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What was to be done? He was in the perplexing situation, to use his own words, "of the cat in the thripe shop," he didn't know which way to choose. At last, after turning himself over in the sun several times, a new idea struck him. Couldn't he go to Fingal himself? and then he'd be equal to that upstart, O'Sullivan.
'But, he says, 'I must first notify th' polis, he says, 'so's to prevint disordher, he says. So he wint to th' chief iv polis, who was an ol' frind iv his, they was in th' same newspaper office or thripe dairy or something, an' th' chief kissed Jools, an' asked him what he cud do f'r him.
Hen had none, but I volunteered to trust him. "Go on now, guess!" said he. "Pirtas an' broth!" said I. "Yer blinked, ye cabbage head, we've got two yards ov thripe forby!" I carried two quarts to as many neighbors. Mary carried three. As they were settling down to dinner Arthur Gainer arrived with his mother's contribution. Jamie sampled it and laughed outright.
What th' butcher done I dinnaw; but annyhow they accused him iv wantin' to poleaxe th' governmint; an' they thrun him into a cell. Now th' butcher he had a frind be th' name iv Guerin, an Irish name it is, but this la-ad don't appear to be wan iv us, Jools Guerin. He was wanst in th' thripe business; but he is now r-runnin' a newspaper, like most iv th' people iv Fr-rance.
As a thripe butcher, his circulation was larger an' among a betther class than his newspaper. Bein' a la-ad with a fine sinse iv gratichood, an' havin' been wanst fed an' clothed be a Jew man, he calls his pa-aper th' Anti-Jew; an' its principle is, whin ye see a Jew, hand him a crack in th' jaw.
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