succissor

Updated: May 10, 2025

Well, the Pope at first was going to get vexed at Father Tom for fetching dhrink thataway in his pocket, as if there wasn't lashins in the house: so says he, "Misther Maguire," says he, "I'd have you to comprehind the differ betuxt an inwitation to dinner from the succissor of Saint Pether, and from a common nagur of a Prodesan squirean that maybe hasn't liquor enough in his cupboard to wet more nor his own heretical whistle.

- Stories of Comedy

'In me will, says Kruger. 'Whin I die, he says, 'an' I hope to live to be a hundherd if I keep on smokin' befure breakfast, he says, 'I'll bequeath to me frinds, th' English, or such iv thim as was here befure I come, th' inalienable an' sacred right to demand fr'm me succissor th' privilege iv ilictin' an aldherman, he says.

Finley Peter Dunne - Mr. Dooley's Philosophy