"Mr Dooley” on Aviation.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2722, 29 January 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

"Mr Dooley” on Aviation.

“D’ye think Ave’ll all he flyin’ soon?” asked Mr. IJennessy. “Faith, I don’t know,” said Mr Dooley. “Ye niver can tell Avhat this here dhroll little race iv men will do. ■We’ve gone a long Avay. Man can fly now almost as avoll as a hen with a busted wing. But I don't think th’ kind iv flyin’ we’-ll aver do will look much like rale fivin’ to a Avikl goose goin’ south with his fam’ly. If 1 Avas a flyin’ machine man, bumpin’ round in a conthraption made iv steel an’ Avood an’ canvas an’ run be gasoline, an’ called it flyin’, I’d be ashamed to look a goose in th’ face. “What I’m afraid iv is that these here flyin’ machines will make us a joke among th’ bur-rds iv th’ air. Up to this time they looked up to us whin they looked down on us an’ see th’ Avondherful things avc cud do with our feet. But. what’ll they, say ivhin they see we don’t fly anny more gracefully thin they walk? Pr’haps whin they see a flyin’ machine in th’ air they don’t think we’re "flyin’. They think there’s been an explosion in a machine shop.” “Well, annyhow,” said Mr Hennessy. “I’d like to come back a hundherd years fr’m noAV an’ see how it all comes out.” “Ye wild,” said Mr Dooley, “an’ I II bet- yc this, that if ye come back on Mondah two thousand an’ nine, an’ 1 come back on Choosdah, an’ meet Hogan an’ ast him what ye ar-re dom , lie’ll say: ‘.He’s got a good job at a dollar an’ siventy-five a day, wheeUn a barroAV in a -flyin’ machine foundhry. An’ thin I’ll have to start a liquor fill op again to give ye th’ on’y taste iv ilyin’ ye’ll iver have.”