MR. DOOLEY AGAIN.
; "If tho people knew tliey cutltlcn'fc get away fr'jn each other, J ho says, 'they'd settlo down to -life, just as I detarmineo to like coul smoko whin I found th J collection wasn't bij* enough to put a now chimbley in th*' parish house. I've • aechally got to like it,' he says. 'There ain't anny condition iv human life that's not ondurablo if ye make up yoer mind that ye'vo got' to endure it/ he says. "'The throuble with the rich/ he says, is this, that .whin a rich man has a perfectly nachral scrap with his beloved over breakfast, she stays at home an' does nawthin' but think about it, an' ho goes out an' does nawthin' but think about it, au' that afthernoon they're in their lawyers' office/ he. says. : ' 'But whin a poor gintlcman an* a poor lady fall out, the poor lady puts all her anger into rubbin' th' zinc off th' washboord, an > tli' poor gentlemau aises his bo murdhrin' a "slag pile with a , shovel, an' be th' time comes ' ar-rouu.d he says, to himself, "Well, I've got to go home annyhow, and' it's no use I shud be onhappy because I'm misjudged/' an' he puts a pound in candy into his coat pocket, and goes home an' finds her, standin' at th' dure with a white apron on an' some new rnching around her neck/ he says. > '"I think, said Mr. Dooley to his friend Hinnissy, f if people wanted to be divorced I'd let thim, but I'd give th' parents into th' custody iv the childher. They'd larn thim to behave."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 990, 3 December 1910, Page 11
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273MR. DOOLEY AGAIN. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 990, 3 December 1910, Page 11
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