"BULLS."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—We also in Italy produce a fine breed of "bulls.' Here is an example. My servant was sent the other day to bespeak an early cab for the next morning, and to insist on punctuality. He came back well satisfied with himself. "I told Angelo," he said, "to be at the house punctually at a. quarter before seven; and if he was not punctual, he must be there at half-past six."—I am, Sir, Sic.,
Fiesole, May 16th. HERBERT H. GRArriiEsozr.
[To THE EDITOR OF vu "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Calling on a parishioner yesterday, and wishing to lead her thoughts away from her aches and pains, I asked her, "And what is your age, S--- F" Her answer revealed a state of mind quite Hibernian. "Well, Sir, I used to sleep with my grandmother's mother, so I must be main old."—I am, Sir, &c., WIS. G. SPIIERELL. Cosheston Rectory, Pembroke, May 12th.
[To THE EDITOR Or ERZ " SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—The following bovine specimen may also be acceptable to your readers. Some fifteen years ago I heard a dignitary of Cork Cathedral address the congregation in St. Mary's Church, Harrogate, in this wise. "If there be any of you here, dear brethren, whom God in his mercy has taken to himself." In the same discourse, pleading for some charity, our sense of generosity was sought to be stirred by the follow- ing sentence descriptive of the miseries of which Ireland was then the victim : "In the Sister Country where for some time we have been suffering from vivisection, is it to be wondered at if we have been a little disturbed while undergoing the
process P "—I am, Sir, &c., W. A.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Stn,—Might I suggest that the following be added to your remarkable collection of " bulls " ? A person, who evidently dislikes the name of William, and who is not an Irishman, but in my mind worthy to be one, said : "As long as Jam alive,
I shall never give the name of William to one of my sons."— I am, Sir, &c., S. S. S.
[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " Brrawron."] Sin,—The following may serve as an illustration that the "Irish bull" sometimes strays to this side of the Channel. Lately we engaged a French maid. One of her fellow- servants, an Englishwoman, said to her : "How could you /earn French without knowing English? "—I am, Sir, &c., Adisham Rectory, Dover, May 13th. J. H. Cann.
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