Show REALLY FLOWERS OF SPEECH sayings witty and wise that are worth being preserved in an anthology professor sir arthur quiller couch in the course of his lively lectures on the art of reading Itea ding gives some examples of irish peasants sayings with the large simplicity the he cadence the accent of scriptural speech the best Is the benediction bestowed in upon poll one of the two authors of the incomparable irish it II bf by an old woman in skibbereen ereen sure yere always laug laughing hingl I 1 that ye may laugh in the sight right of the glory of heaven the writer once thought of making an anthology of such wild flowers of wayside speech lie he would have included in it some far traveled sayings such as that of the freighter in the alkaline districts of alberta who said pointing with his whip to an intensely blue lake on the horizon bitter as a dying mans sweat Is that same water and the perfect definition of a ghost implied in the words of a newfoundland fisherman there I 1 sees em war warming ming themselves in the moonlight |