Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — Not Exactly the Words. [ARTICLE]

Not Exactly the Words.

Irish orators frequently discount their own rhetoric through an imperfect appreciation of word values. A Home Ruler was haranguing on English terrorism, and after drawing a picture of babies speared on the points of bayonets, etc., he concluded: “If that's your civilization you may keep it. I call it most improper.” This recalls the story of the Westerner who, having been absent from home for a day, returned to find his bouse and family swept away by a cyclone. Looking around him in amazement he exelaimejJ, “Well, I call this redic'lous!” The poor fellow" had used what he considered the strongest word in his vocabulary.