MR O'DOOLAN'S OPINIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11730, 4 December 1905, Page 5

MR O'DOOLAN'S OPINIONS.

A keen, boisterous wind was blowing, and Mr O'Doolan. as he entered the Harp of Erin, felt glad to be able to remove his hand from his hat. "Good aviniu' to yez, Tim," he said, as ho entered. " 'Tis a bit rampageous outside," observed O'Grady, who had come in just a moment before his old friend. " 'Tis that same, me bhoy, an' by th' same token, 'tis just the noight that makes ycz appreshiate th' blcwain's ay that great an' glorrious toimo whin Nollcense will lave us widout a cosy cornier to turn into at noiglit/ 1 "Sposhiilly whin yez is thravellin" up in tin* back blocks," commented Tim. "Faith, an' 'tis \xs&'> \iJiJA f wuz thinkin' ay." replied the old gentleman. " 'Tia th' illigant toimo th' v/oaricd thraviier would have drinched , thru' wid rain, an' his chin waggin' wid the cowld, whin h« called at an up-counthry pub. 'Landlord,' ho wud sing out, 'fotch us some whisky, me jewel.' Thin Bez th' landlord, ' 'Tis a No-license house, sor, but yoz can have some liminade.' "Twill be a boon an 'a blcssin' to win. Tim. as th* Pope sez." "Pi'o'bLslxuii is a $a<l at t'utlier feller s i-'xpiuse," remarked O'Grady. "By Lim'rick. Tim. but yoz is gettin' a moighty shmart bhpy to rimimber so well what yez is towld. chuckled Mr O'Doolan. "But yez is roight, Tim. that's just puwat Pro'bishun amounts to. 'Triiukr sez the Pro'bishers, "phwa't a lot ay poor mm gits dhrunk. Wan in ivry hundhred. Phwat an intimnrato counthry. Phwa't a foino thing to giv it up for their sakos,' they sez. Then i sez- Rome wan to tliitn, 'Wnd yez g-iv' it tip yersilfr 1 ' .An' they tiyi, 'Wo don't take it : so wa don't know. But wo calla on yez to give it tip. W« gives nothin' Tip,' tney sez, 'therefore it is your bounden duty to do phwat we don't.' "' Mr O'Doolan continued 1 "Thin fi«z <V wan exhorted, 'But who sthands th' racket.' 'Oehl' sez the Pro'bishers, "make yer moiud aijay on that, mo frind. Tiio pubkapers shtand th' racket. We gets th' glory ay a great an' grrand rayibrrm at their oxptnse.' " "Rob Peter, an' pay- Paul," said Tim, sententiously. "Rob Peter and pay no wan," replied old Michael, "'Carry tnis grrand raylorrm,' they sez, 'an,'., we gets th' glory. Carry this grrand ray for r in, an' th' spalpeen pubkaper loses Ids hvin'. 'Tis a tair arrangemint; glory iur us; starvasinm fur thim. " "'Au' "phwat does thj, man phvot is exhorted get out ay it.TSlr'O'Doolan?" . "Tbajt's just ,>pli\-^t v jhe aaks th,' glory sh travers, Tim. An' sez th' Pro'bishers, 'Make- yer moind aisy. ins Llioy. We'll luk ai'ther that." We've arranged that yez '11 have yer beer whinivor yez wants it, all quiet au' respittablc in yer o".vn home, wid yer cliildcr admirin' their daddy as ho hold's th' bottle- to his lips. That's phwat wo rejict'ed clause 9 fur.'"

"An" so, Tim, th' 'exhorted wan goes homje, muttlierin' to hissilf, 'Beer fur mo ; glory to ,xli' Pro'biskvrs,; an' all at th' pubxapcr'a expinse. !'"