Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-20

richest one we ever heard was about poor
Irish peasant who was laundering through
bog on small ragged pony. In its efforts
to push on, the animal got one of its feet
entangled IN the stirrup: ''Arrah, my boy"
exclaimed the rider, " if yom are going to
get up, it's time for me to get down"
A good one is related also of poor Irish
servant-maid who was left handed. Placing
the knives and forks upon the dinner-table
in the same awkward fashion, her master
observed that she had placed them all left
handed. 'sAh, true indeed, SIR" said she,
sand so have Would you be pleased to
help me to turn the table 2"
|. A very good one occur. ed in our hearing
one evening last winter. An old Irish gem
tleman, fifty years in 'bonds" of holy
wedlock, was telling over to his girls the
flirtations. sab p exclaimed his daughter
Mary, lit is well for you mamma is asleep
on the sofa and does not hear you p eyes, !,
said the old lady wide awake, as it proved,
and speaking up in the style of s. Tragedy
rebuking Comedy"), g g I am glad. I an
asleep" . ss5 Is s.i. As afa-a
q Amongst mere plumbers, we believe we
have met with no richer specimen than this
one, perpetrated by a. bell ringer in Cork
80 y5s !. 0 yis! Lost somewhere between
twelve o'clock and McKinney's store in
Marketgstreet, large brass key. I'll not
be after tellin' gees what it is, but it IS the
key of the bank, sure
An English merchant gives us the follows
ing: On opening hogshead Of hardware,
and comparing it with the invoice, he found
it all right, with the exception Of ore ham
mer, which had been omitted. 80, don't
be uneasy, my dear sir,n cried the Irish
porter; " sure the man took it out to open
the hogeheaa." rg
We;shalI give just one more rich speci-
men Of Irish obliquity and laundering
phraseology, and then shall have done 1t
is Contained in an electioneering ill, liter
ally and truly furnished by an inn keeper,
| for the, regalipg Of certain free and indie
I pendent ~ voters during the time of con-
tested election in Meath. Some forty years
ago, Sir Marx Somerville sent OF ders to the
proprietor of the hotel in Trim, to board
/ and lodge all who should vote for him. For
this he afterwards received the following,
which he got framed, and it still hangs in
Somerville House, County Meath. The
copy to which we are indebted for this was
found among the papers. of the late Very
Reverend Archdeacon O'Connell, Vicar
General of the diocese of Meath. 1t ran as
follows
10th April, 1926.
My Bill ~ NI1
To eating 16 freeholders above stairs for
Sir Marks at IS Sd ahead is to me e2 u.
To eating 16 more below stairs and 2
priests after supper is to me 5e2 15s Cd.
~ Te 6 beds in one room and in a mother
at 2 guineas every bed, and not more than
four in any bed at any time cheap enough
God knows is to me &22 15s.
To Is horses and mules about nv ward
all night at 1Ss every one of them and for
man which was lost on the head of watch
ing them all night is td, me e5 5s Cd.
For breakfast on tay in the morning for
every one of them and as many more as they
brought as near as can guess is to me "a
rs Cd.
To raw whisky and punch without talking
| of pipes tobacco as well as for porter and
as well as for breaking q pot above stairs
and other glasies and delf for the first day
and night | am not sure but for the three
days and half Of the election as little as
can call it and to be very exact it is in all
or therelabouts as near as | can guess and
not to be too particular is to me at least ELS
los Cd.
For shaving and trapping off the heads OF
the 40 freeholders for Ser Marks at 13d for
every head of them by my brother had a
Vote is to me G2 l3s Id.
For WON'T and nurse for poor Tom Ker-
nan in the middle of the night when he was
not expected is to me ten hogs.
don't talk of the piper Or for keeping
| him sober as long as he was sober as to me
go.