Democratic banner., 1849-02-05

Saiu, you nave QOne 10 me Q KIM service,
and though you see me here poor as the
poorest, yet | know that which will make
you rich. Come behind the forge and 1
will let you into a secret
Terence O'SuIlivan wondered at the
mans language, but he followed him be-
hind the forge; and'there the weary sold
Ter told him his secret. Terence was
somewhat sceptical, but promised to make
the trial. fl when at length he did so, to his
very great amazement, every thing turned
as the solder predicted. After the SOL
dier had told his secret, he shook the hand
of the smith, and walking away westward,
was never again heard of in Kilmallock.
Terence's fame soon spread far and wide,
and he broke every horse for twenty miles
round. The only complaint was, that he
broke the horses so completely, that tLey
had no spirit after his whisper. Certain it.
is, that when they first heard it, they trem-
bled from head to hoof, a cold sweat stood
all over THAR bodies, and it was said that
they never were good for either the chase
or the race afterwards. And it become a
saying in the country when, as sometimes
happened to be the case, a rafting and RI
citing young bachelor became a quiet & So
Der sort of man after his marriage, but he
had endured the iniiiction of Terence o.
S~ullivan's whisper.
When his fame was all the greatest, it
came to pass, that one Of the finest young
fellows ia the parish, or seven parishes be-
yond it, a lad of the name of Jerry Ryan,
fell in love with as pretty a girl as you
would wish to see, Mary Mules hy, whose
father had for thirty years kept the village
school, and was now dead. Why Jerry
Ryan fell in love with Mary Mulcahy, l
cannot undertake 10 say; but 1 suppose it
was for the same reason that a young man
falls in love with q young woman all the
world over. 1t was his luck; and when it
is q mans luck to fall in love, he may as
we'll not make any hustle about it, for do it
he must.
Bat as somebody says { and a clever bo-
dy he was-l venture to say he was a gen.
tleman Of Gods own making:)
= The course Of true love never did run smooth
And the rough spot in that love was, that
Mary Mulcahy's mother was second cousin
to Jerry Ryan's aunt; which is a degree of
relationship, that prevents matrimony in the
church Of Rome. So Jerry Ryan went to
the priest about it; and as bad luck would
have it, lie went to him at a time when he
happened TO be cross, by reason of dis
pute he had had that morning with his niece.
There never is q worse time to ask a favor
from anybody, than just such a time-and
Jerry was accordingly refused.
GO, get ye gone out of my house, ye
good-for-nothIng fellow said DR.. Delany,
was the priests name-'get out Of
my house, and hope it will be q long day
before | see youth it again. What, do you
q t"S ! UiCoA IuC So" VI oOu uhN Nv
canons of the church? to fly in the face Of
the holy deeretals, to violate the orders Of
sacred councils, and marry you to Mary
Mulcahy, who is second cousin to your own
born aunt? Jerry Ryan, Jerry Ryan, it is
with sorrow | say of your mothers son,
who was a decent woman, God rest her soul
you are not much better than a herctic.'
All this and much more he said; and he
roared and he bawled SO loud, that he got
himself into a towering passion, and Jerry
was faint to leave the house; which he did,
looking melancholy enough, for he loved
the girl too we'll to understand why her be-
ing second cousin to his aunt should hia-
der her from being his wife.
While he was walking down tho road,
sorrowfnlly sauntering along, the Whisper
er rode by.
'What is it ais you,' said he, Jerry Ry-
that you look as down in the mouth as
a bull that has lost his hornsP'
So Jerry told him the particulars of his
interview with the priest. q wisli,' said