MR. DOOLEY ON TRAVEL.
I gueES, Humify, whin ye come i o think uv it they qin't auny such thimr as luxury in thravel We was mean^ lo stay where wo found oursilves first, and. tbrav* ollm' is conthry to nature. I can go fr'm Chicago l<> Kew York in twinty hours, but »v.iat s th' matter with Chicago? I can iujyo places botther be not goin' to (him 1 think ay Italy as th' homo iv th' Pope, but Hocran, who has been there, thinks iv it as th' homo iv the fle» I can hpb th' dome iv St. Pether's risin' again' th' sky, but he can on'j- sec th' cabman that charged him eighty liars, or thirty cints iv our money, to carry him arowm.l th' block. I think iv New York as a place where people set shinin' their dimonds with satin napkins at th' Waldorf an' dhnnkjn champagne out iv roolcl coalscuttles with Jawn W. Uatpt, but I know a ( man down there that dhrives.a dhray. Ivc always wanted to see th 1 Rooky Mountains, but they don't look aa tall nrabiy as thry do far away."
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Evening Post, Issue 51, 29 February 1908, Page 10
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