Mary Ellen is not a German, Hinnissy."
"Well, afther they have larned in school what they ar-re licked f'r
larnin' in th' back yard--that is squashin' mud with their hands--
they're conducted up through a channel iv free an' beautiful thought
till they're r-ready f'r colledge. Mamma packs a few doylies an' tidies
into son's bag, an' some silver to be used in case iv throuble with th'
landlord, an' th' la-ad throts off to th' siminary. If he's not sthrong
enough to look f'r high honors as a middle weight pugilist he goes into
th' thought departmint. Th' prisidint takes him into a Turkish room,
gives him a cigareet an' says: 'Me dear boy, what special branch iv
larnin' wud ye like to have studied f'r ye be our compitint profissors?
We have a chair iv Beauty an' wan iv Puns an' wan iv Pothry on th'
Changin' Hues iv the Settin' Sun, an' wan on Platonic Love, an' wan on
Nonsense Rhymes, an' wan on Sweet Thoughts, an' wan on How Green Grows
th' Grass, an' wan on' th' Relation iv Ice to th' Greek Idee iv God,' he
says. 'This is all ye'll need to equip ye f'r th' perfect life, onless,'
he says, 'ye intind bein' a dintist, in which case,' he says, 'we won't
think much iv ye, but we have a good school where ye can larn that
disgraceful thrade,' he says.
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