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I felt dam lonely, an' with raison, too; f'r I was th' on'y man in th' camp that didn't have a job. An' says I, 'Gintlemen, says I, 'can't I do something f'r Ireland, too? I says. 'I'd make a gr-reat city threasurer, says I, 'if ye've th' job handy, I says; and at that they give me th' laugh, and we tuk up a subscription an' adjourned.
I wudden't believe at first whin I r-read th' dispatches in th' pa-apers that me frind Gin'ral Otis wasn't in South Africa. It was on'y whin I see another chapter iv his justly cillybrated seeryal story, intitled 'Th' Capture iv Porac' that I knew he had an imitator in th' mother counthry. An' be hivins, I like th' English la- ad's style almost as well as our own gr-reat artist's.
All we've got to do is to arrest th' pathrites an' make th' reconcenthradios pay th' stamp tax, an' be r-ready f'r to take a punch at Germany or France or Rooshia or anny counthry on th' face iv th' globe. "An' I'm glad iv it. This war, Hinnissy, has been a gr-reat sthrain on me. To think iv th' suffrin' I've endured!
'Have ye committed some gr-reat crime? he says. 'Partly, says Willum Waldorf Asthor. 'It was partly me an' partly me folks, he says. 'I was, he says, in a voice broken be tears, 'I was, he says, 'bor-rn in New York, he says. Th' clark made th' sign iv th' cross an' says he: 'Ye shudden't have come here, he says. 'Poor afflicted wretch, he says, 'ye need a clargyman, he says.
I have a gr-reat rayspict f'r the sages an' I believe in namin' sthreets an' public schools afther thim.
His wife was a common scold an' led him th' life he desarved. They niver leave th' ladies out iv these stories iv th' gr-reat. A woman that marries a janius has a fine chance iv her false hair becomin' more immortal thin his gr-reatest deed.
A Higher Power even than Mack, much as I rayspict him, is in this here job. We cannot pause, we cannot hesitate, we cannot delay, we cannot even stop! We must, in other wurruds, go on with a holy purpose in our hearts, th' flag over our heads an' th' inspired wurruds iv A. Jeremiah Beveridge in our ears, he says. An' he set down." "Well, sir,'twas a gr-reat speech. 'Twas a speech ye cud waltz to.
They'd lay their own corner-shtone f'r all iv me. I'd communicate with th' pop'lace be means iv ginral ordhers, an' I'd make it a thing worth tellin' about to see th' face iv th' gr-reat an' good King Dooley." "Kings is makin' thimsilves too common.
"Well sir, 'tis a gr-reat thing f'r a counthry to have th' likes iv thim ar-round to direct manoovers that'd be gatherin' dust on th' shelf if th' gin'rals had their say, an' to prove to th' wurruld that th' English ar-re not frivolous, excitable people like us an' th' Frinch, but can take a batin' without losin' their heads." "Sure," said Mr.
"I was talkin' with Father Kelly about it afther Hogan wint out. 'Were they all so bad, thim men that I've been brought up to think so gloryous? says I. 'They were men, says Father Kelly. 'Ye mustn't believe all ye hear about thim, no matther who says it, says he. 'It's a thrait iv human nature to pull down th' gr-reat an' sthrong.
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