ABSTRACT
‘Wild wit, invention ever new,’ 149 appear in high perfection amongst even the youngest inhabitants of an Irish cottage. The word wit, amongst the lower classes in Ireland, means not only quickness of repartee, but cleverness in action; it implies invention and address, with no slight mixture of cunning; all which is expressed in their dialect by the single word ‘cuteness (acuteness). Examples will give a / better notion of this than can be conveyed by any definition.
