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Show Hardly Complimentary. Doyle was breaking stones on the roadside beneath one of the high hills in South Kilkenny. Eating ths grass beside him was the ass that carried car-ried him to and from his work. The donkey was old, and, as Doyle would say, "as cute as himself." One day an English tourist cfianced to come the way, and the ass, seeing him approach, ap-proach, began to bray loud and long. The tourist, coming up to Doyle, asked: "Why does that old ass bray at seeing see-ing me?" "I don't know," said Doyle, "but there is an old sayin' in the place 'when friends meet hearts warm.'" |