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Updated: June 6, 2025
In the mane time, says he, sitting down and attacking a fine piece of corn-beef and greens, 'I'll take care of a certain acquaintance of mine, says he. 'How are you, reverend gintlemen of the Secularily? You'll permit a poor friar to sit and ate his dinner, in your presence, I humbly hope.
Mack r-rose up in a perfect hurcane iv applause, an' says he, 'Gintlemen, he says, 'an' fellow-heroes, he says, 'ye do me too much honor; he says. 'I alone shud not have th' credit iv this gloryous victhry. 'We have just emerged fr'm a turrible war, he says. 'Again, he says, 'we ar-re a united union, he says. 'No north, he says, 'no south, no east, he says, 'no west.
Madame Bill had charge of costumes, and her tastes were what you might call exhilarated. Flannagan began: "Ladies and gintlemen," he says. "The pleasure I take in inthroducin' 'The Flannagan an' Imparial Itinerant Exhibition, to this intelligent aujunce, has niver been equalled in me mimory.
"Boys," said Tim O'Rooney, who had not let his pipe go out since morning. "Shall I give yez some good advice?" Both expressed their eagerness to receive it. "There bees plenty of the rid gintlemen yet in this counthry, and we haven't got beyant them.
"Gintlemen," said Finigan, now staggering down towards the parties, "I am a man of pacific principles, acquainted wid the larned languages, wid mathematics, wid philosophy, the science of morality according to Fluxions I grant you, I'm not college-bred; but, gintlemen, I never invied the oysther in its shell for, gintlemen, I'm not ashamed of it, but I acquired I absorbed my laming, I may say, upon locomotive principles."
Ladies an' gintlemen, was ye iver invited before to the weddin' of a man of me impressive looks an' oratorical gifts, that first published his own banns, an' thin proposed, in your intelligent an' sympathetic prisence, to a lady of exalted ancesthry an' pre-eminent fame? Ye was not? Ye have now that unparallelled experience.
"Th' Sicrety iv th' Threasury was followed be th' Gin'ral Shafter. 'Gintlemen, says he, 'it gives me, he says, 'gr-reat pleasure, he says, 'to be prisint in th' mist iv so manny an' so various vittles, he says.
"God save ye, gintlemen!" said one of them, with a peculiar emphasis on the last word; "did ye here the news?" "No, Jemmy, what is it?" asked John. "Why, that Darby Hourigan is very ill," he replied, with mock gravity. "No thanks for your information, Jemmy," replied the other; "if you told us something of more interest we might thank you."
"By dad, an' maybe I did not, sure enough," he replied: "any man may make a mistake unknownst to himself; but I'd give my oath, an' be the five crasses, I kissed it as sure as however, a good thing's never the worse o' bein' twice done, gintlemen; so here goes, jist to satisfy yez;" and, placing the book near, his mouth, and altering his position a little, he appeared to comply, though, on the contrary, he touched neither it nor his thumb.
In thim days our fav'rite spoort was playin' solytare, winnin' money fr'm each other, an' no wan th' worse off. Ivry-body was invious iv us. We didn't care f'r th' big game goin' on in th' corner. Whin it broke up in a row we said: 'Gintlemen, gintlemen! an' maybe wint over an' grabbed somebody's stake. But we cudden't stand it anny longer.
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