m an' pat him on th' back an' say: 'Good-bye,
good-bye, Hinnery. Good-bye, Hans. Guten nobben, oof veedersayin,
me boy. Good luck to ye. Look out f'r that shtep! There ye ar-re.
Be careful iv th' gate. D'ye think ye can get home all right? I'd
go as far as th' car with ye if I had me coat on. Well, good-bye
lanksman. Raymimber me to ye'er brother. Tell him not to f'rget
that little matther. Oh, of coorse, they'se no counthry in th'
wurruld like Germany an' we're uncivilized an' rapacyous an' will
get our heads knocked off if we go into a fight. Good-bye, mein
frind.' An' whin ye'd shut th' dure on him, ye'd say: 'Well, what
d'ye think iv that?'"

Prince Henry's Reception

"That Prince Hinnery seems to be havin' a good time," said Mr.
Hennessy.

"He's havin' th' time iv his life," said Mr. Dooley. "Not since
th' Hohnezollern fam'ly was founded be wan iv th' ablest burglars
iv th' middle ages has anny prince injyed such a spree as this
wan. Ye see, a prince is a gr-reat man in th' ol' counthry, but
he niver is as gr-reat over there as he is here. Whin he's at
home he's something th' people can't help an' they don't mind him.
He's like an iron lamp post, station'ry, ornymintal, an' useful
to let people know where they are. But whin he comes to this home
iv raypublican simplicity, he's all that th' wurrud prince wud
imply, an' it implies more to us thin to annywan else. I tell ye,
we're givin' him th' best we have in th' shop. We're showin' him
that whativer riv'rince we may feel tow'rd George Wash'nton, it
don't prejudice us again' live princes. Th' princes we hate is
thim that are dead an' harmless. We've rayceived him with open
arms, an' I'll say this f'r him, that f'r a German he's a good
fellow.

"That's as far as I care to go, havin' lived f'r manny years among
th' Germans. I'm not prejudiced again' thim, mind ye. They make
good beer an' good citizens an' mod-rate polismen, an' they are
fond iv their fam'lies an' cheese. But wanst a German, always
Dutch. Ye cudden't make Americans iv thim if ye called thim all
Perkins an' brought thim up in Worcester. A German niver ra-aly
leaves Germany. He takes it with him wheriver he goes. Whin an
Irishman is four miles out at sea he is as much an American as
Presarved Fish. But a German is niver an American excipt whin he
goes back to Germany to see his rilitives. He keeps his own
language, he plays pinochle, he despises th' dhrink iv th'