The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-04
TRUE IRISH BULLS.
They Have a Flavor All Their
Own, "the Effect of Climate"
BRANDS FROM OTHER LANDS.
The Best Of the French Bulls Are
Acted, Not Spoken-Some Droll Ex-
ampIes Of the italian, Portuguese,
Dutch and German.

countrymen made bulls: otis the eff
feet of the climate, sir. If an English
man were born in Ireland he would
make as many" said he. 1t is not ev
cry one who knows u bull when he
sees her, 1t may be no bull, but
merely u blunder "a betise, as the
French have it, To make sure that
we have the true criterion let US first
set down few of the genuine, ortho-
dox Irish kind: /
He built the wall wider than it was |
high, so that when it fell down 1t
should he higher than it was wide.
Two weary and footsore Irishmen
come to q milestone, ten miles to Dub
LIN. "Arrah," says one, "'tis but fve |
miles apiece"
Disputing Of the date of St. Patrick's
birthday, HE couldn't have had two
unless he was twins"
| An Irish sailor reported that in Phil.
adelphia they copper bottomed the tops
Of the houses with sheet lead.
Give me the loan of a Ratchet to saw
an empty barrel of -four in two to
make the dog a pigpen.
His estate is divided by impenetra-
BILE furze bitches made of quarried
stones set on edge.
An Irishman, describing a glorious
fight, said, "There was only one whole
nose in the house, and that was the
taypot's."
In these and in hundreds like them
we have the true flavor of the Irish
bull.
There are genuine bulls in French,
but they are rare. The genius of the
language does not lend itself to any
thing less than neat precision. a
French bull is usually nothing more
than a betisc. Still, French bulls exist
Leon, Bishop and Count of Iisieux
wrote to the Duchess of Brissac as fol
lows:
Madame, knowing how fond you
are of red cartridges, l send you here
with half dozen. Three of them are
gray, and one is q woodcock. You will
find this letter in the bottom of the
basket"
A Frenchman used q large stone jar
for pillow, explaining that it was not
hard because he had stuffed it full of
hay.
The very best French bulls are acted
not spoken. The Duke de ST. Simon
relates that lady, lying i'll, was much
disturbed by the ringing of the church
bells. To deaden the noise her lover
had the street in front of her house
laid with straw.
A spoken bull In French is apt to bt
something different from the Irish va
riety, something more like betise, a;
| has been said. And it is difficult t
retain the flavor in translation. "Ct
sont toujours les memes soldats qui 81
font tuer," says Marshal Bugeaud oil
his army. This loses little when ont
translates. at is always the same sol
diers who get themselves killed"
"En fat dinutilites il ne fault que /,
necessaire" is more highly colored il
the French than in its translation
"Only so many useless things are re
quired as are strictly necessary"
Here is tho translation of part of al
Italian letter:
1--WE have had IA most famous earth
| quake If by the mercy of God it hat
| lasted for another half hour we SHOULD
| all have gone to paradise, from whicl
| may God deliver us. Whether you re
! ceive this letter or not, please advis'
me in either case"
, Here is Portuguese bull. In offer
ing a reward for the recovery of TIL
| corpse of q drowned man his relative
remarked that the deceased might b
| identified, if found, by slight impedi
| ment in his speech.
| After much research it has been s.
| far impossible to discover a genuin
| Spanish bull, but here is a Dutch bull
| "The pig had no marks on his ear
| except a short tail"
| And here is German bull:
| "Der Zahn der Zeit der ale Thranel
| trocknet, wird auch uber desc Sach
| Gras wachsen lassen' c'The tooth o
| time, that wipes away all tears, viii
| permit grass to grow over this mat
| ter also'O.
| Blunders In English speech are no
| uncommon. The orthodox bull Of Ire
| land has scarcely crossed the channel
| A fellow of the Royal society speak
| OF 1.-THE earthquake that had had Tn
| honor to be noticed 10y the Royal Sc
] ciety."
1.-THE West Indies will now have
| future which they have never had 1
| the past" sounds promising until on
| sees that it's bullish quality is mer
| blunder by which the word "opportuni
| ty" was omitted There is none of tn
| flavor Of the famous definition of sal
| by the Irish schoolboy, salt Is tina
which makes your potatoes taste mast
II you don't put 1t in"
| Even the best of the foreign bulls 1
4 Latin tongues evoke the suspicion tina
they are mere TRANSACTIONS from Iris
originals. The Dutch, the German
and perhaps the English may have th
genuine article at times. No distinC
= lively American bulls. have emerge
from the long research that is tn