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It's a man's wurruk, an' a sthrong man's with a sthrong stomach. I don't know annything that requires what Hogan calls th' exercise iv manly vigor more thin votin'. It's th' hardest wurruk I do in th' year. I get up befure daylight an' thramp over to th' Timple iv Freedom, which is also th' office iv a livery stable. Wan iv th' judges has a cold in his head an' closes all th' windows.
'Th' women'll earn their own livin', she says; 'an' mebbe, she says, 'th' men'll stay at home an' dredge in th' house wurruk, she says. 'A-ho, says Donahue. 'An' that's th' new woman, is it? he says. An' he said no more that night. "But th' nex' mornin' Mrs. Donahue an' Mollie come to his dure. 'Get up, says Mrs. Donahue, 'an' bring in some coal, she says.
There's nawthin' to take his mind off his wurruk. He sleeps at night with his nose against th' shingled roof iv his little frame home an' dhreams iv cinch bugs. While th' stars are still alight he walks in his sleep to wake th' cows that left th' call f'r four o'clock. Thin it's ho! f'r feedin' th' pigs an' mendin' th' reaper.
If I was rejooced to wurrukin' f'r me livin', if I was a son iv Marthy I'd be a bricklayer. They always sthrike durin' th' buildin' season. They time it just right. They niver quit wurruk. They thry not to meet it. It is what Hogan calls a pecolyar fact that bricklayers always time their vacations f'r th' peeryod whin there is wurruk to be done.
McMahon had too much money annyhow. If he'd kept on, dollar bills'd have been extinct outside iv his house. But he was a sthrong man in thim days an' much liked." "Anyhow, Lafferty, that was his sicrety, come in, an' says he: 'What are ye doin' there? says he. 'Step soft, says I; 'I am at wurruk, I says. 'Ye shudden't do lithry wurruk on an empty stomach, says he.
'I'll fight whiniver 'tis cool, he says, 'an' they ain't wan iv these twelve men here that wudden't follow me to hell if they was awake at th' time, he says; 'but, he says, 'if 'twas wurruk we were lookin' f'r, we cud have found it long ago, he says. 'They'se a lot iv it in this counthry that nobody's usin', he says.
People may get so they'll carry a light dinner iv a pint iv rye down to their wurruk, an' a man'll tell ye he niver takes more thin a bottle iv beer f'r breakfast. Th' cook'll give way to th' bartinder and th' doctor 'll ordher people f'r to ate on'y at meals.
Cubian buys hersilf a new bonnet; and where wanst they was sorrow an' despair all is happiness an' a cottage organ. "Ye can't make people here undherstand that, an' ye can't make a Cubian undherstand that freedom means th' same thing as a pinitinchry sintince. Whin we thry to get him to wurruk, he'll say: 'Why shud I? I haven't committed anny crime. That's goin' to be th' throuble.
"'Worse, says I. 'Foolish man, says I. 'Don't ye know that it ain't our Bill that's been nommynated? I says. 'This is a Nebraska man, I says. 'Well, he says, 'if 'tis Bill O'Brien, he'd win easy. But, he says, 'if 'tis not, he says, ''tis wan iv th' fam'ly, he says. 'I'll change this here novel an' make it a sketch iv th' cousin iv th' candydate, he says. An' he wint on with his wurruk."
If you don't mind I'll just stay here and help you " "Sorra an objection," said the Irishman. "Pick up Tim's musket behind you there and get to wurruk!" "Bon jour!" said the other side. "One camarade ees always zee welcome!" An order rang down the line. "Sthop firing, is it?" remarked the Irishman. "And that's the first dacint wurrud I've heard this half hour! Wid all the plazure in life, captin!"
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