Now
th' first thing we larn th' future Mark Hannas an' Jawn D. Gateses iv
our naytion is waltzin', singin', an' cuttin' pitchers out iv a book.
We'd be much betther teachin' thim th' sthrangle hold, f'r that's what
they need in life."
"I know what'll happen. Ye'll sind Packy to what th' Germans call a
Kindygartin, an' 'tis a good thing f'r Germany, because all a German
knows is what some wan tells him, an' his grajation papers is a certy-
ficate that he don't need to think anny more. But we've inthrajooced it
into this counthry, an' whin I was down seein' if I cud injooce
Rafferry, th' Janitor iv th' Isaac Muggs Grammar School, f'r to vote f'r
Riordan--an' he's goin' to--I dhropped in on Cassidy's daughter, Mary
Ellen, an' see her kindygartnin'. Th' childher was settin' ar-round on
th' flure an' some was moldin' dachshunds out iv mud an' wipin' their
hands on their hair, an' some was carvin' figures iv a goat out iv
paste-board an' some was singin' an' some was sleepin' an' a few was
dancin' an' wan la-ad was pullin' another la-ad's hair. 'Why don't ye
take th' coal shovel to that little barbaryan, Mary Ellen?' says I. 'We
don't believe in corporeal punishment,' says she. 'School shud be made
pleasant f'r th' childher,' she says.
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