Gunnison Gazette | 1914-03-13 | Page 2 | Tales Told of Ulstermen

TALES TOLD OF ULSTERMEN Bull Worthy of Any One From the County of Cork "Canny" About Marriage Fees. The Ulsterman is not incapable of a bull, says the British Weekly. It was an Ulster marquis who endeared himself to his tenantry by the memorable memor-able bull uttered in his speech at an agricultural dinner: "I wish my farmers farm-ers would use iron plows, because they last forever, and will afterwards Bell as old iron." It was an Ulsterman who at a funeral observed the awkward work af an unaccustomed hand, and exclaimed ex-claimed as he seized a shovel: "1 wasn't seven years courting a sexton's sex-ton's daughter without learning to ' lod a grave." No matter how large the bride's fortune, for-tune, the Ulsterman generally grumbled grum-bled over the marriage fee. "Wouldn't half a crown timpt ye?" asked a bridegroom of the officiating minister when the clerk demanded the , usual five shillings.