Irish Americans -- Humor; Irish-American wit and humor
“Well, now, ye'd think that was all right, wudden't ye? Ye'd say Asthor
acted mild whin he didn't take down his goold ice pick from th' wall
an' bate th' Cap over th' head. Th' Cap, though a ganial soul, had no
business there. 'Twas Willum Waldorf Asthor that paid f'r the ice cream
an' rented th' chiny. But that's where ye'd be wrong, an' that's where I
was wrong. Whin th' Prince iv Wales heerd iv it he was furyous. 'What,'
he says, 'is an English gintleman goin' to be pegged out iv dures be a
mere American be descent?' he says. 'A man,' he says, 'that hasn't
an entail to his name,' he says. 'An American's home in London is an
Englishman's castle,' he says. 'As th' late Earl iv Pitt said, th'
furniture may go out iv it, th' constable may enther, th' mortgage may
fall on th' rooned roof, but a thrue Englishman'll niver leave,' he
says, 'while they'se food an' dhrink,' he says. 'Willum Waldorf Asthor
has busted th' laws iv hospitality, an' made a monkey iv a lile subjick
iv th' queen,' he says. 'Hinceforth,' he says, 'he's ast to no picnics
iv th' Buckingham Palace Chowder Club,' he says. An' th' nex' day Willum
Waldorf Asthor met him at th' races where he was puttin' down a bit iv
money an' spoke to him, an' th' Prince iv Wales gave him wan in th' eye.
He must've had something in his hand, f'r the pa-aper said he cut him.
P'raps 'twas his scipter. An' now no wan'll speak to Willum Waldorf
Asthor, an' he's not goin' to be a jook at all, an' he may have to come
back here an' be nachurlized over again like a Bohamian. He's all broke
up about it. He's gone to Germany to take a bath.”
“Lord, help us,” said Mr. Hennessy, “can't he get wan nearer home?”
“It seems not,” said Mr. Dooley. “Mebbe the Prince iv Wales has had th'
wather cut off. He has a big pull with th' people in th' city hall.”
DOINGS OF ANARCHISTS
“Why should anny man want to kill a king?” said Mr. Dooley. “That's what
I'd like to know. Little gredge have I again' anny monarch in th' deck.
Live an' let live's me motto. Th' more ye have in this wurruld th' less
ye have. Make in wan place, lose in another's th' rule, me boy. Little
joy, little sorrow. Takin' it all an' all I'd rather be where I am thin
on a throne, an' be th' look iv things I'll have me wish. 'Tis no aisy
job bein' a king barrin' th' fact that ye don't have to marry th' woman
iv ye'er choice but th' woman iv somebody else's. 'Tis like takin' a
conthract an' havin' th' union furnish th' foreman an' th' mateeryal.
Thin if th' wurruk ain't good a wild-eyed man fr'm Paterson, Noo Jarsey,
laves his monkey an' his hand organ an' takes a shot at ye. Thank
th' Lord I'm not so big that anny man can get comfort fr'm pumpin' a
Winchester at me fr'm th' top iv a house.”
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