A "Woman about Woman.— The famous wit and beauty, Lady Wortley Montague, made the most sarcastic observation ever published about her own. sex. "It goes far," she said, "to reconcile me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one." How thoroughly impossible is it to reproduce in print the effects of a first-
rate story-teller. Manner is everything; and voice, specially where a Highland or any other special dialect is rendered. Who could worthily set forth the pathetic adventure of him who, entering a little inn among the heather, found three Highlanders sitting over their toddy with manifest enjoyment, and heard their discourse thereon ? A true Gaelic-speaking Celt generally fails in reaching the English idiom. One said, putting aside his tumbler, with great emphasis and solemnity: This is the best whisky that I never tasted any more. The second observed: So did I neither.
The third subjoined Neither did I too.
[For remainder of news see 4sth page.']
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1236, 11 December 1874, Page 2
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168Untitled Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1236, 11 December 1874, Page 2
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