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Show TOO MUCH FOR THE CORPSE Exhibition of Meanness That Galvanized Galvan-ized the "Dead" Irishman Into Indignant Life. "Don't ba mean In your offerings," raid T. P. O'Connor, In a plea in New York for tho Irish cause. "The Irish can't Etand meanness. "No, no; the Irish can't stand meanness. mean-ness. Take O Grady'a case. You know, in Ireland, somo 60 or 70 years ngo, when a poor family lacked a cottin they made the corpse beg for it. "This custom, alas! sometimes led to Imposture. Thus, Thirsty O'Urady and his friends wanted money badly onco, and O'Grady was assigned to act the corpse. So they laid him on a bier outsldo the door and they put a pewter plato beside him for the pennies. "As O'Grady lay there, so stl!!. with closed eyes, an old woman stopped, and dropped sixpence Into tho plato. Then sho began to take out change. A penny, tuppence, threepence sho took out, and O'Grndy couldn't stand such meanness. Corpse as he was, be said: ! " 'Arrah, now, don't mind the change.'" Washington Star. |