The sun., 1908-12-06


genuine Iflsk sberimen ! bflsg c.s
pnflson vllI nuke this clear.
TO begin with inQdsEll fhgllaR ex-
afnpies, taken from th5 'IilBt two weeks
crop in John Bull: N
THE supplies Of fallen fruit have been 90 large
that much of n has hardly paid tor the pieklns'
London Daily Chroniils.
The witpess ldsnunsd the body % that OF the
deceased. .---WssisrB AGn, .,t,.,
Many aver that the weather was theroughesS
ever experienced In eTossing, but that can hardly
be the case as the weather has occasionally pre-
vented crossing sltog ogether.-Wtste'nI Indspsndsnf'
The odds at the start were svens on BAaHr'
London Danv Mai.
Id one year Mr. HORACE BRIrBMEAp took The
fsatherweght, middlsweieht and hesyywegh'
championships in the National Rise Association
--LIoVd's Weekly.
The meeting waS attended BY the counting
house star OF Miss RICHARD GARsETT 4 sons,
LM-Ipspteb EptHfng Star,
"FIKLpENs sausaees. Made for nearly forty
years. Now ready. -Aeerington ooserrtr
Some older English instances, set
beside these, will not be found essen
TALLY -dissimilsr, MILTON gives the
oollocation, universal particular as
typical bull. A writer in 1910;
Dumbe speaker-that's a bull! ]
would had seen thee rorer That's
a bull, too, as clever as you are
Pore in his Essay on Criticism said
about wit, when wanted, soorn'd.
DENNIS asked, How can that be soorned
which is not2' and Pope meekly con-
fessed himself guilty Of that which
the English call bull b.
To proceed to the French, The
dramatist SCRIBE. much reputed for
his bullish aptitudes, wrote these:
"D'avoir pu le tuer vivant
Je me glorhrai sans cesse."
"Un vieux soldat salt soufrir ct Sc taire
Sans murmurer."
One of his heroes asks for "a table
pen, paper, ink and everything else
necessary for writing
The novelist Vicomte PoNsoN DU
TERRAn made bulls so continually
that young journalists got living by
wading through the instalments of his
numerous serials and picking them up.
The Vicomte was not checked by these
exposures. Hestin went on making his
hero stride up and down the garden
reading a letter with his hands clasped
behind his back, never for an instant
unclenching his teeth or ceasing to
drink, and 80 on.
Allthese examples have weak mega
tive quality. They are due to lack OF
deliberation or care, to lack OF clear
thinking, to lack of proper punctua-
ton. Not one has any positive, virile
flavor. But now look at the Irish kind
at that typical comment, for instance
on the disputed date Of Sc. PATRICK's
birthday: He couldn't have had two
birthdays unless he was twins.
1t needs something far beyond hasty
speech to explain this. The most bull
ish Englishman or Frenehman would
certainly have stopped half way in the
sentence after laying down the limits
of the possible, 'he couldn't have had
two birthdays.' The Irishman was nc
such @piker.' He recognized the limits
but with marvellous imaginative nerve
and conceptive vitality rose at the OBJ
stacle and actually tried to spring ovel
il with the forlorn but surely inspired
unless he was twins He failed oi
course; the point is that he could make
the attempt. Exactly the same quail
ties appear in another typical Irish bull
Sir BoYLE RocHE's Il couldn't have
been in two places at once, barTin'
was bird What worlds away from
the mere negative oversights Of th'
French and Englishi If more ecnven
tional proof-it could not be NOR,
convincing the brilliancy OF Si
BoYLE's wit is desired, take his re
tort to CURRAN. The latter having
asserted that he could and would tax,
care of his own honor, Il thought, . OBJ
served Sir BOYLE, @the honorable mem
ber was opposed to sinecures