The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-03
MIR. DooLEY MoBALIzEs.
He Feels Weak When He Sees the
Number of the Year Changed.
Chicago Post.

tDHlcdSO GOSl.
. tbs sthrange thing this here New
Years business said Mr. DoOley. Here
| am to-day, an tbs ninety-sivin. / clane
up tn glasses, count tn cash an get ready
to close up tn shop FIR tn night Suddenly
/ hear a whistle blow on a tug, a bell r-rings
an Somewan comes out iv Schwartzmeis-
ters an fires a REVOLVER. An I've passed
without KNOWN it firm wan year to an
other. CORY, but / feel a lone place in me
stomach ivry time I pick up a paper an
see tn number. iv tn year changed-an' I
ought to be used to it, FIR I've done it nanny
a time-more thin / want to say. Whin
nineteen hundherd comes in I'm goin' to be
scared to death, till it turns out like other
years, tn same OF r-run -iv good an bad
luck no money, OF frinds dyin' new inimies
comm up an tn rig'lar daily PROCESSION
Glory be, I'm afraid firm an unknown
terror to look into ninety-eight. but if L
knew tn things that are sure to happen,
barrin me religion, I'd go down to tn
bridge an fall into tn r-river and break
me neck. wud So
All tn years is akel an tn same" said
Mr.. Hennessy sententiously. ''All tn years
''Thrue FIR ye," said Mr. Dooley, ''yet tits
reglar lenths. We're all like me frind
OBrien that had a contract on tn dhrain-
soft mud. but he sthruek nawthin' but tn
dhrift. But he kept pluggin' away. Twill
s soft h. laer he fo says Tn dhggff th
way through He rayfused to listen. He
knew he'd come to thu mud tn mex day or
tn mex an so he whit on an on an finlly
he got through an made good, clane job
iv it. He looked back on his wurruk an
says he: I knowed it was dhrift all TIL
time, but if I'd let meSiIf think that what
was ahead was har-rd as what was be-
hind I'd thrun up tn job an broke me
contract. he says. 1 niver borry throuble,
he says, but I've had to borry money to
pay me men So it is with u.s. We've all
taken a contract to dig through tn glacial
dhrift. We know its glacial dhrift to TIL
come asy wan iv these days. So we go on,
with pick an shovel, till tn, wurruk is done
an we lay it down gladly
Everybody in the Archy road has the or
binary engineering terms ON the end of his
tongue and the figure appealed to Mr. Hen
Messy who bleated his. acknowledgment.
I'VE have wan thing comm this year
we've not had befure,' he said.
whats that?" Mr.. Dooley asked.
9TH cillybration iv tn ninety-eight," said
'.Yeer fright" said Mr.. DooIey "An'
twill be tn gran thing to see all tn good
la-ads marchin down Sackville sthreet
singin' Who fears to speak iv ninety-eight,
who bushes at tn Names? No wan, an
speak iv it. 'twud be dangerous an I'm
thinkin tn more public it is tn less it
amounts to. 1 heerd Hogan glorifyin' over
somethin. he r-read in tn pa-aDer about all
tn Scotchies in tn English ARMY that
fightin' haythens somewhere in BooIgahria
bein' Irishmin. They was Caseys an
Meaneys and HeaIys in tn lot an tn la-ad
with bullets in his legs that sat on rock
an piped whin TIL others was chargin up
tn hill was firm me own county-which is
not in Scotland. Well. says 1, what iv it?'
/ says. 'Th' wurruld is full iv fightin irish
min I<says. 'They's ODonrells, in Spain
an Taafes in Austhria an Lynches in Chile
an, Pat MacMahon was wanst Prisidint
full iv Irishmin fightin'. who? The inimies
iv England / says Dye think it's amy
thing to be proud iv FIR man named
Healy to be found dead with TIL legs iv him
nakid an a little hootchy-kootchy plaid
skirt an a wcman's hat on him2' 1 says.
'Wud We like to be laid out like a bally
dancer an have number eight thousan' an
three, Rie Scotch Highlanders.',. on tn
coffin plate?. l says, Goo wan with ye,' I
says. An he was humilyated befure tn
crowd. TIL place FIR Irishmin to die is tn
place they was bor-rn or in tn Sixth
wa-ard or tn like iv that"
But yeer goin' over in tn spring." asked
Mr.. HenneSSy.
''Tll go over" said Mr.. Dooley impressive
ly, sif / have to walk livery fut iv tn way;
an like as not will.