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Show REALLY FLOWERS OF SPEECH Sayings, Witty and Wise, That Ars Worth Being Preserved in an Anthology. Professor Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, in the course of his lively lectures "On the Art of Reading," gives some examples of Irish peasants' sayings with the large simplicity, the cadence, the accent of Scriptural speech. The best is the benediction bestowed upon one of the two authors of the incomparable incom-parable "Irish R. M." hy an old woman wom-an in Skihhereeh : "Sure ye're always laughing: That ye may laugh In the sight of the Glory of Heaven!" The writer once thought of making an anthology an-thology of such wild flowers of wayside way-side speech. He would have included la it some far-traveled sayings, such as that of the freighter in the alkaline districts of Alberta, who said, pointing point-ing with his whip to an intensely blue lake on the horizon, "Bitter as a dying dy-ing man's sweat is that same water," and the perfect definition of a ghost implied in the words of a Newfoundland Newfound-land fisherman, "There I sees 'em warming themselves in the moonlight." |