Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — Hibernicisms. [ARTICLE]

Hibernicisms.

“I like action,” remarked a candid Celt, “but I hate work.” This is a home truth of the widest application to the Irish character. Among special Celtic characteristics, a prominent place should be given to the power of apology. “It was not the dthrop I had taken,” said a Kerry peasant charged with being drunk and disorderly, “but I had a shmoke out of a neighbor’s pipe, and that leaned upon me.”l A Boston firm advertises “shoes for elopements. ’ ’ They novel 1 squeak.