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Show 1 . TALES TOLD OF ULSTERMEN M ' B" Worthy of Any Ono From the jM County of Cork -"Canny" About M j Marrlago Fees. ' Tho Ulstormnn Is not lncapnblo ol f . a bull, says tho British Weekly. It H was an Ulster murqulB who endeared Ja , . himself to his tenantry by tho momor- M 1 able bull uttered in his speech at an if 1 agricultural dinner: "I wish my farm- gl ors would uso Iron plows, because w ' they last forever, and will afterwards "ffl sell as old iron." rfj It was an Ulstorinan who at a W funeral observed tho awkward work M of au unaccustomed hand, and ox- s claimed as he solzod a shovel: "I J& wasn't soven years courting a sex- U ton's daughter without learning to ft sod a gruvo." .ja No matter how largo tho bride's for H tune, tho Ulsterman gonerally grunv bled over tho marrlago fee. fa "Wouldn't half a crown tlmpt yo?" asked a bridegroom of tho officiating ,y mlnlstor when tho clerk demanded the v usual flvo flhillings. |