Humour

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 49, 3 March 1894, Page 10

Humour

AN IRISH BULL. An Irish gentleman was entertained by a party of Englishmen at an hotel in a certain town in England, when the conversation turned on Irish hulls. The Irish gentleman being a little nettled, said—- “ Bulls ! bulls ! You can’t talk about an Irishman without speaking of a bull. You have as many bulls in England as we have. In England you can’t put up a public house without sticking up a bull. In the very street where we are sitting now there are six public houses with signs of bulls.” “Oh no,” said one of the gentlemen, “ not so many as that.” “But I tell you there are just so many.” “No we have counted them, and. we know thex-e ax*e not six.”

“ Well, I will wager the dinner for the company in the same place where we are sitting now, that there are six public houses with signs of bulls on them. There is the ‘ White Bull,' that’s one ; the ‘ Black Bull ’ is two the ‘Brown ’is three ; the ‘ Spotted Bull ’ is four ; the ‘ Pied Bull ’ is five.” “ Ah, that’s all ! “No, there’s another one.” “Ah, but we know better.” “ I tell you there is another one—■ ‘ Black, ’ ‘ White,’ ‘ Brown,’ ‘ Spotted,’ ‘ Pied,’ and there’s the ‘ Red Cow.” “ Ha, ha, that’s an Irish bull.”

“Very well if the ‘ Red Cow , is an Irish bull, that makes six, and I’ve won my wager.”—Selected