Rather Mixed.—The following is from The Irish Times on "Landslips":—"To feel the solid earth rock beneath his feet, to have his natural foothold on the globe's surface swept, so to speak, out of his grasp, is to the stoutest heart of man terrifying in the extreme."
From Ireland.—Good name for an auctioneer's wife—Biddy.
HIBERNIAN ARITHMETIC
Shure multiplication—of chiefs—is vexation,
But faix, there is fun in substhraction.
Addition will you knit with me as one unit,
And unity flabberghasts faction.
As for rule o' three!—betther one, and that me!