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"I know some people SAY they are," Brother Pierce guardedly retorted "but I've summered an' wintered both kinds, an' I hold to it they're different. I grant ye, the Eyetalians ARE some given to jabbin' knives into each other, but they never git up strikes, an' they don't grumble about wages.
The Eyetalians maybe didn't know no better, but I should have to suffer, too, when for four-seventy-nine I can buy myself at Tracy's the finest kind of a rocking-chair that fits me." "Roody!" "Say, Feist agrees with me; only, he don't know you well enough yet to let on.
In the old country, I tell you, I got no business. All the Eyetalians what I want to see I can see down on Cherry Street for less as two thousand dollar too." "Why why, that's no way to learn about 'em, papa. You just ought to see me take a back seat when Lilly Lillianthal gets out her post-cards and begins telling about the real ones." Mrs.
"Wait a little," whispered the latter, "till the Eyetalians are at it, cat and dog fashion." The discussion was now so loud and warm, that it was not necessary to lose much time. Ithuel gave the signal, and Raoul dragged his head and shoulders up by his arms, while he placed his feet against the gun; the next moment, he was hanging perpendicularly beneath the main-chains.
Let Peleg Bemus be tellin' one o' his eastern janitor adventures, an' Eb'd set an' agree with him, past noddin' an' up to words, all about elevators an' Ferris boats an' Eyetalians an' things he'd never laid look to. He seemed to hev a spine made mostly o' molasses. An' sometimes I think your spine's your soul.
Dey's two t'ousan' Eyetalians, five hunered niggers, more'n a t'ousan' Poles, and de res' is all kinds. An' every dern one of em's eddicated!" "Educated! Really, you don't mean it?" "Eddicated! You kin betcher boots. De performin' dogs in the circus aint a patch to dem free and intelligent Amerikin citerzens.
But give a hand to the min, there. The Eyetalians are underneath." Disregarding his suggestion, however, we began working about him, every man throwing away bricks like a machine; but he would not have it. "'Tind to the min!" he insisted with all of his old firmness. "The Eyetalians are under there Matt an' Jimmie. Can't ye see that I'll be all right till ye get thim out?
Shewer, they're no crapin' Eyetalians, that'll let ye taalk to thim as ye pl'ase. Indade not. Ye'll have to fight with them fellies." "Well, that's a queer state of affairs," I remarked, and then added, "Do you think you can handle them, Rourke?" "Handle thim!" he exclaimed, his glorious wrath kindling in anticipation of a possible conflict. "Handle thim, an' the likes av a thousand av thim!
He says he's a Norwegian. His second point is that all bad feeling between nationalities ought to be stopped if the strike's to be won. He says he's seen fights already between Irish and Eyetalians." Up leaped an enormous negro docker who sounded as though he preached often on Sundays. "Yes, brothers," he boomed, "let us stop our fights. Let us desist let us refrain.
He said he made a great discovery: that the "black people" against whom they had struck in 1894 were not to blame! "I tell you," said he, "we found when we got started that them black people we used to call 'em dagoes were just workin' people like us and in hell with us. They were good soldiers, them Eyetalians and Poles and Syrians, they fought with us to the end."
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