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Show i. MINBTHnLS' HUMOR. Mltly Anarr of sn IrUhman Mini ".Netrr Ariunl wllli a l.l." Tho minstrel of Ireland nro not nil gnno from tho highway and bywaya of Itrln, says an exchange. The mournful mourn-ful harp and plalntlvo pipe may have given way to the brcciy banjo and crooning violin, hut the tongs which these accompany nro the songs of Iro-Ub,lLBtm,M1Uowntbv Iro-Ub,lLBtm,M1Uowntbv lh,ruun Clad-dflx.li Clad-dflx.li wliarvc of old (lalway tJwn I came upon a rapt audience, says a well known tratelcr, enthralled by tha dulcet note of Tlm llrcnnan, the "wandering "wan-dering minstrel of Tlppcrary" one of tha sweetest Ingcra I ever heard and ono who would hato been great were It not fur his lovo ot "tho cinder In It," at lhy aptly term the west of Ireland mountain dew. I had teen Tlm many times before In Ireland. Our tramplnga had brought its Into tho Mine relation ot artist and rcpomlvo auditor so many timet that at ho tipped me a comforting wink ot recognition recog-nition I noticed that hit violin had been replaced by the temporary.though ample musical makeshift ot a banjo wrought from the head of an ancient Irish churn. In the panic following hi ballad I tslt emboldened to toot him back hla wink, with the query: "And, Tlm, why didn't you bring the churn with It head!" "Kaltli yer honor," hon-or," he replied, In n flntli and with n wlniomo amllo, holding tha churn-head churn-head banjo aloft to all could ice, '"faith I never argue wld a lady an', ycr honor, a bould Irlili woaman atud at It other Indl" |