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Show REALLY FLOWERS OF SPEECH Sayings, Witty and Wise, That Ars Worth Being Preserved in . an Anthology. Professor Sir Arthur Qulller-Coueh, 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, (he accent of Scriptural speech. The best is the benediction bestowed upon one of the two authors of the incomparable incom-parable "Irish It. M." by an old woman wom-an in Slcibbereen: "Sure ye' re always laughing! That ye may laugh In the sight of the Glory of Heaven !" The . writer once (bought of making On anthology an-thology of such wild flowers of wayside way-side speech. He would have included In it some far-traveled sayings, such as that (Tf the freighter in Ihe alkaline districts of Alberta, who said, pointing point-ing with his whip to an intensely blue lake on the horfzon, "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." |