"Well, it's different from a fish-bait," returned Mr. Dooley, "an' it's like this, if I can bate it into the thick head of ye. A lot of people argyfies an' argyfies to decide, as in the prisint instance, whether a man'd rayther shtick his pastin'-brush in his ink-shtand, or if he'd like it betther to be afther dippin' his pen in his pashte-pot."
"Thot," said Mr. Hennessy, "is a foolish question, an' only fools wud argyfy about such a thing as thot."
"That's what makes it a dee-bate," said Mr. Dooley.
Carolyn Wells.
AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS
(In the original)
MARY had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,—
And everywhere that Mary went