MELTING CHEER.
A friend met a cheerful Irish citizen who had plainly suffered some hard knocks.
“Well, Pat, how are you getting along now?” he inquired. “Oh, Oi’m hard up yet; but Oi have a fine job in Honnolulee, and fare paid. Oi sail to-morry.” “Sure, man, you’ll never be able to work there. The temperature is a 100 in the shade.” Pat had endured too much cheerfully to be discouraged. “Well,” he replied, hopefully, “Oi’ll not be worrukin in th’ shade all th’ toime.” >
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 618, 22 March 1921, Page 3
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85MELTING CHEER. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 618, 22 March 1921, Page 3
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