A Good Story.
The recent story about the Fenians sending clothes to the English friends of high degree now turns out to'be'a shameless host played by Mr O'Rafferty, of Dublin, on the Premier -and several other. utihigk Government officials. Mr OR . sent . .little ., notes, worded somewhat as iq\]qir% to Mr Gladstone and others :-— ' ** [Private and . confidential.]' Dear Sir, - X^The" clean underclothing winch you : put on last Sunday morning were alt : -infected^ With malignant small-pox. : Your. washer-woman « a rank Fenian.. j Take them off at once is the advice of j IA Friend." Mr Gladstone immediately I rushed upstairs,. took a hot bath, 15 grains ••; 6i blue mass, sent for all the family physicians, and had Mrs Gladstone and ali the household Vaccinated. The other J Government officials took similar pre- I cautions, and were equally frightened, j with the exception of the Prince of ' . Wales, who, when his secretary rushed to him with O'Rafferty's missive merely smiled, shut one eye, and remarked — "Too thin! They can't play me. I haven't chaaged my .underclothes for three weeks 1"
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 20, 24 July 1883, Page 3
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177A Good Story. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 20, 24 July 1883, Page 3
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