Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-03

wan little case ye'd oblige us be decidin'
afore we go to the Four Ceorts-if ye'd be
so good" 49,,
give me every pleasure. What's the case.
pray"
The butcher put Until Dams hands the
sixty sovereigns to hold, an then axed him
to step forrid to the windy an view the
haste that was hangin there.
Dan. he stepped forrid an looked 1t up
an down. an handled It, an, why, / see
nothins wrong with this animal says Dan.
1T isn't that" says the butcher, but the
queskin 1 want to put to. We Is, What Kind
" an animal is that p
in round as if he'd like to see the man
that dared say otherwise-"a very good
animal, indeed
"Yis, but" says the butcher. what I
maint to AK is. What animal is it? Wheth-
err Is 1t hog, dog or jackass?
Come now says Dan says he, rs 1t
wantin TO make funi' me, yez are?''
me varae i NV we aren:I we'd Be long sorry
to try the like. We're in dead earnest. an
there's that bait Nv 80 poun a side as to
what animal it is
Now, now" Dan says, lookin' from the
haste to the butcher an from the butcher
back to the haste again. Il know yez must
be maxim fun"
The divii a morsel O. fun says the
butcher.
the carcass, there's no man or his mother
from here to Japan an back again but
knows that animal?"
No man or his mother, exceptin' an
ignorant gommacaan," says the butcher.
| An we've got that gonnraachan There he
is says he, !ndycatin' the stranger
He'll not give in till what the animal is at
! all. at all, an were goin' to make him
pay sass for teachin' him. It's left to you
sir, now, to tell him"
Well, We are gommachan." says Dan
| says he. turnin' an takin' why iv the
] stranger. "Ye're a gommachan, an with
| all respects, a highly ignorant gommachan
an richly desarve to lose yer money If We
| don't know a pig when ye see 1t. That
animal. sir. Is a pig!'
The stranger shuk the dust Nv Dublin
| from his heels that night; an 1t was him
| was the thankful man to Dan O'Connell
an happy man when he counted down
| thirty goold sovereigns on his own table
at home to his wife the very next night.
| But a long sight ADLER an better 1t was
| that Dan wrought on the OXFORD profess
sors. maxim hares Nv them. an outwittin'
| them SO that the people aren't done laugh
! ing at them till this day.
see, Ii was this way: After our great
| c --ege in Maynooth was built an started
the big colleges in England. purticklarly
/ OXFORD, was never tired Nv THROWN all
| sorts " ugly disparagements on our col
/ lege, an they sayed 1t would never come
to nothin'. Well, Maynooth was maybe
| thirty years or more going when one sum
1 mer there was some iv the Maynooth pro-
fessors was over to see London; an as
| they wor on the groun' they dropped in to
see OXFORD College. The laist honor the
| OXFORD professors could do was to give
| a dinner in their honor-and they did that
A roustin fine spread 1t was, With the best
an dearest of all aitables an dhrinkables-
mats an wines; an all the most larned
| gentlemen In London. too, was invited to
| the dinner. But when the drink begun to
go to the heads Nv the Engiisihmen they
| began braggin' Nv OXFORD College. an
castin' up to the Aaynooth professors that
they hadn't nothin' In Ireland to touch up
| stan up for their country an their col
| lege, an tell them back again that there
| was more larnin' In the little finger Nv any
| wan Maynooth man than in the whole
| in OXFORD. Wan word borrowed another
| an argument grew hot. till the end Nv II
| was the Maynooth professors riz to their
| feet an threw down q challenge for the
| Ave picked men, the most larned In knowi-
| edgable, IN OXFORD College, to enter inti
| contest with the professors iv Maynoott
an then they left the room. Well, to be
| sure, the Maynooth men had no sooner
| thrown down this challenge than they wol
| sorry for II. bekase they knew well there
/ was men In OXFORD College that banged
1 the wurrr an couldn't be puzzled In any
| wan subject auonder the sun, no matter
what it was An more be the same token
! We may be perfectly saftin the OXFORD
men was dancin' with delight. an lost nc
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day an date for sendin' their men over &c
/ the contest.
All the larned men Nv Maynooth began
| studyin' night. an day: but they felt In q
pickle over it, An the nearer the day
day dhrew the worse they felt. The whole
| thing was advertised over the three king.
| doms. an throughout France an livery
1 other larned country; an the whole wurrl
was waitin' to hear Nv the result w the
great contest. The mornfn' afore the bis
day the most harmed an ablest OF all the
| Maynooth professors 60 up from the table
him. IT'S no 40. says ne. TITS all nc
use! We aren't the matches Tor the Ok
foord men. an wen be disgracsd. an our
/ college an country Ill be disgraced, In
i the face Nv the wurrlr' An livery other
professor flung his book from him. too. an
! give In: It's no use. It's ne uset Wsfrs