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New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 8, 22 February 1923, Page 27

“I see Hogan th’ nixt day an’ asked him why he played. ‘ Why,’ says I, ‘ d’ye make a joke iv ye’ersilf at ye’er time iv life, an’ ye a man with a family says I. ‘That’s just it,’ says he. ‘I do it because iv me time iv life an’ me fam’ly cares,’ says he. * I defy anny man in th’ wurruld to get a bad lie in a bunker an’ think iv annything else. He’s that mad all his other sorrows, his debts, his sins, an’ his future, disappears,’ he says, ‘ like a summer cloud

in a hur’eane. I’m that onhappy nawthin’ bothers me. If a man come up an’ told me me house was a-fire I’d not

hear him. I don’t know what it is,’ says he, ' ‘ onless,’ he says, ‘ it’s th’ feelin’ that ye’er bein’ persecuted. It’s ye’er. sinse iv injustice that’s stirred up in ye, that makes ye injye a round,’-says he.”— Nash's Magazine. .