"Ah well," said Mr. Hennessy, " who cares?"

"Faith I think ye're right," said Mr. Dooley. "A man will swallow
annything with a dinner. What is good f'r what Hogan calls th'
iliminthry canal has nawthin' to do with th' Nicaragoon Canal an'
I'd be more afraid iv Lord Cheeseshop if he thought th' toast an'
didn't say it. Our Anglo-Saxon relations is always a give-away
--on some wan."




Art Patronage



"I see in this pa-aper," said Mr. Dooley, "they'se a fellow kickin'
because an American painther ain't got anny chanst again' foreign
compytition."

"Sure," said Mr. Hennessy; "he's aisy displazed. I niver knew th'
business to be betther. Wages is high an' 'tis a comfortable
thrade barrin' colic."

"I don't mane that kind iv painthers," said Mr. Dooley. "I don't
mane th' wans that paint ye'er barn, but th' wans that paints a
pitcher iv ye'er barn an' wants to sell it to ye f'r more thin th'
barn is worth. This man says no matther how industhrees an American
painther is, no matther if he puts on his overalls arly in th'