The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-02
TRUE IRISH BULLS.
They Have a Pungent Flavor Pc
culiar to the Green Isle.
BLUNDERs LINKED WITH WIT.

All Nations Mix Metaphors and Per.
pstrats Sch Contradictory Figures
Of speech, but the Emerald Brand
Holds the Prize For Point and vieor.
In Bulls. Ancient and Modern J.
G. Percy. the author. contrasts the
English and Irish variety to the ad
| vantage Of the latter. Although the
most diverting bulls are usually "a
thered upon irishmen. they have not
By any means q monopoly. All nations
| mix metaphor. and tall into self. CON
Trajectory blunders- Engiishmen make
bulls probably just a. often ~ Irish
men. but there h q difference. The
English ones are seldom amusing.
The Irish ones almost always are.
| Mr.. Gladstone never limited at Irish
blood In his veins. yet he once warned
| an NJ p. that II was no use for him
i own words" Mr.. Ralfour has spoken
Of IAN empty theater Of unsympathet
ic auditors" Lord Randolph Churchill
referred to an item of national credit
as "a mere flea bite In the ocean of
our expenditure" II further proof be
called for It was a Yorkshireman who
told meeting Of shareholders In some
place Of entertainment at Leeds that
they had been catering for class
which does not exist and which now
goes to Bradford" 1t was an English
chairman of a railway company who
said lit would pay better 70 carry
third class passengers for nothing
rather than let the tramways get
them"
Why Is 1t, then. that bulls are snp
posed to be native TO Irelandf II can
! hardly be for the reason that they are
supposed TO take their name from p
certain Obad Bull an Irish harris
ter. who practiced in London during
the eighteenth century. Mr.. Percy &C
cepts this derivation. though there is
another which relates the name with
the traditional remark of the timid
woman who was afraid to cross
field full of cows In case one OF them
might be bull" That has the favor
of the true Irish bull 1t Is pungent-
sharp to the point. The meaning
flashes out quick and clear Other
bulls result from a lack of oil in the
headworks- Irish bulls are really due
to mental Quickness. which takes o
short cut rather than the high road
and relies upon the hearers TO show
equal agility. That is why they leave
an impression. while the bulls OF other
nations pass unnoticed or fade directly
from the mind
Here. for example. is a delightful
ellipse- One woman. describing anoth-
er. said: "She would talk the head of
you | am hoarse listening. to her"
Most Of Us have felt that. but it need
ed real wit to phrase it so aptly. Quite
as funny. though less witty, was the
advice given to cyclists In an irish
paper. The best way to pass a COW on
the road when cycling is to keep be
q hind it" One is reminded of the man
n who said there was only one way 70
make donkey follow yOu-that was
s. to so behind and push. The same writ
8 er on cycling once selected "a shady
g nook and basked there in the sun
81 shine" 1t was he. too. who described
8 some one as having received "a grand
q reception when he went away"
Il In irish political speeches butts
q abound The speakers are carried
s away by their subjects and their eio
8 quence, Images leap to their lips anC
81 are uttered before their incongruity
& has been noticed Why" asked Si
q Thomas Myies in Dublin during tht
Boer war-"why shonld Irishmen Stanl
B with their arms folded and their hand.
b in their pockets when England call:
g for aid?'' Lord Russell of kiloweI
q was denouncing a coercion bill in lSSj
and its interference with free speec
If this measure Is passed" he declar
E ed. mo man in Ireland will be able [,
s. speak on politics unless he is born dea
and dumb" Mr.. O'Shea, NJ. F.. drew
b piteous picture of the desolation OF
farm in Ireland is it not fact" b,
asked. that the only living animai
on this farm are the seagulls which d,
over itY'
In every one OF these cases the Dull
far from being a source OF confusion
adds immensely to the effect of the at
gument There are bulls. however
even in Ireland. which are born O
sheer muddleheadedneSs Such wa
the remark OF the Dublin uniyers1t,
freshman who was dared to "lepp"
broad and muddy ditch In Colleg
park Sure" he said, If l jumpe
across that would fall In the middl
before l got halfway" That was vel
bal carelessness Il was somethin
more than this-it was inability t
= think ciearly-which made an old lad
say one Sunday when the porch wa
inconveniently crowded after churct
III everybody else would do as |
and stay quietly In their seats till eE
cry one had gone out there would D
no crush at the door,"
In between these comes q class G
bull which is neither Illuminating no
q confusing, but which arises from
3 constitutional hlunmess OF .ntellec
To this class 5elongs the reply OF
& servant TO her mistress question. "Wh
x-sS 1huk as fha front Inor21 <zar