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Show WENT AWAY WITH THE BOOTY Elderly Irish Lady Proved $ht Wat Quit Capable of Rising to thj Occiilon, Lord Spencer, when viceroy of Ireland, Ire-land, UM'd to keep open houae, and all ladles and gentlemen who had attend ed drawliigrooina or levera Had an unwritten un-written right to attend the, rU. Patrick's Pat-rick's duy bull. Soiuh very que.r j pie lined to present thenmulves. Not contented with ruling and drinking drink-ing all they could, many pcrsojs used to make predatory raid" on the tables and carry off ratable of all sorts. On one ocraalon the comptroller aaw a stout, elderly lady take a whole fowl and stuff It with ctinslderable deftness Into a aomewhut capacious silk and embroidered bug. He at once went up to her and. iKtlntiug with hla finger at the bug, aald: "Madam, won't you take iodic ham with thatr Th) pood lady was not in the leuat abashed, but replied: "Ah. captain, aure U'a a Joker, you are," and atuck to her booty. Krom Sir Alfred Turner"! Autobiography. |
