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Show KISSED THE BLARNEY STONE. Much has been said on the mystery of the blarney stone. Provincial news (says the Irish Independent) In-dependent) shows that Blarney is having hav-ing a successful season. The wide world over, no stranger local custom exists than that of kissing the stone. That stone, mind, has neither history nor legend. It just found itself in a high place one day with the figure& "1703" inscribed on it. The date conveys con-veys naught. No Blarney celebrity of that period seems to have had any-special any-special prowess in the domain of palaver, pa-laver, flattery, wheedling eloquence. How and why people began straining and risking their necks is a first-class first-class mystery. That they are kissing' the flint for nothing is undeniable. The figures are obliterated. It has shrunk in size, The lip-service of the great has enhanced its renown. Sir Walter Scott reverently kissed it, and doubtless wrote with a more reckless facility than before if smch were possible. |