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By order of the president . '' `` As I was sayin ' , '' said Flannery , `` th ' prisidint has a great head on him . '' Mike Flannery was the star boarder at Mrs. Muldoon 's , and he deserved to be so considered , for he had boarded with Mrs. Muldoon for years , and was the agent of the Interurban Express Company at Westcote , while Mrs. Muldoon 's other boarders were largely transient . `` Mike , '' said Mrs. Muldoon , one noon , when Mike came for his lunch , `` I know th ' opinion ye have of Dagos , and niver a-one have I took into me house , and I think the same of thim meself -- dirthy things , an ' takin ' the bread away from th ' honest Amercan laborin ' man -- and I would not be thinkin ' of takin ' one t ' board at this day , but would ye tell me this : -- is a Frinchmin a Dago ? '' Flannery raised his knife and laid down the law with it . `` Mrs. Muldoon , mam , '' he said , `` there be two kinds of Frinchmin . There be the respictible Frinchmin , and there be th ' unrespictible Frinchmin .