It is necessary in some parts of Ireland for carmen to have their names legibly written on the tailboard of the car. Inspector. "What's the meanin' of this, Pat? Your name's o-bliterated." Pat. "Ye lie—it's O'Brien!"
PRESIDENT PAT
(From the forthcoming History of Parliament)
One blow and Ireland sprang from the head of her Saxon enslaver a new Minerva! Proudly and solemnly she then sat down to frame a Republic worthy of Plato and Pat. Her first president had been a workhouse porter and a night watchman. He was, therefore, eminently fitted both for civil and military administration. The speech of President Pat on opening Congress develops his policy and his well-digested plans of legislative reform. Here are a few choice quotations:—
The key-stone of Government is the blarney stone.
Political progress may always be accelerated by a bludgeon.
Our institutions must be consolidated by soft soap and whacks.
The people's will is made known by manifesto, and by many fists too.