IRISH AND OTHER BULLS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 199, 11 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

IRISH AND OTHER BULLS.

. Under the title, r> The Bull Ring it Westminster," Sir Henry Lucy contrib. utes to " Printers' Pie" some specimens of the quaint things he has heard and heard of. O'Connor Power in the early seventies, was guMty of this: —"Since the Government have let the cat out of the< bag there is nothing to be done but take the buTI by the horns." Mr. Sptrrgeon once told Sir Henry that for bulN < andidates for the ministry could match politVanv He quoted from letters he had himse'f received:— •' Let us gird up the loins of our mind that we may rece've the latter rain." •'I hope the widow's mite (a smal' boy in an orphanage) may root and spread its branches until it lxecomes a Hercules : n your hands." "We thank Thee for th's spark of grace; water it, Lord." It was in connection with an industrial difficulty, says Sir Henry, that an lion, member fresh from the City ipported to an entranced House of Commons hcr-v, at a meeting of sharehold:!-, one attempted to throw a bombshell at the board. "But," he triumphantly added, "the chairman knocked it into a cocked hat long before it was brought forward.'' The pnze for pre-eminence in "bulling" Sir Henry will not award, but giv>s high p'ace in the competition to Sir William Hart-Dyke for remarking. "I confess my r'ght hon. friend has gone to the top of the tree and caugh . a rerv lirge fish."'