Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WONDER if it ever occurred to any one to make a careful study of the ordinary Irishman, the kind who builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded...
...Irishman who was engaged to cut ice from a pond, when handed a cross-cut saw to commence operation with, pulled out a penny, and, turning to his comrade, exclaimed, "Now, Pat, fair play; head or tail, who goes below." - Mirror...