Show MEDITATIONS OF MRDOOLEY On a Hero Who Has Worked Over time Chicago Journal Well sir said Mf BoOby it looks now as if they a nothing left fr me young frind Asgynaldoo to do but Ume Like as not ayer frm lOW hell be in jail like Napoleon th Im pror iv th Frrinch was in his Jay an Mike th Burglar an other lath rites Thats what conies iv bein a pathrite too long TIs a good job whin theyse nawthin else to do but tis not th thing to wurruk overtime at Tis a sort iv outivdure spoort that ye thud engage in dunn th summer vacation I but whin a man carries it on durln business hours people begin to get down on him an afther awhile theyre ready to hang him to get him out iv th way As Hogan says Th las thing that happens to a pathrite hes a scoundrel scoun-drel Last summer there wasnt a warmer pathrite annywhere in our imperyal dominions do-minions thin this same AggynaUtoo I was with him mesllf Says I ihcvso a good coon I says Hell help us fr to make th Phlippeens IndUnnaant on us fr support says I an whin1 th blessins iv civilization hLS been ixtlndd t his beloved counthry an I says they put up Intarnal rivinue olHoes an postamces I says well give him a good job as a letter carrier I hays where he wont have annything to do t aresything I says but walk I says An so th consul at Ding Dong th man that rrun that Ind iv th Wl he says to Aggynaldoo Go he sis where glory waits ye he says Go an sthrike a blow he says Tr yere coun thry he says Go he says Ill stay but you go he says Theyse nawthiii in sitayin an ye might get hold iv a tyrannical watch or a pocketbook down beyant he says An Off wint th brave nathrite to do his jooty He done f too Whin Cousin George was pastin th former hated Caatiles who was it I Stood on th shore shootin his bowan arrow into th sky but Aggynaldoo Whin me frrind l Genral itN was f latin re gallant l charge again blank catredges who was it ranged Ms noble arrmy iv athrites behind him fr to I see that no wan attackted him frm th sea but Aggynaldoo He was a goodman good-man thina godd noisy man Th thrubble was he didnt know whin to knock off He didnt har th wurruk bell callin him to come in frm playin ball an get down to business Says me Cousin George Agsynaldoo me buck he says th war is jvir he says an weve settled down to th 01 game he says Theyre no more heroes All iv thins has gone to wurruk fr th magazines Theyre no more pathrites he says They got jobs as govnors or arre lookin fr thim or annything else he says All th uromnint savivors iv their country he says but mesilf he says is busy preparin their deflate he says I have no definse he says but Im where they cant reach ate he says Th spoort is all out iv th Job an i ye dont come m an jine th1 tin masses Iv wage wurrukcrs he says ye wont even have th credit iv bein licked In a gloryous victhry he says So to th wood pile vjth ye he I says Tr ye cant go on oillybratln th Foorth iv July without bein took up fr dlsordhly conduct he says I An Aggynaldoo doesnt undherstand it An he gathers his Archery club I arround him an says ae Fellow I pathrites he says weve been betrayed betray-ed ho Says Weve been sold out without with-out he says gettin th usual commission II commis-sion he says Were still heroes he says an our puchers is in th uano ers he says Go in he says an I sthrike a blow attth gay deceivers he says Ill sell yere lives dear he says An th Archery club wint In l path rites wint up again a band iv Kansas sojers that was wanst heroes before they lamed th hayfootsthrawfoot I a is now arnin th wage iv a ccod harvest hand all th year arround and an-d rather tight than ate th nrrmy beef an ye know what happened Some iv th por divvies Ivheroes is liberated frm th cares iv life an th rrest iv Shim is up in threes an wishin they was home smokln a good ceegar with mother mothe An all this because Aggynaldoo didnt hear th whistle blow Ue thought th boom was still on in the hero business busi-ness I hed come In yed be hearin that James Ilaltch Aggynaldood been applnted foorthclass pastmasther at HootchyKootchy but now th m x ye know iv him hell be on th blotter at th polls station James Ilaitch Aggy naldoo alias Pompydoor Jim charged with carryln con ealed weapons an raysistin an oillcer Pathritism always dies whin ye establish a polic foorce Well said Mr Hennessey Im kind iv sorry fr th laads with th I bowsanarrows Maybe they think theyre pathrites Divvle th bit iv difference it makes what they think so long ns we dont think so said Mr Dooley Its what Father Kelly calls a case iv iiayhem et chew em Thats Latin Hinnissy Unit Un-It manes whats wan mans food Is another an-other mans plzen |