Dooley on War.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 353, 12 February 1903, Page 5

Dooley on War.

Thus"Dnoley"onWar: "Ifthey's wan thing I'm prouder iv thin another in mo past life," said Mr Dooley, " 't is that, whin me eounthry called me to go to th' Spanish war, I was out. I owe me rayspictibility an' me high standin' among me fellow men to th' fact, Hinnissv, that where th' shot an' shell was thickest, I wasn't there. It I had any childer, th' proudest title iv fame, as Hogan says, I cud hand down to thim'd be that T niver see the shores iv Oubia. ' Obrder,' I'd say, ' ye'er pah-pah's life was not entirely free from crime. He bad his triflln' fault", was something iv an embezzler, a little iv a safe blower, an' occasionally a murderer. He dbrank too much, an* bate ye'er poor mother that now is dead, or wud be if she iver lived. But wan thing he niver did. He niver took a hand in th' war in Oubia. There ar-re no dents on his armor plate.' I'd have Congress sthrike medals f r th' absentee hayroee : 'To Martin Dooley, f'r not bein' prisint at th' Battle iv Sandego,' or, * In recognition of gallant absence fr'm th' Battle iv Manilla. Sweet an' proper it is to remain at homo f'r a man's eounthry.' Be hiwens, Hinnissy, iv a man's brought up before a Judge on a charge iv larceny, th' Ooort says, ' Anny prevyous convictions ?' 6 No,' says the polisman. e Five years,' says th* Judge. ' But he was a hayro in th' Oubian war.' 'Make it life,'says th' Judge."