SOME BULLS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1972, 7 January 1907, Page 1

SOME BULLS.

i A writer in the Cornliill Magazine * gives some delightful examples of , I mixed metaphors. Here is one: Sir Robert Purvis, adrossing his old constituents at Peterborough in defence of an act of Parliament under whose I operation some of them had gone tq I prison for a week, said‘That, I gentlemen, js the marrow of the Education Act, and it will not be taken I out by Dr. Clifford or anybody else. It is founded on a granite foundation and it speaks in a yoico not to bo drowned by sectarian clamor,’ We must go to Germany to boat that. In an address to the present Emperor’s father a ltlieinlander mayor I said, ‘No Austria, no Prusia, one I only Germany. Such were the words the mouth of your Imperial Majesty has always had in its eye.’ Mr Spurgeon was a keen collector ‘ of mixed metaphors, finding q'rieh field in thp correspondence that daily overwhelmed him. A lady enclosing a small contribution for his schools, wrote: —‘l hope this widow's mite may take root and spread its brandies until it becomes a Hercules in your hands.’ The pulpit prayers'of ambitious probationers added something to I the great preaojier’s store. One prayed that ‘God’s rod and staff niav be ours while (Orted oji the sea of lilo, so tljat >VO may fight the good light or faith, and in the end soar to rest. ‘We thank Thee for this spark of grace; water if, Lord,’ was the ] sententious, almost imperious, ontieaty of another promising young man. Still another prayed: ‘Gird up the loins of our minds, that we may £ receive the latter rain.’ ‘fa if we t were barrels whoso hoops were lose,’ was Mr. Spurgeon’s laughing comment. • °