so's me pitchers will have a fair show, I sign annywan's name ye
want to thim. Ye've heerd iv Michael Angelo? That's me. Ye've
heerd iv Gainsborough? That's me. Ye've heerd iv Millet, th' boy
that painted th' pitcher give away with th' colored supplimint iv
th' Sundah Howl? That's me. Yis, sir, th' rale name iv near ivry
distinguished painther iv modhren times is Remsen K. Smith. Whin
ye go home, if ye see a good painther an' glazier that'd like a
job as assistant Rimbrandt f'r th' American thrade, sind him to
me. F'r,' he says, 'th' on'y place an American artist can make a
livin' is here. Charity f'r artists,' he says, 'begins abroad,'
he says."

"Well," said Mr. Hennessy, "perhaps a bum Europeen pitcher is
betther thin a good American pitcher."

"Perhaps so," said Mr. Dooley. "I think it is so. Annyhow, no
matther how bad a painther he is, annywan that can get money out
iv an American millyionaire is an artist an' desarves it. There's
th' rale art. I wish it was taught in th' schools. I'd like to
see an exhibition at th' Museem with 'Check iv American Gintleman,
dhrawn fr'm life,' hung on th' wall."




Immigration



"Well, I see Congress has got to wurruk again," said Mr. Dooley.