IRISH LOBSTERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 889, 5 March 1878, Page 2

IRISH LOBSTERS.

O.ve of our restraunta boasts of an ii-.sh Munchausen who -acts in the humble capacity of waiter, and adds much to the entertain in nt of g-ie-os. ne of them being served with a small lobster, asked : • D> >ou can that a lobster ?' 'Faix, I believe they do be calling thi.n lobsters here, euir. We cill 'em lobser.s ai home.' 'Oh,' said the <iiuer, 'you have lo Btei-8 i.-i Ireland?' j •Is it lobsters! Batons the! creeks is full of 'em. Many a time have I seen 'em when I've lepped or§r tlit sutiauit*,* j

' Mow large do the lobsters grow in Ireland ?' ' Well,' said Mike, thoughtfully, to sphake widin bounds, surr, I'd say a matter of six *£et£. 4 What ! five or six|eet; how do they get around in those creeks V 1 Bedad, snrr, the Greeks in Ireland are fifty or sixty feet wide/ said the unabashed Mike. ' But/ said the persistent inquirer, you said yba ,had seen them when you were leaping over the streams, and lobsters here live in the sea/ 4 Deed I did, surr ; we're powerful leppera in Ireland. As tor the say, I ve seen it red with 'em. 'But look.here, my fine fellow/ said the guest,, thinking he had cornered the Hioernian at last, * lobsters are not red until tlm are boiled.' J 1 Doan't I kuow that ?' said Mike, reproae' fully ; < but theie are bilin' .springs iu the ould eoun&ary, an* they shwim troo 'em, mi' come out ready far ye to crack open and ate/ (»ncf Mike walked calmly off to waitf* upon the next gues-, leaving his mterlocutor to digest' the lobster, and the story.