The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-09-06
The DooLEY FAMILY REUNION.
1t Run Well Till the Saw Came il
BetWeen.

1t Run Well Till the Saw Came in
Between.
"Why aren't you out attending the
| reunion of the DoOley family?" Mr.. Nc
kenna asked the philosopher.
Trims no relations to me-" Mr..
| Dooley answered. Trims farmer Doc
| leys. No wan Nv our family liver lived
in tn country. We live in tn city,
where they burn gas an have a polls
| ioorce to get on to. We're no farmers,
dlvvle tn bit. We belong to the indus
threat classes. Thin must be tn Fer
managh Dooleys, poor lot, Jawn, an
! always on good terms with tn lanlord,
bad cess to thim says l. We're fir m
| ROscommon. They'se a Dooley family
| in Wexford an wan near Ballybone
that belonged to tn constabulary. l
met him but wanst. Twas at an ivic-
| ton, an though he didn't know me, /
! inthrajooced mesilf be landin' him back
| iv tn ear with a bouldher tn size iv
| ye'er two fists together. He didn't know
me afterwards, ayether.
I'VE niver had but wan reunion iv
! tn Dooley family, an that was tin
years ago. Me cousin Felix's boy, Alloy
! sius-him that afterwards wint to
| New York an got good job dhrivln'
| a carredge fr tn captain iv a polls
| station; he was full iv poethry an
| things, an he come aroun' wan night
! an says he: Dye know he says,
lWuu De IN mite ~ a good thing fr
| tn Dooleys to have a reunion, he says
We ought to come together. he says,
an show the people iv this wa-ard, he
| says, how sthrong we are, he says
Ye might do it betther, me buck says
| ], 'shoVelin' Stag at tn mills, | says.
But anyhow, ii yeer mind set on it,
| SO ahead, l says, an II attend 20
havln tn polls there, says, fr |
have dhrag at tn station
"Well, he sint out letthers TO all TIL
| itOscOmmOn Dooleys, an on a Saturdah
night we come together in q rinted han
an hid tn reunion. Twas great sport
f'r awhile. Some Nv us hadn't spoke
frindly to each other FIR twinty years,
an we set around an toll stories ~
Roscommon an its green fields, an tn
stirabout pot that was niver filled, an
tn blue sky overhead an tn Doggy
ground undherfoot Which Doolsy was
it that hamsthrung tn cowsY Mike
Dooley's Pat Nav such thing; twas
Pat Dooley's Mike-I name Pat Doc
ley's Mikes Pat, FIR it's with us as with
tn rist iv our people. Ye take tn
Dutchman he has as nanny names to
give to his childher as they Sc nails in
his boots, but an Irishman has tn pick
iv ony a few. / knowed a man be tn
pick iv Clancy-a man firm Kildare. He
had fifteen childher, an whln tn las
come come he says; 'Doole,y, dye happen to
know amy saintsH None iv thin
thrades here says L. 'Why?' says l.
'They'se new kid at tn house he
says, an, be me troth, I've run out iv
all tn saints l knew, an If somewan
don't come to me assistance I'll have to
turn tn child out on tn wurruld with
out tn rag iv a name to his back, he
says.
But 1 was tellin We about tn re-
union. They was lashins iV drink an
story-tellin' an Felix's boy Aloysius
histed banner he had made with
Dooley aboo' painted on it. But afther
tn night got along some iv US begun to
raymimber that most iv us hadn't been
frinds FIR long. Mrs. Morgan Dooley
she that was Molly Dooley before she
married Morgan, she turns to me an
says she: 'Tis sthrange they let in
that Hogan woman she says-that
Hogan woman, Jawn, bein' tn wife iv
her husbands brother. She heerd her
say it an she says: I'd have we to un-
dherstand that no wan liver come out
v Roscommon that cud hold up their
heads with tn Hogans,' she says. It's
not f'r tn likes iv ye to slandher
family that's iv tn landed ginthry Nv
ireland. an FIR two pins I'd hit We
poke in tn eye,' she says. If 1t hadn I
been FIR me bein bechune thin they'd
have been throuble, FIR they was good
frinds wanst. What is it tn good book
says about woman scorned? Faith,
I've forgotten.
Thin me uncle Mike come in, as
polisman. Felix Dooley was maxim a
speech on tn vartues Nv tn family.
nh Dooleys,' says he, can stand be-
fure all tn wurruld, an no man can
say ought agin ayether their honor or
their integrity says he. 'Th man
that's THROWN that at ye,' says me
uncle Mike, stole saw firm me in tn
year sivinty-five. Felix paid no atten-
ton to me uncle Mike, but whit on;
We point proudly to tn motto, 'Dooley
aboo-Dooley f'river.' TIL saw aboo,
says Felix, stood beside Rid Hugh
O'Neill, an whin he cut aft his hand
He didn't cut If aft with amy wan
Uses saw says me uncle Mike.
'They'se an old sayin', whit on Felix.
An OF saw says me uncle Mike. But
twas new whin we stole it,
Now look here says Aloyslus. |
This thing has gone far enough. 'Tis |
an outrage that this here man sh'd |
come here FIR to insult tn head iv tn |
family TIL head iv what family |
says Morgan Dooley, jumpin' up as hot |
as fire. I'm tn head iv tn family he |
says, be right iv histhry.' 'Ye'er an oil |
cow says me uncle Mike. 'Th' back iv |
me hand an tn sowl iv me fut to all |
~ yez,' he says. L quit ye,' he says. |
'Ye'er all Twin here undher assumed |
Names an he wint out followed be |
Morgan Dooley with chair in each |
hand.
well, they wasn't two Dooleys in tn
halpd speak whin tn meetin broke
up, an tn Lork knows, but l don't to
this day, who's tn head iv tn Dooley
family. All 1 know is that | had wan
tn mex morning ."-Chicago Post