Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
STORY OF AN IRISH FAMILY.

Take it easy, indeed ~ repeated the pref
ty bride, with a toss other head and a curl
of her lip; '''tis easy to say take IL easy
I'm sure if had thought Mark passionate,
I'd have married Mike!'
"But Mike was so mighty dark" replied
old aunt Alice, with a mysterious Shake of
her head.
"Well so he was but then | might have
had Matthew
"Ah, ah!' laughed old Alice; "he was the
worst bird Of the nest! Look, We can wind
Mark round yer finger, as wind this wors-
ted thread-if veil only take az easy
oh! | wish-I wish had known before
that men were so ill-conlrived! I'd have
died sooner than have married." sobbed ALL
cen, who, to confess the truth, had been so
petted by the ~neighbors on account Of her
beauty, that it would have required a large
portion of love, and IA moderate allowance of
wisdom, to change the village coquetie into
a sober wife. | say a larger portion of love.
"Wit," to quote the old adage, "may win a
man, but uii nerer Kept one ; unless "A woman
cultivate the affections, even more than
knowledge, she will never secure her hus-
bands heart"
40. whist! avourneen ~ said Alice. "Sure
| tould We all along. Mark says |, lis all
fire and tow, but it's out in d minute; Mike
is dark and deep as the bay of Dublin; and
Matthew is all TO the bad entirely You've
got the best Of the three. And ye can man
age him Just as the south wind that's blow
ing now-God bless it manages the this
tle-Jown that's floating through the air
if ye'H take it easy"
At first, Aileen pouted-then she sat down
to her.wheel-was too much out Of temper to
do what she was doing well-broke her
! tbreaA-Ducha1 II from har-tnnl. IN hor
knitting-dropped a stitch-shook her nee
dles-and, OF course, dropped something
more.
"Take it easy" said aunt Alice, looking
at her over her spectacles.
Aileen flung her knitting away, clasped
her arms round her aunt's neck-resting her
head on her bosom-and wept outright.
"Lel's go into the garden, sit under the
old lime tree, and watch the bees that are
near swarming," observed aunt Alice, sand
well talk over yer trouble, avourncen. It's
very sorry I'm to see We taking on so for a
triie, at the first going off. But you'll know
better by'n by, when real troubles come"
Poor Aileen, like ali young people. thought
her troubles were very real. but she held her
peace until, observing the bees more than
usually busy, she mutlered, 81 wonder, aunt,
you don't tell the bees to take il easy"
$50 | would, dear, If / saW them quarrel
hing but they're too wise to quarrel among
themselves, whatever thu do with Curriners."
The old woman paused and then added, |
"sit down here, my child, and listen to what
I'm going to tell ye. We know we'll, avour-
neen, | was lawfully married first by old
Father John, to Richard Mulrany-my hearts
first love he was; Heaven be his bed this
blessed day, and grant we may meet above
the world and its real troubles. Aileen, it
was indeed a trouble to see my brave, young,
handsome husband, dragged out of the blue
waters of the Shannon; 10 find that, when |
called, he could not answer; when | wept,
he could not comfort; that my cheek rested
for hours on his lips, and he did not kiss it,"
Fourscore and five had passed over the
head of this woman; and her age was as
beautiful, according to its beauty, as had
been her youth. She had been married three
times; yet her eyes filled with tears at the
remembrance OF the love and sorrow of her
early days, and it was some lime before she
could continue.
"WelI, dear, Richard and | had some lit
lie tiff and | said more than | ought 10 have
said. And it was by the same token, a fine
midsummer morning. ] strayed 10 the end
of cur garden; picked up a shining snail :
and as | looked at the snail, | remembered
! HON lit luSA lllln-ohilllltl bd1f L q put Juol
such a snail between two plates, and sat for
an hour; then raising the plate with the fore
finger of my left hand crossed over the fore
finger of my right hand and then, as true as
day, when | lifted the plate the thing had
marked as purity an r and a piece OF as beau
tiful an Nj as the school-master himsel could
write upon the plate and then | cried 10 re-
member how glad was then, and how sad
now, and at last | cried myself to Sleep
Alanna machree! | was little more than a
child-not all ont sixteen. Well, dear, in
my dreams, | suppose | must call it, | saw
the beautlfullest fairy, (the Lord save MS !!
the very handsomest Of the good people thai
ever the eyes Of woman looked upon-a lit
tie deeshy dowshy craythur, footing its way
all round the blossoms of a snow-white lilly
now twisting round upon the very top of he
tiny toe; then, as if she was joining hand,
round, down the middle, and up again, to tn,
tune of The Rakes of Mallow'-"
''The Rakes of Mallow !" exclaimed All
leen.
1.-The Rakes of Mallow,' repeated Alice
Soiemnly IL heard ii as plainly as | hear tn,
rising march q the bees at this blessed mi
mute. Well. of a student, she made a spring
and stood upright as a dart upon the greeI
crown in the midst of the flower, and pushed
!, back her ringleis, and settled her dress, at
pocket looking glass not so big as a midge'.
wing then all in a minute she looked at me
and said, 4 don't like the sight of a wet eye
what ails ye, young woman e.
"Well. to be sure, my heart came to M
lips; but | had too much manners not to an.
r swer the great lady. And, Madam says ]
my eyes would be dry, though not as brigtf
!, as yer honors, il it wasn't for my husband
my lady, who wants to have a way and
will of his own"
Its the way with all the men, my owl
husband in the bargain says the queen, 40
she was no less ''and there's no use in igh
ting for upper hands," says the queen. 10
both the law and the prophets are against "
in that, and if it comes to open war; say.
the queen. I'VE get the worst of IL; il Won