Excerpt from Ireland

There is what the Englishman calls an Irish bull in this speech, but the Irish bull usually means that something is left to the imagination. I will leave you to discover for yourself the hiatus which would have made the steward's remark a sober English statement.

These things make an Irish heart bound up as exultantly as the lark springs to the sky of a day of April - that is to say, of an Irish exile home-return ing - for the dweller in Ireland grows used to such pearls of Speech.

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