Judge — December 1889 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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AS NEAR AS HE COULD COME TO IT. PROFESSOR OF CHARACTER-IN-HANDWRITING (answering a communi cation) —"* My dear sir: Your chirography gives evidence of a maaly self. assertiveness, a rugged masculinity, and great ability to act as a leader of the masses. It strikes me that you would make either a great statesman or a great soldier, “Yours truly, "To E, Hocksox, Esq.” “A, FAIKER, Shure Micky Doctan and his brotiier Patsy wereas bilve one an: shes Se ays in a ayladre ihe Jemokocins And whin Mick, B was Lavin? the counthry Patsy bought his farrum av him for foive shilline? Fhix the ceatur thought dasa {pine bargain he was makin. Arawbacks te it edad! The first to call eachin was be host, of ‘constable é ran wid holes: in him laike a iean house that Mick had malewa *s 4 A) Some more av the Bhoys paid Then Comey Cassidy looked in, the next mornin} to ask forhis pigs that Micky had borrowed the loan ay, unbeltnown te him. Begor! the spalpeen Knocked vintilators in the farrum-house wid Patsy: Teak and danced on his shirt{ront Like Donnybrook for he tuk him for that thafe o”the wurrld Mick! Vv, Tima visit thenoightafther and Test their cyarrds at the doore, Begorra! whin Patsy < sought av em he thought hed de Sither lavin’ the dithrick. But, somehow, a the lastmoment, AN IRISH STORY WITH A MORAL,