Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-12-04

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DRAeetE.TAt AND pAycocK' Is TAILS.
II promised, my dear Aunt continued
Nelly, when | left you, to tell you every,
thing | saw | little knew what n prom,
isn TINT was when | made II ! hut there,
something 40 mighty qnafe has happened
| ttnlt In this great town, that slio,f
like yolt 10 come 10 u knowledge Of i
it IL so different from what's goii,g Oh i,
poor onld Ireland. haven't mmri, time
fof writing this mouth, 40 ,nu<t tell 1t mn
NJ The far, aud he done witt, it. Do YOU
remember the watching we ,ised to have
when the war wns going on betseist Niss
| Mulvauy Of The big shop, aud Mrs. Tony
Casey of the te,i houac, about the length ot
their gowns ? All the country cried
shame ON Miss Mulvauy, when The lirm
If her trnn.lew Snnday.silk ~rpani,el the
binding Of her shoe, aud then they shout.
ei double +lla,ne on Mira, Tony Casey, all
tile way home from ,nass. when the next
| Sunday her iress touched the heel sure
il served us for conversation NIL the week,
! aud every girl Ia the place letting down
her hcms-ami happy abe, WHO Ind "A
good piece IN the vnthets-and to see the
smile aud the gigle on Miss Mnlvany's
face We all knew, when we saw that,
that shed some out past the common, the
next Sunday ; aud 40 sl,e did, and n cruel
wet Sunday Ii was, aud she IN another
silk, n full iiuuer on the ground behind
and before, aud she too proud to hold it up
aud that little william, Paddy Macgann,
coming up TO her in the civilist way and
asking If he might carry home her tail for
her. Aud then the row there was be.
tween Tony Casey aud his wife, the lit
tie foolish rrayshar, because he refused
her the price of new gown, with which
she wanted to break the heart of that 9th.
er fool Miss Mulvany, by doubling the.
length, aud how Mrs. Casey would not 20
TO mass, because siie couldn't have u lon.
ger tail than Mics Mulvany And sure
yoa mimi, Aunt dear, when all that work
was going Oh, how the fine Priest stood
on the altar, and "Girls and boys" he
sayed--it was after masy---"Girls aud
boys, but especially girls, | had a drame
last night, or indeed to be spanking good
English, It was this morning ! had it, and
| need not tell yon, my little darlings,'
Chat was the kind way he had Of speak.
inp) "that morning drame comes true,
Well, in my drame / was on the Fair
green, aud there was a fine lot Of you, all
looking fresh and gay like a bank Of prim-
roses, aud all sailing about like n forest of
payoooks with tails as long aud as draggled
as Mary Mulvaney has got, and Mrs.
Tony Casey has nat got.'-"No fault of
hers, place your Reverence said Tony.
"tfouId yer tongue, Tony" said the
Priest, "until you're spoken to, and dou't
be a fool when a wise man wins a bat.
tie, he shouldn't brag Of It and its i'll man-
iers you have, to be putting your priest
out in the face Of his congregation
Where was ?"
"'In n forest Of paycocks, your Rever.
ence. squeaked little Paddy Macgann.
That's a fine boy, Paddy, to retnem'
Der wha, your Priest says
"'Your Reverence promised me a pen.
ny the last time | held your horse squeak.
ed Paddy again upon which there was a
great laugh, in which his reverence joined.
1t was mighty sharp of Paddy.
"'Well. girls continued his Reverence.
you were all like paycoks, only some had
longer tails than others, and very proud
you were of them-mighty fine, aud quite
natural showing them off, girls, not 81
one another, but at II another. Well,
there is, as you all know, no accounting
for dreams, for all of a sudden who should
on the green, but the Black Gen.
tlemnn himself! It's downright earnest
I am. saw him as plain as | see you Il
hoofs and horns. there he was and when
you all saw him, Of course you ran away
like hares, and those that had short gowns
got clean off, tight and tidy, but as for
poor Mary Mulvany, and all like her, in
dress | mean, J all he had to do, was to
put his hoof on the gown tails. and they
were done for--pinned for everlasting.
Girls . remember TIE morning dyams
comes trme.t II ye make a vanity of your
gown tails it's a sure sign that the devil
has set his foot on them Now be of ev-
cry one of you, and let me see you next
Sunday All, Aunt dear, the tails were
cut off to the shoe binding. "-NelIy Nov-
Experience.