Ye get to th' Olympian games be suffocation in a
tunnel. Whin ye come to, ye pay four shillin's or a dollar in our
degraded currency, an' stand in th' sun an' look at th' Prince iv Wales.
Th' Prince iv Wales looks at ye, too, but he don't see ye."
"Me frind, th' American ambassadure was there, an' manny iv th' seats iv
larnin' in th' gran' stand was occupied be th' flower iv our seminaries
iv meditation or thought conservatories. I r-read it in th' pa-apers. At
th' time I come in they was recitin' a pome fr'm th' Greek, to a
thoughtful-lookin' young profissor wearin' th' star-spangled banner f'r
a necktie an' smokin' a cigareet. 'Now, boys,' says th' profissor, 'all
together.' 'Rickety, co-ex, co-ex, hullabaloo, bozoo, bozoo, Harvard,'
says th' lads. I was that proud iv me belovid counthry that I wanted to
take off me hat there an' thin an' give th' colledge yell iv th' Ar-
rchey road reform school. But I was resthrained be a frind iv mine that
I met comin' over. He was fr'm Matsachoosetts, an' says he: 'Don't make
a disturbance,' he says. 'We've got to create a fav'rable impression
here,' he says, 'Th' English,' he says, 'niver shows enthusyasm,' he
says. 'Tis regarded as unpolite,' he says. 'If ye yell,' he says,
'they'll think we want to win,' he says, 'an' we didn't come over here
to win,' he says.
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