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Show FOR AN UNSPOKEN APEECH. The Irish r.trlot Jailed if Words IIS Illiln'l Bay. A member of tha !,and lengua waa ent from Dublin to a certain district to get up a meeting and make a speech, auya the New York Journal. On reaching the town where the meeting meet-ing was to lie held the atieech-maker met a friend, and, both being genial fellows, they retired to a puhllo house and had something. Then Ihey began tulktng over old-time reminiscences, and tho first thing the laml-leuguer knew was that the attendunt bad como in to light the lamp. "llrcnt goodness!" he said, "I waa sent down from Dublin to get up a meeting here and now it is too late." "Oh, well. It doesn't mutter," aald tha other. "Yes. but It 'does matter." (aid lh organiser. "1 have lo report to my superior su-perior that the meeting waa held." "Oh, thut's all right," said hla friend. "Hero, you wrilo out a sjM-ecch and I will send It to the local papers, which will print It Just as If the meeting waa held. Then the people lit Dublin won't know the difference." This wus quickly done and the speech that waa never delivered aptieured neat duy lu the puiK-rs. The fun of the thing cornea In over the fact that the leaguer was arrested and was sentenced to four mouths In Jull for a speech that he never delivered, deliv-ered, at a meeting that was never held. |