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WHY HE STRUCK.

A State capitoj is being built in Austin, and, as a large number of Irish laborers are employed, scenes like the following are of constant recurrence:—^ Mr O' Bafferty, said the Austin recorder, " why did you strike Mr Murphy ?" " Because the dirty spalpeen refused, sorr, to gire me a civil answer to a civil question, sorr." " What was the'civil question you asked him?" "I had heard,' 1 yer honor, from Dinis O'Toole that Murphy had been talkin' about . me, so I said to him, as perlite as I knew how, 'Mister Murphy, ain't yer own brother is .the biggest blackguard in Austin, exceptin' yourself and your other brother, who ran off for horse»stajin some years ago, and your cousin, who is absent at the pinitintiary .?" " And what rude answer did he return to such a civil question?" "Mister Murphy said to me, and in a Very .improper way, sorr, 'Ay course me and me folks are the biggest thaves in ~ Austin, prisint company excepted.' So I said, Murphy, you are* another,' and struck-him wid me fist."

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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4480, 15 May 1883, Page 3

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WHY HE STRUCK. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4480, 15 May 1883, Page 3

WHY HE STRUCK. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4480, 15 May 1883, Page 3

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