As Oeig-ihali Ahecdoxe. Lately an Irish recruit arrived at the depot. A common soldier seeing the raw fellow, exclaimed —‘ Well, Paddy, how do the haloes taste in Ireland ?’— ‘ Ah, jewel, (said the rscruit) as I can’t give you a taste oi the ’tatoe, here’s a taste of the stalk,’ and with his thorn stick knocked down the aoidier, to iuo great ainusosneut of tbs bystanders.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 460, 11 March 1867, Page 3
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65Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 460, 11 March 1867, Page 3
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