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It is very ridiculous for people who have learned a Irish to proceed at once to “” the forms of speech which the best intellect of the nation has been using for centuries, and to  beautiful Irish words because they happen to sound like certain English words, with the meaning of which they have no connection.)

“Four old hags who are not gap-toothed; Four Frenchmen who are not yellow; Four shoemakers who do not tell lies; There is a dozen people who do not exist in the country.”