An Oil City Irishman, having signed the pledge, was charged soon afterward with having |got drunk. “ ’Twas absent-minded-ness,” said Pat, “ and a habit I have of talkin’ wid meself. I sod to meself, sez I, ‘ Fat, cum in an’ have a dhrink.’ * No, zer,' eez I, < I've sworn off.' * Thin I’ll dhrink alone,' sez I to meself. * An’ I’ll wait for ye outside,’ sez I. An’ whin myself cam out, faith an’ he was dhiunk.” As a street car conductor took a rural passenger’s money the other day, he called it on agricultural fair, —“Agents’ Herald,”
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2249, 13 May 1881, Page 3
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