Quite Time, Too
“ Halloa, Paddy, how is it you’re not working at your job just now ? “ Oi struck.” “ What did you strike for ?” "Well, it was loike this. Wan wake ago cum to-morrow night Oi was put to wurrk amongst a gang av Oitalians, all bilermakers loike nieself. Well, begerra, ivery mother’s son av them Dagoes ate about a half dizen big anyans ivery dinner, an’ all the rist ov the day the odour av them anyans got inta me eyes, so that instead av driving bolts Oid be thumpin’ me fingers. Well, the climax came wan afternoon whin me eyes were that full av water that instead av puttin’ a bolt in a hole Oi put me finger in, an the fellow on the inside av the boiler put a washer over the ind av it an hit it sich a clip, begorra, that they had to take the biler apart to git the hole away from around me finger. It was thin Oi struck.”
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 21 May 1915, Page 3
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166Quite Time, Too Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 21 May 1915, Page 3
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