Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1913 — Diplomacy. [ARTICLE]

Diplomacy.

One day a huge Irish batteryman, stood in the crowd at the sutler’s at Nashville. Presently a little Irishman rushed up, flung his coat on the ground, threw his hat beside it, and, jumping on them, yelled in a high voice, quivering with rage: **Ol wud loike to find th' mon that b’ate up poor Tim Murphy.” The big Irishman tapped his chest. “Ol’m th' ipon,” he bellowed hoarsely. The little Irishman whirled around. “Gee,*’ he piped. “Y« did him dp .’olne."