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Show TALES TOLD OF ULSTERMEN Bull Worthy of Any One From the County of Cork "Canny" About Marriage Fees. The Ulsterman is not incapable of a bull, says the British Weekly. It was an Ulster marquis who endeared himself to his tenantry by the memorable memor-able bull uttered in his speech. at an agricultural dinner: "I wish my farmers farm-ers would use iron plow's, because they last forever, and will afterwards sell as- old- iron." It was an Ulsterman who at a funeral observed the awkward work of an unaccustomed hand, and exclaimed ex-claimed as he seized a shovel: "I wasn't sever, years courting a sexton's sex-ton's daughter without learning to sod a gTave." Xo matter how large the bride's fortune, for-tune, the Ulsterman generally grumbled grum-bled over the marriage fee. "Wouldn't half a crown timpt ye?" asked a bridegroom of the officiating minister when the clerk demanded the usual five shillings. |