[WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD TREDEGAR.]
[EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE.]
I would rather trust and be deceived, than be found to have suspected falsely.
Reduction of Armaments Meeting, Newport,
March 17th, 1899.
Some people will not go across a street to hear an oratorio, though they would go many miles to listen to that very entertaining melody, "Whoa, Emma!"—and I'm not sure that I shouldn't be one of them.—
Tredegar Show.
November 26th, 1879.
The other day I was doing a little bit of horse-cropping—I'm fond of that sort of thing—and went into an Irish dealer's yard, where I saw a horse which grunted very much. Looking at the dealer, I said, "The horse is a roarer," and the Irishman replied: "Ah, no, me lord, not a bit of it. I've 'ad 'im from two years ould, an' e' 'ad wunce a most desprit froight, an' 'e's 'ad the hiccups ever since!"