Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — AN UNHYPHENATED EXIT [ARTICLE]

AN UNHYPHENATED EXIT

(To Patrick O’Brien of Momence, Illinois, aviator in the Canadian air service, whom the German empire was unable to retain after half a dozen Hun airmen had been lost in capturing him.) Shame on ye, Pat O'Brien! ’Twas a mean trick ye did— Ye xyint and left the kaiser flat And divil a wurrud we s’id! ’Twill break O’Leary’s trustin' heart To think a man named Pat Would give a dear old friend of his The Irish, slip like that! We know about vour monkeyshines. Faith, and it’s common chat The rows ye raised among the clouds— • ’Twas mean—’twa s all o’ that! Ye had a hod filled up wid bombs And let. the contints fall. And niver had the sinse to yell, “Look out below!’’ at all. And whin the Germans put ye in That private railroad car Ye didn’t say a wurrud o' thanks— Ungrateful man ye are! For whin the. willin’ porter Took wan minute on his job Ye wint and smashed the windy glass, And out ye wint, be gob! mt i Ye didn’t even stop to tell Von Hindenburg good-by, Or talk on how ye liked the place, An’ this an’ -that, or why The Irish don't appreciate The man lie's workin’ for Ye stuck your dudeen in your phiz And sashayed out the door! i Ye fooled the German soldiers Wid the goose-step, -we suppose, And waved them all a bold salute Wid a hand forninst yer nose, A sausage underneath your arm An’ on your hip a brick— Oh, bucko! ’Twas an Irish And unhyphenated trick! .—Roland Rathbone in the Clinton (Iowa) Herald.