Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1915 — SOME NOTED IRISH “BULLS" [ARTICLE]

SOME NOTED IRISH “BULLS"

Sayings That Have Been Fastened, Rightly or Wrongly, Upon Sons of the Emerald Isle. The Irishman who said to his children: “Ye pays no more attention to me than if I was a dumb baste talking to yez!” was as unconscious of saying anything funny as the Irish baronet who boasted that It was “hereditary in his family to have no children;” and the domestic who complained: “Enjoy slape, is it? How could I, now? The minit I ley down I’m aslape, and the minit I’m aslape I have to get up. Where’s the time for enjoying it?” . But we are not so sure of the man who, when asked by his employer: "WeH, Patrick, which Is the tool —you or I?” answered: “Faith, I couldn’t say, sorr; but it’s not moself;” or of the groom who, to the question: “You say your present master treats you better than Mr. Smith did?” replied: “Yes, sorr—and oftener.”. It was Sir Bryan O’Loghlan who was responsible for the startling statement that “a verbal agreement is not worth the paper it is written on; and the immortal Sir Boyle Roche who, In a debate on a proposed tax on leather, declared “the barefooted peasantry of Ireland” could avoid the tax by "having their under-leathers made of wood;” and who, when discussing the relations between England and Ireland, said: “Hs Is an enemy to both kingdoms who wishes to diminish the brotherly affection of the two sister kingdoms."