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They ought to be kilt off as fast as they're caught." "They'll be that," said Mr. Dooley. "But killin' thim is like wringin' th' neck iv a mickrobe." "Hinnissy, if iver we have war with what me frind Carl Schurz'd call th' Mother County, it'll not come fr'm anny Vinnyzwalan question.

'Hinnissy, says I, 'come home, I says, 'an' don't disgrace ye'er gray hairs befure th' whole parish, says I. 'I'll have ye to know, says he, 'that 'tis not long since I cud cut a double eight with anny wan in Bridgeport, he says.

'Why, he says, 'I see that man put up an' eight iv beer with wan hand, he says, 'holdin' it be th' rim, he says. 'None sthronger, he says. 'But will he carry Illinye? says th' lad fr'm Iaway. 'Will he carry Illinye? says Hinnissy. 'Why, man alive, he says, 'I've see him carry a prim'ry in th' sixth precint, he says. 'Is that enough f'r ye? he says.

Vincent de Pauls, an' ilicted a director iv a bank th' same day. "Now, Hinnissy, that there man niver knowed he was bribed th' first time. Th' second time he knew. He ast f'r it. An' I wudden't hang Dochney. I wudden't if I was sthrong enough.

Th' on'y thing a Congressman isn't afraid iv is th' on'y thing I'd be afraid iv, an' that is iv bein' a Congressman. An' th' thing he's most afraid iv is th' ladies. A comity iv ladies wud make Congress repeal th' ten commandments. Not that they'd iver ask thim to, Hinnissy.

If he knew annything about balloons, he'd have a chanst; but we white men, Hinnissy, has all th' balloons. But, annyhow, he's doomed, as Hogan says. Th' onward march iv th' white civilization, with morgedges an' other modhern improvements, is slowly but surely, as Hogan says, chasin' him out; an' th' last iv him'll be livin' in a divin'-bell somewhere out in th' Pacific Ocean." "Well," said Mr.

He's too good a man." "He is all iv that," said Mr. Dooley. "But ye bet he knows th' rale platform f'r him is: 'Look at th' bad breaks Mack's made, an' Mack's platform is: 'Ye'd get worse if ye had Billy Bryan. An' it depinds on whether most iv th' voters ar-re tired out or on'y a little tired who's ilicted. All excipt you, Hinnissy. Ye'll vote f'r Bryan?" "I will," said Mr. Hennessy.

"I had no more thought whin I wint over with him that th' silly goat 'd thry his pranks thin I have iv flyin' over this here bar mesilf. Hinnissy is let me see how ol' Hinnissy is. He was a good foot taller thin me th' St. John's night whin th' comet was in th' sky. Let me see, let me see! Hinnissy's oldest brother was too old to inlist in th' army. Six an' thirty is thirty-six.

'Tell him, he says, 'that th' situation is just th' same as it was durin' Wash'nton's time, he says, 'on'y Wash'nton won, an' we're rapidly losin' kopjes till we soon won't have wan to sthrike a match on, he says. An' off goes th' good men. Whin they started the Boers was doin' pretty well, Hinnissy. They were fightin' Englishmen, an' that's a lawn tinnis to a rale fightin' man.

Dooley put his paper aside and pushed his spectacles up on his forehead. "Well," he said, "I suppose, afther all, we're th' mos' lively nation in th' wurruld. It doesn't seem many months ago since ye, Hinnissy, was down at th' depot cheerin' th' departin' heroes " "I niver was," said Mr. Hennessey. "I stayed at home." "Since ye was down cheerin' th' departin' heroes," Mr.