The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-12-14
Number 33.

er or more fiery and proud than that which
fills tho veins Of the numerous decayed
scionS Of the royal race of the "O'SuIli-
vans" An old gentleman, who lived near
ArdgiIl, is out authors authority for the
following capital illustration of a sort of
pride by no means peculiar 10 Ireland. We
have seen in equslly rampant, and nearly
as ridiculous, in certain parts Of our own
country. When new roads were forming
near Bearhavsn, the old gentleman, who
tells the tale, happened 10 pass by small
party of labourers, just at the dinner hour
all were sitting sociably together, con-
sumlng their humble but warm meal, which
their wives and families had brourht-but
one was sitting apart and alone disconsolatS
on rock.
"How comes it, my honest fellow that
you are not as well provided as your neigh
bours, have you no wife to bring you your
dnner!"
"Troth, then, it is that have wife, and
that's the case as why my dinner is not af.
ter coming"
80 poor woman suppose she is lying
in, or she is sick!'
Cara mush'. not at all, your Honour;
troth she is neither sick, nor sore, nor sor.
y-l'l be bound, master, she is as
big and as brave body as any mans
wife from Bear to Bantry: but I'll tell
you. master, what's the m,tter-she's
lady,"
"A lady-wky, what do 20 aesn by.
lady!"
"Arrs now don't you know-sure, she's
of thick blood, she comes of tho O'Sulli-
vans"
We'll. but lady as she 10, the O'SuIIi
vans must eat-she's not above dining:
she has mouth aAd teeth like ether peo-
pie
'Oh = then it is she that has. Ate-och
then, let Biddy O'SuIivsn alone for that;
better man than ever was, she would ate
out Of house and home and then, sir, she
would break the bank in drinking tau. But
though, sir, she will ate dinner with me
aye, and after me-sbe is nOs the one 10
bring IT 10 poor body that's after working
all the day-,hat would be bringing down
her quality stOmich too much, your hon.
our-by this pipe | hoUld in nv hst, she
would as soon carry Sugar Loaf on her
head, Hungry Hill in her hand, as bring 10
me (and | have been a good man 70 herr my
dinner
This is strange story friend"
"slrange is ih-Why i.'s as true as you
are there
well, but If she don't work or 10 A.
bread, she is surely gOoi wifs st home
she knits your stockings, she uaends, she
makes for yoS."
"Och, the sorrow enc stich-knit my
stockings, wash, mend, make for me -
May never sit under Father Mshony's
knee, or ever see mass, If one hole in my
stockings she ever daVned, OF even one need
e(ul Of thread did she ever ill 10 ssading
or making for me-"
4" 1t would appear, then, that you have a
heavy bargain of this lady-Wife Of yours"
why, what signifies com Plai"ing !.urs
she's mine. and It's The will Of God, aud
that's enough. But hsrkeA your hOHOr.
(and here the poor fellow lowered his voice
to a whisper aud inclined his head towards
my ear, lest any of the royal o'SulIrvsns
should overheard by the powers, if it were
to be done over again, Id sooner 20 on board
a man-of-war, and live under a cat-o'-nine-
tails, than be married to LADY"
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At a shop window in the Strand, there
appears the following notice. Wanted t,co
apprentices who shall be treated as one Of
the family