A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
The present Archbishop of Dublin, the gitted author of the work so widely known, on the " Stuly of Words," is not in very robust health and has been for many years apprehensive of paralysis. At a recent dinner :in Dublin, given by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, his Grace sat on the right of his hostess, the Duchess of Abercorn. In the midst of the dinner the Company was startled'by seeing the Archbishop rise from his seat, and still more startled to hear him exclaim in a dismal and sepulchral tone, "It has come ! it has come! " , "/■'" What has come, your ; Grace?" eagerly cried half a dozen voices from different parts of the table. : " What I have been expecting for twenty years," .solemnly answered the Archbishop—"a stroke of paralysis.: ;I have been pinching .myself, for the last twenty minutes,:and find myself entirely without sensation."
" Pardon me, my dear Archbishop," said the Duchess, looking up to him with a somewhat quizzical smile, " pardon me for contradicting you, but it is I that you have been pinching."—Harper';s Magazine.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS18770621.2.20
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2637, 21 June 1877, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
178A SLIGHT MISTAKE. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2637, 21 June 1877, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in