Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — The Subtle Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Subtle Difference.

An earnest defender of things Irish asserts that the traditional bull of Ireland is not, as is commonly supposed, the expression of a blundering intelligence, but, on the contrary, shows the exquisite feeling of the Irish for fine sisades of meaning. The trouble lies in the ears that hear It. “If ye were to be killed crossing a fence ye’d be all right,” said a lookeron to a fox-hunter whose horse had turned head over heels in the middle of a level pasture. “But if ye were killed on the flat o’ th’ field ye’d never hold up your had again!”