Show ONCE PATRIOTS WERE FOOLED had struck a lazy neighborhood and nobody would order him to stop hla his work in the opinion of friends and enemies alike patrick was the laziest white man that ever drew breath it was one cf the anomalies of patricks existence that the only firm with whom bom he could hold a job was a coal company whose strenuous methods sometimes compelled him to bo be out I 1 delivering coal at seven in the morning certain of the companas comp anys customers and their neighbors resented that inhuman activity almost as much as patrick did the first rattling of coal down the iron chute banished sleep and irate aristocrats who could afford tho the luxury of a morning snooze popped their heads out of the window anti and ordered pa patrick trick to postpone his labors labore until a more reasonable hour patrick never disregarded that command backed up by a united neighborhood bo he be could afford to be lazy po so he curled up on the drivers seat and slept until the street was asir as ir fortified b by previous experience patrick accepted a recent order for early service with comparative cheerfulness ful ness ile he reported at the coal yard in good time and at seven the first of coal invoke echoes in a quiet residential street having fired his first shot shit patrick closed the chute and awaited the he usual command it e fild eld ld not come ile he let hy fly another volley still ng no tousled heads no angry voices another and still another and an other broke the stillness patrick look looked edd despairingly despal rh gly at the lifeless windows for the tha love of mike alike he groaned aint any of youse people got spunk enough to order me to stop shoveling coal at seven in the morning T apparently nobody had bad patrick had bad at last struck a neighborhood which while arousing resentment corn com banded hla his deepest respect the entire population was too lazy to get up and bid him stop working and his labors proceeded without the customary respite |