IRISH "BULLS."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—Having greatly enjoyed your article on "Irish Bulls," I should be glad if you would tell me to what variety to allocate these. A young lady said the other day that "she liked a certain dog to follow her, as it always went in an opposite direction." Another odd saying I found in the Spectator of February 23rd, p. 274, col. 1:—" It appears that it has for a very long period been hereditary with Frenchmen to have no children." It puzzles me how a man that has no heir can hand on to a non-existent child the clamnosa haareditas of [Has the Irish struggle really extinguished the sense of humour in England ? We thought the joke about heredity the best known of all "Bulls,"—too well known to be put within quotation marks.—En. Spectator.]
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