The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-07-13
HOGAN AND MCCORMACK SEE
at PAYS TO ADVERrIHf"

he came across his old friend, Mi
ehael Mccormack, from Boston.
Hello. Mac" yelled Hogan as he
graspcd the hand of his friend and
gave him a "rale ould irish shake.
"Phat in the worruld are yez doiH'
here. The last tonne saw yez was in
Bostin. Man alive, what are We dom
up here | don't know
Sure com up here to work in
the mill" said Mccormack. got
here week ago Tuesduh and hey
beer hayin Il foine tonne az 1t. It's
a CRATE place to spind the summer,
Hogan"
1T is that same" sai9> Tom. Fine
fishin. hunting, boatln, ahd bathin out
on the lake beyant.
ut Is, and foine cumpany at the
theatre" said Mike. II CHANGED to
stroll into IT last week and saw thin
playin' How to Advertise BE COB, |
liked the play and The cumpany very
much. do ye know.
True for ye," chimed in Hogan, 81
saw it mesilf and | laughted till me
sides ached. How did yez loike the
little lady that tried to skin her faith
er of his money!
shes a darlin, Hogan, and she's
only a slip of a girrul, at that. But
she's all to the good Sure she re-
minds me of me daughter, Mary Ann,
she's so cute
Wasn't she the candy whin she
itould her ould father where he got
off? think that wuz in the second
stanZa."
"She was great said Hogan, but
the won that caught me fancy was
the little Frinch Lady that raised the
divil wild the whole bunch Sure |
thought she was rale Frinch at first.
Did yez notice how she wint after the
ould man fer hundred thousand
bucks? Wow!
well sir, Mac, whin the young
squirts wuz tryin' to >do the Guild
man out of his Soap business. | got so
mad to think tibet he didn't see the
trick tibet they was playin on him
tibet | felt like getting right up in me
seat and telling him to his face that
he was an idgiot. But | sezz to me-
silf, seq |, I1f yez heyent enuif brains
to ketch onto it ysrself.-go on and
git stung. But | was so hot under the
collar tibet 1t was a hard job to re-
main calm and peaceful In me seat.
But / did And it's possibly good
thing fer-both us us-thet | did"
What talk hev ye, Hogan, sure ye
know it was only a play and yeZ
shuddent git so excited over it. BE
the Powers, | WIZ as cool as a COO
eumber all the time. | was there to
be Entertained and not to git excited
But, Mccormack, il was iist loike
rale, ! thought it WIZ on the level
and nearly lost control NV mesilf."
"Well now, Hogan, layin' all jokes
aside, | injoyed mesilf every minnit
of the play and was wishin' that it
would last Il cupple av hours longer
but | had to git up early in the morn
in or | would hav stayed to see it
all over agin."
but il is not a continuous per-
Torrance, Mccormack, they ony do 1t
wonct in the aVenin' thin the actors
go home and hey their beef stew
and Scotch and sody. whist now
don't let Sheriff Mooers hear tibet
said that, or he might git on the ram
a
foine company they hev and it will
surely catch ME Wonce week If me
car holds ont over the roads to the
park | hey niver injOyed a play in
me loife, any better than | did the
last on. 1t was so very natarul. AV
course. it was not the proper thing
fer the little lady to trick her father
into Juggling wild so much money, thin
goin' and gittin' married to the young
scallawag that was tryin to bate him.
but sure that is the way of the
wurruld.
But the ould man was too dom
slick fer the kids after al, fer he
knew we'll that it pays to advertise, no
matter if yer goods are rotten and
that is the way he made his money.
So yeZ have to give him credit.
"Well, that's all right in high so
ciety, Mac. and yez mussent pay any
attintion to what they says or duz.
list shut yer eyes and say nothin'. But
there is one thing l don't loike out
there, Mac, they hev English and
Irish in the same cumpany, and they
don't hitch. Whin that tall, lanky
Englishman KEN out wild the slim
well,--he was all right and
played his part well, | can't gainsay
that, but at the same time, felt like
giving him rap on the for'ead wild
a shelalay-iist for Ould 'ang lyme.
Hogan. ef the band had ever
struck up "God Save the King" I'd
NV claned out the house claner than
the ould mans soap suds wud hey
done it. But he wuz a smart ould
spalpeen at tibet. And whin he put
his fut up on the chair and pulled
up his trousers and showed his bare
leg and garter Well sir, l gev him
won look
whisper Mac, they do tell me that
there is lot of fun out there
this week whin they all git UP IN
MABEL'S ROOM and l am goin' to
be there in the front row. =
"There's the one o'clock whistle
and I'm late agn, but it's glad
/ am to see You ami I'll meet yez
agin out at the Lakewood Theatre
whin we Will join the crowd Up in
Mabels Room"
so long, Hogan, I'll join yez at the
party"
w. T. CLARK.