Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — One on John Kernell. [ARTICLE]

One on John Kernell.

The late John'Kernell, the Irish comedian, liked iri' his prime to go back to Ireland, whence he would often bring material, gathered in alehouses and on jHre high roads, that afterward served him well in dialogue upon the stage. Kernell once said at a little supper party in Boston that he had met on a lummer day in Galway an Irishman driving a horse so thin that it staggered as it walked. “Why don’t you put more flesh on that nag?’’ Kernell exclaimed. Indignantly. “More, is it?” the Irishman answered. "Why, by the powers, don’t you see that the poor creature can hardly carry what little there is on him now?” —New York Tribune.