Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — Grand Operd. [ARTICLE]

Grand Operd.

“Yez needn’t be taken on sleh airs, Missus Mulvaney, jist beycuz yer man's bin made a jigger on ’th perleesh force. Me man went t’ th’ gran’ oppbra 'n sthyle.” “Gran’ opphra nuttin’. It 'ud be takin’ a month’s whages whurkin’ loike yer man doos, Missus O’Hoolihan, if get dough ernuff t’ go t’ gran' opphra!” “But ’e wlnt, jhust th’ same, yez desateful creathur.. ’E tauld me Ivrythin’ consarnin* th’ perphoriuence.” - “Oh, did ’e, yez bhloomin’ parpharikatur? An’ how did ’e injhoy th’ songs in th’ Dago linguage?” “Dago? It wnz good Amerfkhan Ooirish. begorrah, that they spuk, fur me man tould me sum o’ the jhokes.” “Jhokes?” “Yis,' jhokes, yez baythen. They alluz hez jhokes whin th’ gran’ opphra cums V th’ Cap-tal Shqnare The-a-ter.” —Detroit Free Press.