January 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



179 



Hoolihan on the *'Case of Caasey 



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"C" 



\.\SEY," said Hoolihan, "is tlui wan av 



il uthers that 



ives me a paain 



I" 



'What has he done?" I inquired. 

 "Listen, me bye, av iver a men was thrained an' given ivery 

 chance thot mon was Caasey." 

 "You mean the hose inspector of that name?" 



''Listen Me Bye." 



"Av thot naame, an' maany uthers as well. But it wuz as 

 Caasey yez knew him. Phwat the assoshiated Boord av Over- 

 writers' done fer him couldn't be missured be words. To staart 

 at the beginnin' we sint him down to the nagur rubber gathurers 

 in Brazzil." 



"What?" 



"Shure thing, we pit an insphector on the ground so thot 

 Paraa rubber shud be Paraa rubber an' not be mixed wid cow- 

 chew or Ballatha or anny av thim infarior gooms. We had a 

 laabel to pit an ivery caake. an' charged thim tin cints a laabel, 

 glory be !" 



"Glory be indeed !" I gasped. 



"Not only thot, we laabeled the barls of soolpfur, av whitening, 

 an' the kigs av litharge, an' we pit insphectors in ivery mill thot 

 made thim vaarious stutifs," said Hoolihan with huge satisfaction. 



"It must have cost your association a pretty penny." 



"Divil a cint. The wans inspicted paay the cost, an' paay for 

 laabels too. We give our consint to ahl av thim to do business 

 an' they paay us fur it. We saay Nicholos Suarez the Rubber 

 King av the Madeira makes rale Paraa rubber, see our label an 

 his biscuits, yez kin buy av him av yu plaze (tin cints a biscuit, 

 an' $500 insphectors' expinse, ahl fer us). 



"But, but what does j'our inspector on a rubber estate do?" 

 /'Do, is ut? He shows thim nagurs how to do. He watches 

 thim pit the cups an the threes. Thin he seals up the cans av 

 milk an' allows thim to be oapened only in his prisince. He 

 annylizes the palm nuts to see av they have the requisut pro- 

 poartions av sillicate av oxigin, bicarbonate av elasticum, an' 

 Lithium av Wangaroo. He lists the hate av the smoak wid a 

 thermomater. He taakes an observaation av the direction av 



the wind, an' the amount av preciptous moisture in the air. Thin 

 the nagur does the rist. Thin, and oanly thin we atflx our 

 laabel." 



"Wonderful; what does the label say?" 



"Just this!" was the prideful answer. 



Fine Para Rubber 

 Prepared under Supervision of 

 Ovcrwriters' Laboratories, Inc. 

 No. 13,333. 



''What does that Inc. mean ?" was my query. 



"Incloosive to be sure. Includes inspiction for paay, laabel 

 for paay, an' unlimited taxation an' misriprisintation." 



"It certainly seems very thorough," said I hesitatingly. 



"Not half as thorough as we plan," was the enthusiastic reply; 

 "we were oanly laabelling 20,000,000 articles in connixion av fire 

 risks an' we naded more scoape." 



"But—" 



"Niver mind the but, it's about Caasey I am talking. He wint 

 through ahl av the schools av inspiction, wild rubber in Brazil, 

 ahl av the compounds in th' vaarious mills, an' thin he inspicted 

 the makin' av laabeled fire hoase in th' rubber facthries." 



"Yes?" 



"And phwat do yez think he done?" 



"Give it up." 



"After larnin' ahl he cud av compounds an' processes he trew 

 up his job an' staarted a facthery av his own an' is makin' fire 

 hoase." 





"He Shows Thim Nagxjrs How To Do." 



"And now he will have to be inspected and labelled himself," 

 I laughed. 

 Hoolihan shook his head sadly. 



