The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-10-31


Use Of rest, and the sun was low ! deiermin'
ed to leap over the picket fence and With my |
wallet for pillow, take nap on the dry |
warm grass.
Paddys Story about The Depil dnd the
Money Chest" Come, Pai-lell US the |
story Of the Devil that tried to steal your
uncle's money chest.
ats myself'Il do that same, sir. You
see, my uncle, Barney ODermot WIS edl' ,
Gated as good Catholic as iyer kissed the
Pope's glea, toe, or dhrauk whskeyin hon
nor of St. PATRICK. But twinty years Of
his life he had lived in the Alst Indies,
where he met a Protestant wIdder with |
torchln of ,ln thousand pounds, and bull
terrier, that was the saucciest thing alive.
So my uncle praised the wilder and the
widder's dog, though he couldn't bear the
craihur for the life Of him, it was SIGH q
hateful bas,e but next to herself and her
money, barrin' my uncle Barney, the wild
der liked the terrier dog, bekase why why
bekase the dog always slept top of her
money chist and many's the time the faith.
full crathur had druv away ihaves from the
house. So my uncle Barney patted the
dog on the head and popped the question TO
the wilder. But she said she'd not be at.
Their having him at all, at all, unless he'd
turn prothestant aud damn the Pope. My
uncle thought Of absoluiIon, and then OF the
widder--of purgaiory, and then OF the Wild
der's money-and he ken TO the eoncloo.
SIGN shat he'd ray Their have the wilder than
dissolution, mud that he was wiling to run
his chance of pdrgatory, If he could get her
money. SO be walked straight up TO her.
and says he, " It's bargain, Mrs. Bolton
the dlylI burn the Pope, and the pralsis, for
rascally, decaiyin' blaggards, that they are
So YOU see, they war married right att
and ITS many a year that he lived with her
when she took il into her head all at onst
to die of a favor, and left my uncle with.
! over and the masther OF a snug forchln, and
the bull tarrler to boot. Ailher that, my
uncle KEN home from the lUdles back to ouId
/ Ireland, and bought nice country safe and
/ kIpt horses and hounds and the like o that.
1 BY aud By Father McCOrkan, and the Gu
rate Of the parish, got his eyes upon my 10
! cIe's good dinners, aud his Cnlst OF gold
and ahn he found my uncle bad turued
I prothcstaDt, he said
/" An its a vile hareiic you've become,
Mr. O'Dermo, sure now, # lis isn't TO
the lhrue faith you return widIn a wake "a
SICK you'l become, and thin die you will f!
I An If We die doul absoIuton from me, ITS
anuthemy marrynahy III pronounce over
your body, instead Of giyin' II dacent CHRIS.
tan burial y
j" US, 20 abou, yor business, for med
dhns baggard Of prast that ye arel lis
no absoluuon al all III BE- wanting from
1 you any how, ye oUd black ram r : said
my uncle Barney,
"The praist WANT his ways an lis
thrue for We, my uncle Barney was taken
sick the next day and then Ao though; OF
what the pralst had tould nun, and he be.
T gar TO reient--he thought be wud dle-aud
/ thin il was sure, be regritted he'd turned
pro,hestan, for the wldder's money and
asked the pralst, for absoluuon.
g. le wicked sinner said Father Nc.
Corkan, lis no absolu,ion at all I'll give
sc to day unless ye give up to Holy Moth.
er, the Church, VERY cin' Of the gold 10 the
ould oak chist, that ye got Of the beretc
woman ye married
"0ch thunder aud praties said my IN
Gle, and ia it robbing me ye would, OF I'VE
~ thing, ye cowld hearted prarstl It's alb
solution sure, could get much chaper iron
, the Pope himself, though | damned MA
whn turned protestant
% Very WE'LL said Father McCorkan
do as ye phase, Sir. O'Dcrnot; but lie
me warn ye, that ooe Of these nights To,
drgil will come and carry of your chlst o
gold--for is his own money sure, and h
Int II TO the widder to buy your lmmorta
/ sowl RecoilecI what ! say TO you, Mr.
! ODermot.' ."
Well, my uncle got well, and though
no more Of absolullon or praisis or the llk
Of that sort, but continued to ate and drinI
aud hunt foxes, Tho cid oak chisi stoor
10 little room adjoining where my uncl
5it pt--d-lA AIt Jun AEttlei SIC lDp VI II
as usual in a high box tina, enclosed IT,
= Oae day my uncle Barney had been TO
/, fox hunt and had been from home ralhe
later than usual, so that be didn't get t
, slapo very early. About twelve O'Clock a
night, be heard dyil of a hubbabaloo i
. tho inner room where the chs. was. III
bull terrier barked, and he heard somebod
cry Och, muriher m8rther is It ate N
up We would, We vlIIainous dog Whist, now
! be quiet ye haste" My uncle slipped OF
MS trowsaloons, and ran into the room
when he stumbled over somebody that la,
3 on the floor, dtshguiSed like deril ri
horRs and TAFT on and the bull terrie
biting aud pulling at BIN. As my uncl
opened the door, the make beldire dlviI ros
. up and attempted to nuke his escape; an
as he went out Of the door, the bull terne
Jumped at him, and bit monsirous b.
, pase Of flesh out Of his safe of honor--an
thin the fellow ran away bowling, to b
sure, as though it was raay the d,Dit, an
no sham.
"Well, my uncle Barney O'Dermot live