To Chasten & Cherish

It was as touching a tale as had come from across the Irish Sea in many a year. Eire offered to sell Britain some fine canned beef. The British, hungry though they were, said no. Could Eire sell them canned horsemeat instead?

That touched many an Irish heart. John Aloysius Costello, the Taoiseach, announced that he would himself go to London and offer the canned beef at a more attractive price. James Dillon, the Minister of Agriculture and a grand one with a ringing phrase, told why Eire could do no less: "We will never ask [the British] to feed on canned horse ... It is one of the destinies reserved by God for the Irish to chasten the British--and to cherish them in their hour of adversity."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.