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Show I THE ORIGINAL "MR. DOOL.V." Character Made Immortal b, Fi.iley ' Peter Dunne. Tho original Mr. Dooley, now gone hla way, was a character well known to George Ado, John McCutcheon, Vanco Thompson and many other Cb'cago newspaper wen long before Peter Dunne made 51 m a national celebrity. It was Vanco Thompson, by tho way, who swooped down on tho old gentlomwi In a sleepy hour, borrowed two dollars from him be-foio be-foio ho rightly realized it and vanished van-ished again Into tho outer darkness while he waa still rubbing his eyes. This llttlo. episode ho subsequently referred to as "th hurricane touch." I Similar anecdotes of tho old man's wit. are cherished as particular pos-' sessions. Ceorgo Ade has one that he entitles "human gratitude." Late ' one night he was surprised to find the ! proprietor nsloep behind his own bar. On being rovied, that worthy showed a marked disinclination for business and a strong desire to bo let alone. 8o A" pulled down tho blinds, stacked nn the cuspidors, locked tho cash register and callod a cab. With tome difficulty ho elicited an address and then for what seemed hours thoy Jounced over out-of-the-way streets until at last the cabbie drew up 'before a ramahackle little box of a frame house with a stairway running up the outside. All this time tho passonger had slept sweetly. Out of the cab and np tho rickety stairs, puffing and blowing, Ado bundled his charge. On the top stop ho lost his footing and the two of them rolhd higgledy-piggledy higgledy-piggledy to tho street. The old gon-tloman gon-tloman sat up regarded Ado with the utmost indignation, and spoko the first words of the ovonlng: "Jai)?e," said ho, "yo thrlppod mo." |