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Show MRS. MALONE AND THE CENSOR. When Mrs. Malone got a letter from Pat, She started to read it aloud in her flat. "Dear Mary,." it 'itf.'Ji, 'I can't tell you much, I'm somewhere in. Fierce, and - i'i fighting the Dutch.;, I'm choking with news that I'd like to relate, ; But it's little a soldier's permitted t' ' state. ' Do ye mind Red McPhee well he fell iu a ditch An' busted an arm, but I can't tell you which. "An' Paddy O'Hara was caught in a flame An' -rescued by Faith, I can't tell you his name. Last night. I woke up wid a terrible pain, . I thought for a. while it would drive me insane; . Oh, the sufferin' I had was the most dreadful t' bear; I'm sorry my dear, but I can't tell you where. The doctor he gave me a pill, but 1 1 .find J It's . contrary to rules t' disclose here the kind. .... "I've been t' the dentist an' had a tooth out, I'm. sorry to leave you so shrouded in doubt, But the best I can say is that one tooth is gone, The censor won't let, me inform you which one. I met a young fellow who knows ye right well, .- An' ye know him, too, but his name 1 can't tell. He's Irish, red-headed, an' there with the blarney, His folks once knew your folks back home in Killarney." "By gorry," said Mrs. Malone in her flat, "It's hard to make slnse out av wrlt- in' like that." But I'll give him as good as he sends, that I will." ' i z: So she went right to work with her inkwell and quill, And she wrote: "I suppose ye're dead eager for hews, You'know when you left we were buy-in' buy-in' the shoes; , Well, the baby has come, an' we're doin' well; : It's a Oh. but that's something they won't let me tell." . |