The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-27
MIR. DOOLEY SAYS goodbye
Leaves Town Because He Is Tired of
Tanner.
Chicago Post.

Chicago Post.
I'm goin' away" said Mr.. Dooley:
he Had been shoeKed NV WA an eieere wre s
I'm goin' away" repeated the philoso-
pher. ''Ye needn't take on so. You an me
amt hitched together with a log chain be
amy means / know how it is. We ali go
through tn same OF game iv havin fits
whin our frinds takes lave. Do we start
FIR thrip to Milwaukee an iviry man We
meet asts veto have a dhrink with him. an
ye'er wife an eight small chidher weeps on
ye'er shoulder OF. ye'er feet-dipindin on
club an tn Saint Vincent de Pauls goes to
tn thTain to see We off an yeer full as
a goat an We quart with tn conductor
whin he comes around to take up yeer
why shud it be so? FIR tn lands sake,
lave me bid We good-by without seeing
grimace on ye'er face as if we was drink
in bitter beer A man can't stand still in
wan place. He makes frinds an tips
glass with thin, an whin he tips NANNY he
grave. But Whin his time comes he goes an
does not look behind him. In tn oil coun-
thry. whin a man got up an shook tn mud
say that tn Other People was bloWin' their
horns f'r him in tn mountains an he had
to lave. An he whit an was glad iv it, an
no man was very sorry afther all. I'd have
it tn same way whin I'm called FIR good. A
crate with me name on it, so l won't be
misdirected a hearse with a lively driver
that can dodge tn cable ca -ars an not spill
me- an thin: 'Good-by; if ye-er liver in tn
neighborhood dhTop in
i've got a right to quit We. Hinnisy,
though ye'er good man an som l. be tn
same token. FIR years an years I've been
standin' behind this counter tellin We
thruths ye'd hear nowhere else-no not in
tn, good book or in tn Lives iv tn Saints.
Why did i do it? TIL Lord only knows
But whin ] git talkin' ] can't stop amy
more thin ii / get started to run down tn
span iv TIL fred bridge. Some iv tn things
I've said was wrong an some was right an
most iv thin was foolish but this much /
hniN RI oil
An what's it come to? What's all tn
histhry an pothry an philosophy I've give
ye an tn ArcheEy road NJ fr all these years;
ar-re maxim money so fast it threatens to
smother thin. Tn vans stud up FIR is
some in Jail an some out iv wurruk I've
an Bill Lorimer and Bath House Jawn an
tn Relief and Aid Society, an Schwartz
meister cuttin' tn price iv pints. I've seen
all kinds Nv onjestice done an all kinds iv
goodness punished. seen civil service an
stud that. But I'll not stand Tanner,
boy, I've lived here f'r thirty-forty year
an paid me taxes an distributed liquor
that didn't have a fight or a headache in
bar'l iv it, but whin they ask me TO live IN
u State run be a country sausage I've got
to quit. I've got to go. A man that knowed
break llD a meetin' where Ab'ram Lincoln
was has no place in tn State Nv Illnye.
Where ar-re We goin'?" asked Mr.. Hen
II dnnaw. To Boolgahria perhaps. Amy
where / won't hear " Tanner"
Hell only last three years"
An how long dye think I'd last if /
stayed here? I'm goin'. Goodbye. ! lave
We to Tanner
"Good-by said Mr.. Hennessy. yen
think betther ~ it. I'll see We again"
''Mebbe.' said Mr.. Dooley. IT'S har-rd
fr me to lave off talkin'. Goodbye"
the philosopher locked the door and turned
out the lights of his place perhaps Tor the
last time.
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