The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-12-24

he gave the girl the mitten.
She pined apace, her pretty face.
looked slender and detected, her ia
ther kind, but somewhat blind, be.
held her and reflected.
His income tax he spent for wax
she smiled and called him clever.
She went 10 work, forgot the clerk,
and chewed in bliss forever.
Sir Boyle ROche's Famous Letter.
From Chambers journal.
The most notorious bull perpetra-
tor was Sir Boyle Roche who was
elected member for Tralee in 1775.
He had regular laundering reputa-
ton. He was known upon one occa-
sion, after a whitening exposure, or
patriotic denunciation OF Govern.
ment, to say with solemn gravity:
'Mr. Speaker, 1t is the duty OF
every true lover of his country to
give his last guinea to save the re-
mainder of his fortune " Or if the
subject of debate was some national
calamity he would deliver himself
thus:
Single misfortunes never come
alone, and the greatest of all national
calamitles Is generally followed by
one much greater"
Sir Boyle Roche belonged to the
ancient family of De La Russo of
FermoY. He was created a baronet
in 1882 and was married to the ED.
est daughter of Sir James Caldwell,
but had no heir. He used to account
for his lack of progeny by saying
"that it was hereditary in his family
to have no children" Another of
his blunders was made when speak
ing of the fish hawkers. "They 90
down to Ringsend," he observed, buy
the herings for half nothing and
then cell them for twice as much"
A letter supposed to have beer
written by Sir Boyle Roche during the
Irish rebellion Of 1913, gives an anus
ing collection OF his various blunders.
Perhaps he never put SO many on
paper at time, but his peculiar turn
for bulls is here shown at one view.
The letter was first printed in the
Kerry Magazine now, out of print.
HDeGr SIR Having now a little
s41vaSss ietk Z - - a
you of the bus}le and confusion we
are in from the blood thirsty rebels,
many of whom are now, thank God,
killed and dispersed. We are in
pretty mess, can get nothing to eat,
and no wine to drink except whisky.
When we sit down to dinner we are
obliged to keep both hands armed.
Whilst write this letter / have my
sword in one hand and my pistol in
the other. l concluded, from the
the beginning, that this would be the
end and ] am right for it is not halt
over yet. u
At present there are such goings
on that everything is at stand-still.
should have answered your letter
fortnight ago, but / only received it
this morning, indeed, hardly a mail
arrives safe without being robbed.
No longer ago than yesterday the
mail coach from Dublin was robbed,
near this town. The bags had been
judiciously left behind for fear of &C.
cidents and by great good luck there
was nobody robbed ia the coach ex.
cept two outside passengers who had
nothing for the thieves to take. Last
Thursday an alarm vas given that a
gang OF rebels in nll retreat from
Drogheda were Advancing under the
French standard bit they had no
colors nor any drums except bag
pipes.
Immediately evey man in the
place, including women and children,
ran out to meet ITEM. We soon
found our force a graf deal too little,
and were far too nea to think of re.
treating. Death wa in every face
and to it we went. BY the time half
OF our party was killed we began to
be all alive. Fortunately the rebels
had no guns, except listols, cutlasses,
and pixies, and we had plenty of
muskets and amuniion. We put
them all to the swod,-not a soul
of them escaped e&eps some that
We're drowned in a adjoining bog
In fact, in short tine nothing was
heard but silence. The uniforms
were all different,--chie green.
After the action wasover we went
to rummage their amp. All we
found was few pikS without heads,
a parcel OF empty bottles filed with |
water, and bundle 4 blank, French |
commissions filled up with Irish |
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