Disserations by Mr. Dooley (1906) - Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt

THE CARNEGIE-HOMER
CONTROVERSY
""TTT'S turr'ble th' way me frind Andhrew Carnaygie
has been jumpin' on Homer," said Mr.
JL Dooley.
"What Homer?" asked Mr. Hennessy.
" Homer, th' pote," said Mr. Dooley.
" Has Andhrew been roastin' him?" asked Mr.
Hennessy.
" He has," said Mr. Dooley.
" He's been givin'
it to him good. It's all up with Homer. No wan will
print his stuff anny more. He'll be goin' round with
a pome undher his ar'rm
paper, thryin' to sell it.
fr'm newspaper to news-
'
They'se a man wants to
see ye,' says th' office boy. 'What's he like?' says
th' iditor.
'
He's an ol' bald-headed man, with long
whiskers an' dhressed in a table-cloth. I think he's
blind, Pr he was led in be a dog on a sthring,' says
< Tell
he.
<
Oh, it's on'y ol' Homer,' says th' iditor.
him I'm busy,' he says. Carnaygie has busted him.
People will talk about him fr'm now on as th' fellow
that Carnaygie threw into th' fire.
" 'Twill be a hard blow to Hogan.
I niver r-read
annything that Homer wrote, but Hogan an' th' ol'
fellow was gr-reat frinds. I got an idee that Homer
ain't anny too well off. -He niver knew annything
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