Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-01-13

at those seats OF industry, wu'hs TUG u'"n' '"' WV
hour has arrived, when they may retire from the
presence Of their task masters, and bctake them
selves 10 the scenes of merriment, had now chmed'
and the little community. which but moment be-
fore rcsounLed with the clatter Of the throstle, aud
the roaring of the waterfall, hushed in silence
Our venerated friend of the Patriot had already !
flushed his last bowl Of hot coffee and wended his
way homewards--the fire crackled upon the hearth
and as we sat by it in old arm chair, which the
Villagers assured us descended in a regular line
from one of tho followers of Roger Williams,
we fell, Involuntary into profound sleep from
which we would not have awakened but for the
plantve notes of some in an adjacent apart
ment which ran thus:
"Soep you or wake you, lady bright
Sing Megcn-oh Megen-Ee
Now IS the fest time for flight.
Sing Megen-oh o! Megen-Ee
Beneath the window Of your tower
A boat waits to set YOU free [;
Sing Mcgen-oh Oh Megen-Ee
There was melancholy melody in the strain.
which awoke US from our lethargy, anu called
forth those feelings OF curiosity which too often
prompt us to pry into the affairs OF Others, with
than once, to use familiar phrase, has immersed as
in " hot paier.'
But mans curiosity canoot always be controlled.
and we hastened to the place from whence the notes
proceeded, and to our utter astonishment discovered
| young man probably about the aye OF twenty
leaning over an oaken couch, q which reclined
damsel, whose ruddy countenance and squallid
| 4 & ola xuh,
attend to the official Iuties OF the kitchen, aud who
are by the moderns den nominated Ladies. not OF the
bsdchamber, but of the kitchen department.
In one hand she held one of those instruments of
ingenuity, which the world are well acquainted
with, and which, when properly applied, tend to
cleanse those useful vessels which decorate the clo-
set, aud which, il we were disposed to indulge in
the vulgar, we should call plates and Platters
The signing aud melancholy swan, who poured
| his plaintive lays over the lump Of mortal loveh.
ness. Was linea descendant from the illustrious ia
mily Of the O'Dorreghty's, who Aourished early in
the sixteenth century, as principal sfooms to the
NcDousuls, OConners and McFlas. He was u
"rum chicken" as the cockney would say; and
when he found that the plu,ntive notes he
chaunted TO his ruddy checked Mogsey, would not
awake her from the embraces of the dull God, he
exclaimed, no: I" in his peculiarly classical and
technical language" but in the language oI hi'
dear native isle, "Och, Mosgy o. wezle, arnt
been after chanting swate lays to ye and yen no
r rouse bit and lie hanged TO you, an So with Ans
E ter ODorreshty 10 the kirk and be married! On
upon ye, ys baggage, or by the Pipers OF auid fa
ther Luke, IN De after knocking ye into a cooke
/ BAT, that's wnat will, Mistress Mosgy O'Tweczl
istress O'Dor. eighty that will be-ye baggage
Il Upon hearing summons like this, Moggy M WEI
t zle, the ruddy checked creature that was, opene
her dear eyes, and perce,ving that MIR. O'Dorres
y ~ was hanging over her couch Of bitterness, al
'r dressed h'm in her peculiar ldion, and babe h
re te gone she wonld pay hun for his insolence,
n ,hus dr.ns to intrude iuto the room OF the lady
r. TIE kitchen, who had been bonored with the con
to dtnce OF The principal host!ers IN old Ireland.
- O'Dorroghty did not seem to relish the languai
ne and about to expo SITUATE with the niuid Of
al heart, and TO protest against her cruelty, when
lorely creature spread upon his lace the implemt
Sc, which she had so long and 20 firmly asped in h
Is sinister hand.
Tie Love now took fight, reason resumed its emp,
IN aud Mr.. . ODorreghty, unable TO cuntroul his
u- cry passions any longer, commenced a battery
ne on the aid Of - Mid Lothian" and would as
Iis- sand, have given her dacent bastng,' had he
ON been interrupted by humsne gentleman, who
portuney rushed into the apartment with bt
in Of hot cofee-seizeJ O'Dorreghty by the h
rts aud exclaimed in his peculiarly classical ard te
EN- meal language" By all fire lock, let the Il
in. alone Mr.. O'Dorreghty, and mind ye, that he '
can lays his hands upon woman, il be the off
to ol tenderness and love, Is william whom il W
,.- base aatiery to call a coward. And sir, you 81
we fiuj that deferceless woman never shall be in
pom ted when this arm Is capable Of defending her
rted aud, sir, / will bare my bosom to the storm
war;" aud sooner perish than behold" heav
,ect first best gift 10 man--wo.nan lovely woman"
IDLY treated by her superior lords and masters.