13 AUGUST 1898, Page 17

" BULLS."

[To TES EDITOR or TEl "Srsorklos.9 SIR,—Your correspondent, "A. B. C.," is of opinion that the gift of making " bulls " is really something to be proud of. The following remark of a Highland clergyman shows that the Celts in Scotland can lay claim to the same faculty. In his sermon preached in a small church in Strathspey, after inveighing against slothfulness, he said in closing : "Do you think Adam and Eve went about the Garden of Eden with

their hands in their pockets P "—I am, Sir, &c., G. B. N.