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Show This Gem of Irish Wit. Lieut. "Andy" Rohan, who was at his best when, on a dull and quiet evening in the headquarters at the old city hall, he gathered about him the night police reporters and told them stories of his youth and Ireland, told this one to his friend, "Matty" White: "When I left Ireland, this mariny a year ago, a lad in brogans and top hat, my mither came to the dock and she wept and wept at my going away. 'Never mind, mither mine,' says I. 'Amerikky is a land o' gold and ap-portunities. ap-portunities. In a year I'll come back to ye rich.' But I didn't. I didn't have annybody to go back to. My mither w-as here keepin' house for us seven lads, and every one of us was travelin" out o' the same station." Chicago Herald. , |