21 SEPTEMBER 1895, Page 16

AN IRISH STORY.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1

Sin,—An Irish gentleman visiting here said to an English officer,—" Do you know Mr. —, of — " The officer disclaimed having that pleasure. " Ah, he is a very nice fellow, and a good friend of mine. But he has been dead these six years. An' allure, you're very like him !" The officer said he had been compared to a good many things in the course of his lifetime, but never before to a six-year-old