Show laughable mixed metaphors among amono n historic bulls that have added to the gayety of nations those of sir boyle roche are probably best remembered for some curious and cov ered reason a ridiculous cont contra lie tion in terms customarily Is calle I 1 an irish bull the phrase lon ion ago pissed into literature and has constant repetition yet the fact of the matter is that the people of erin are no more addicted to such mis takes than other races indeed crit les repeatedly have noticed that the average irishman Is a good deal of an artist in his management of lan ian guage and it his been said thit no where else in europe is it possible ti 11 find a more vigorous or picturesque folk foll speech than in the I 1 merald isle where the influence of the poetry of gaelic still survives es but no one will care to deny that some of the best bulls current in times have been of irish origin there is the class c about the two gentlemen who fancying that they were acquainted crossed the street to shake hands on d s covering their error one cried I 1 beg your pardon and the other re marked oh don t mention it its it s a cutuil mistake you see I 1 thought it wis you and you thought it wis was me and really it mas as neither of us and a second Is cited concerning two men who were vere d sc the ill III ness of a friend oh he hes S got so thin declared the one and the oth er rejoined faith he has I 1 in thin and you re thin but he s thinner than both of us put together anecdotes of the mixed metaphors of sir boyle poche member of the irish parliament are legion in num ber mr spent er he declared on one occasion it Is the duty of ev ery true lo lover loer er of his country to give his last guinea to save the remainder of his fortunes again he said that S agle misfortunes never come alone and the greatest of na tures ture s calamities is generally fol lowed by one much greater to him also is attributed the gem why should we do anything for posterity what has posterity ever done for us but sir boyle s unparalleled genius reached its apex in his denunciation of the french jacobins I 1 mr speaker if v e once permitted the villainous french to meddle with the buttresses and walls of our an dent clent constitution they would never stop nor stay sir until they brought the foundation stones tumbling down upon the ears of the nat on if those villains should invade us on that table maybe those hon bon arable members might see their own destinies lying in heaps atop of one another here perhaps sir the in mur ur derous crew would break breal in and c cut ut us to pieces and throw our bleeding heads upon that table to stare us in the face however the irish statesman was not the fool he sometimes pretended to be he ile used his skill to ridicule politics of which he disapproved and it was an abundantly efficient device for that purpose but the unnamed birmingham law yer had no such strategic objective in mind when he uttered d the famous appeal to the jury which began gentlemen it will be for you to decide whether the defendant shall be allowed to come into court with un blushing footsteps with a cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth and draw three bullocks out of my clients pocket with impunity his ills perform ance demonstrated that the bull Is it nt an exclusively irish production and the scots too are not immune to the acal lent for it 13 19 recorded that a glasgow att adey once to his clerk instead 0 pledges bere ie re always bre ikin ved better mal male e no promises at all an keep the them language it would seem Is a ariely trici affair affair it should be handled 2 with care but it now and again a V really humorous error Is rna ma ie le it a i kiy help if it Is remembered that it i Is good to prompt innocent laughter in the world even unintentionally washington poet post |