Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1910 — Lord Beresford’s Wit. [ARTICLE]

Lord Beresford’s Wit.

The Emerald Isle la fond of Charlie Beresford and Charlla Is proud of his native land and countrymen. “Irishmen may have their faults,” he says, “but give me an Irishman—the best fellow that ever was. Could anybody tell more f stories than the Irish?” One of the best stories he ever heard was about a fellow who was very fond of shooting. He said: “The first bird I ever shot wasa squirrel, and the first time I hit him 1 missed him altogether, and the next time 1 hit him I hit him in the same place, and after that I took a stone and dropped him from the tree, and he fell into the water and was shot, and that was the first bird I ever shot.” And the Lord Charles is never tired of quoting the story of the Irish member of the house of commons who compared a certain whisky to a "torchlight procession 7 trickling down his throat.”—Tit-Bits.