17 DECEMBER 1898, Page 16

A "BULL" INDEED.

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THN "SFNCTATOR."]

SIR,—Your correspondent "S. G.," in the Spectator for December 3rd, suggests the subjoined "bull" as the subject for an epigram. Is the enclosed attempt worth a place in your columns? "A. Was Michael Flaherty your grandfather? B. He was, Sir, till a bull killed him" "Idem Latino redditum.

'Nonne tuos olim Cornuti nomen habebaa,'

Causidicus testi dixerat, inter avos' ?

Cui juvenis, nam mire loqui se assuevit Hibernus, 'Donee eum tauri cornua sustulerant' Infelix ! quoties tollunt to eornua! taurnm Fallere nec vivi, nec morientis erat."

am, Sir, &c., C. STANWELL.

Ipsden Vicarage, December 12th.