Irish Americans -- Humor; Irish-American wit and humor
“Well, 'twus this way with him,” Mr. Dooley explained. “Ye see, he
didn't like th' looks iv th' newspapers. He got tired iv r-readin'
how many rows iv plaits Mrs. Potther Pammer had on th' las' dhress she
bought, an' whether McGovern oughtn't to go into th' heavy-weight class
an' fight Jeffries, an' he says, says th' la-ad, 'This is no right
readin' f'r th' pure an' passionless youth iv Kansas,' he says. 'Give
me,' he says, 'a chanst an' I'll projooce th' kind iv organ that'd be
got out in hiven,' he says, 'price five cints a copy,' he says, 'f'r
sale be all newsdealers; f'r advertisin' rates consult th' cashier,' he
says. So a man in Topeka that had a newspaper, he says: 'I will not be
behindhand,' he says, 'in histin' Kansas up fr'm its prisint low an'
irrellijous position,' he says. 'I don't know how th' inhabitants iv th'
place ye refer to is fixed,' he says, 'f'r newspapers,' he says, 'an' I
niver heerd iv annybody fr'm Kansas home-stakin' there,' he says, 'but
if ye'll attind to th' circulation iv thim parts,' he says, 'I'll see
that th' paper is properly placed in th' hands iv th' vile an' wicked iv
this earth, where,' he says, 'th' returns ar-re more quick,' he says.”
“Well, th' la-ad wint at it, an' 'twas a fine paper he made. Hogan was
in here th' other day with a copy iv it an' I r-read it. I haven't had
such a lithry threat since I was a watchman on th' canal f'r a week with
nawthin' to r-read but th' delinquent tax list an' the upper half iv a
weather map. 'Twas gran'. Th' editor, it seems, Hinnissy, wint into th'
editoryal rooms iv th' pa-aper an' he gathered th' force around him fr'm
their reg'lar jobs in th' dhrug stores, an' says he, 'Gintlemen,' he
says, 'tell me ye'er plans f'r to enoble this here Christyan publication
f'r to-day!' he says. 'Well,' says th' horse rayporther, 'they's
a couple iv rabbits goin' to sprint around th' thrack at th' fair
groun's,' he says. I think 'twud be a good thing f'r rellijon if ye'd
lind me tin that I might br-reak th' sin-thralled bookys that come down
here fr'm Kansas City f'r to skin th' righteous,' he says. 'No,' says
th' editor, he says, 'no horse racin' in this paper,' he says. ''Tis
th' roonation iv th' young, an' ye can't beat it,' he says. 'An' you,
fair-haired youth,' he says, 'what d'ye do that makes ye'er color so
good an' ye'er eye so bright?' 'I,' says th' la-ad, 'am th' boy that
writes th' fightin' dope,' he says. 'They'se a couple iv good wans on
at th' op'ra house to-night, an' if his Spiklets don't tin-can 'tis like
findin' money in an ol' coat that--' 'Fightin',' says th' editor, 'is
a crool an' onchristyan spoort,' he says. 'Instead iv chroniclin' th'
ruffyanism iv these misguided wretches that weigh in at th' ringside at
125 poun's, an' I see in a pa-aper I r-read in a barber shop th' other
day that Spike's gone away back--what's that I'm sayin'? Niver mind.
D'ye go down to th' home iv th' Rivrind Aloysius Augustus Morninbinch
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