IRISH "BULLS."
rro TIM EDITOR OF TRZ " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The letter of "X. X. X." in the Spectator of April 30th brought to my mind the following :—Some five and forty years ago I was on intimate terms with Mr. Kronheim, the managing partner in the house of KrOnheina and Co., of Bangor House, Shoe Lane, large colour printers of labels for Irish linen manufacturers. I met this gentleman one morning
in Fleet Street with a more than usually mirthful expression on his ever-genial countenance, respecting which I asked for an explanation. He produced in reply a letter received from Belfast that morning by his firm, of which the following is as nearly as possible (barring the numbers) a correct copy :—
,,GENTLEIIEN,—We shall be obliged by your forwarding us the following linen labels immediately, as we are in urgent want of the same,—viz., No. 372, 500; No. 106, 1,000; No 295, 2,500; &c.
—Yours faithfully, B. AND Co.
"P.S.—Since writing the above our storekeeper has come in, and we find that we have all the above in stock. You need not, therefore, send them."
—I am, Sir, &o.,
Godalming. A. D. AL [To THE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—May I send another "bull" to join the fine "herd" collected in the Spectator of April 30th P I once heard an Irish colleague of mine address his form thus : "Will all those boys who are absent this afternoon hold up their bands P "—I am, Sir, &c., Sibworth, Leicester, May 5th. R. R. R.
[To THR EDITOR OF THR " EfrECTATOR."1 SIE,—No doubt like many others of your readers, I was much interested in the amusing letter of your correspondent, "X. X. X.," in the Spectator of April 30th on "Bulls from Irish Pastures." It is, however, sometimes possible to meet with a noble specimen of the genus without crossing the Irish Channel. Some time ago in our parish church, not a hundred miles from London, our vicar, a worthy cadet of an ancient and honourable Irish family, was urging on his flock the duty of more generous almsgiving, and after dwell- ing on the obligation to give a tenth of one's income, he added in a fine burst of fervour that many were so circumstanced that they ought not to be satisfied with a mere tenth, but should give a twentieth! I think that a finer specimen of the genus than this is rarely grown even in the County Cork.—
I am, Sir, &c., T. D.
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