandy is more sanny than that, whether as the tempter or the tempted.