Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1844-12-07
"LUCKY PETE,

litorial chum, kingsbury few days
since, we dropped into the store Of our
old boy all work, now p. McGuinnIss
Esq, TO say to him his old friend and
patron was an "odd fellow "jas him
SELF Sarah honey, ize aware that
-dozent yces reminder his article n
boot Lucky Pete, written long time
faith before l heard Of him? Well,
that was after being myself, and here
lit is omong the rest Of the Documents.
/" Odd fellow" sure enough, but l tells
Iyc heze after having heart meath his
waistcoat as big as that carried thump-
ling about under your own ugly face.
Just rade this u@.4a Fls1 e So
"Onc pleasant day in 81, while sit
ting in our editorial sanctumin Detroit.
a strapping, dirty, ragged, but merry
eyed Irish boy gave us a call. and pre-
|sentcd the picture Of saucy indcpend-
cnce. After gazing at US some time,
he burst into. a hearty laugh, slapped
his hands on bis side like rooster just
ready to crow, and roared out" Och'
I've st. Patrick's oun luck this time.
Such a blissed counternince, Misther
kingsbury, as covers your head sure
yees wants dirii and I'm the very
boyto make good honest divil to
yecs." ~ Dos
"What is your name Z" afli
"Good luck to me, Pm called af-
Their swatc Saint Pater. s
swell, Peter, have you a char
actcr Z"
"Thc best Of characters ] leA in
Ould Irclund but sure didn't forget
to bring that same wild me
We liked the looks Of Pete, and
though he was genuine vagabond in
appearances we thought it would do no
harm TO try the experiment-and 80
we sent him up stairs 10 be the 'deriI
Of the printing office. There was
striking peculiarly about this he was
always in good i9ck.' When ho
commenced this career with us, he
made about as many mistakes assHandy
Andy but he had an inimitable way
Of turning them over so as to show
their best face, and finally making US
see some capital good luck in them.
Asa specimen, he once by accident
knocked over an open ink keg, and
came running down to our office with
his face cleaning with joy--'Arrah,
now, Misther Kingsbury, I've had tho
good luck this mornin My fnt hit
itself against the ink key, and il run all
over the floor, but" ,ssa ew weHss
fla !+-wat lyon blundcring--''es
But by good iuck it didn't touch
the paper that's piled up--an' If it had.
wouldn't it have been ruined intirclyr
We don't design to tell a series Of
anecdotes Of this singnlarly happy
character our object is rather to re-
fer to him by way Of illustration TO
moral. Whatever happened, -he
drew something good from it. In
what would dishearten others, he saw
only hope. He recognized no clouds
to his sky IL ,0as all sunshine. Con.
scquently he encountered no obstacles
that he could not overcome. snMsasa
That boy, before we left, had be-
come one Of the most valuable hands
in our establishment. BY bis indom-
liable good luck he had learned TO
read and write with US, and finally be-
came our out door business man, on
good wages. lie was ardcntly attach
ed to us, and managed in true Irish
style to get into constant fights on our
account. 1t was owing to bis good
iuck that he didn't have the breath
knocked out Of him in some ofhis man.
ual exercises. He entered our Office
one day laughing, with his eye well
blacked, and some money in his hand.
He handed it to the book keeper, with
the name ola new subscriber. II
struck our car at once, for the person
named was bitter political enemy
We asked Pete how it happened. He
burst into one Of his rich laughs, and
replied.
Il met the by down by the market.
and be talken' ago yees my JEWELL
guy him an argument betwane his
peppers, and he guy me this ornamint
over me Gun. Thin we grappled, and
it was myself that got on the top ofthc
BLACKBOARD. ] jist stated myself COM
fortably, and thin showered the catur
with argimints until he sid enough.
By my darlin good luck. Irasoned the
basic into snhsc rihin,. and thin before