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Show THE PEACEABLE RACE. (T. A. Daly in the Catholic Standard.) "Who says that the Irish are fighters be birth?" Says little Dan Crone. "Faix, there's not a more peaceable race on th' earth. If ye l'ave 'em alone. "Tim O'Toole? Well, I grant ye now. there is a lad That's beset wid the curse o' pugnacity bad. But he's jist th' exciption that's provln' the rule: And' what lse could ye ask from a lad like O-Toole? Shure, he's sich a big mountain o' muscle mus-cle and bone. Sizin' up to the heft o' some siventeen stone. That ht fair aggravates iv'ry other bould buck To be wishful to hand him a couple for luck, , An' to prove that there's others as clever a.s him. Now, I ask ye, suppose ye was husky as Tim. Don't you think 'twould be right ye should take a delight In defindin' yer title an' testin' vcr mifflit?" Says little Dan Crone. "Is it me? Arrah! now it is jokin' ye are. But I bid ye be careful an' not go too far. , Sluire, it's true I'm no more nor the height o' yer waist, , But there's manny a bigger has sampled a taste j O' the knuckles that's bunched in this lit- j tie ould fisht. Where's the dog wouldn't "fight whin his j tail gets a twisht? Do I hunt for truble. Mayhap, now. j it's thrue . ' Upon certain occasions that's jisht what i what I do. J Shure, how else would they know I'm that stunted' an' small i I'd the heart of a man in 'me body at J -all?" ! . SayfMlttle Dan Crone. "Well. thin, keep yer opinion. 'Tis little j it's worth," i Says little Dan Crone. j "Faix, we're jisht the most peaceable race J on th' earth, i If ye l'ave us alone." j |