The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-05-06
What for ;" seq l.

| an omhadaun fool as was
''TH take care yer gloves sur" sez a third
catching them by the fingers
s.Big.s rn GUNS can't put EN- in my pock-
ct fi1-Sez L
'.Oh, no--that's not the way we do in this
house" sez he
/ Well, thought l, 1 must bear it all for Toms
sake. So followed the first gentlemen, who
beconed myself afther him up stairs on green
carpet that you wouldn't hear the tread ov yer
fut on. So I stuck quite close to him till we
got to the top, and he steps over to door and
fings it open, crying out at the top his voice,
! ''Misther DoughertyH'
J E'What the divil do ye want wild me ~ says I,
in q voice aiqual to his-'didnt We know well
enough that 1 was jist at yer heels!'
| But be niver minded me, an walked into the
room another step or two, an roars out 'Misther
! Doughertyi twice as loud before.
! ''Bad luck to yer impotence, ye thievin' ras
! cal sez lis it fer this We made me lave my
! stick below? Ye were afeard I'd give ye the
length and breadth of it; don't ye see me here
We spalpeen ;? sez l, threatenin' my fist at him;
but he vas only laughin' at me. Ia mint out
comes Squire Beamton-
! ''Ye're heartily welcome, sur SCI he; Ihope
nothing is the matter wild ye."
''Thank We kindly, sur-nOt much, only the
liberty this jintleman TUX wild my name" sez /
| But the Squire only laughed, an takin' me
under bis brough me forninst whole par
eel Of ladies', who ver stufin' their prashk Gems
down their throsts to smother the laugh the min
it they saw myself.
'.saryent, genteels, sez I, in rale quality FORM
bowling down TO the ground
| This is Misther Dougherty,' sez his honor,
takin' my hand an bowin again along wild me-
s'God save all here sez 1, not forgetting my
manners, to give my third and last bow bat the
/ quality only nodded to myself, which thought
mighty impoite. But in troth, thought to my
self, the crathers are not to be blamed Whin they
niver Tux lessons from the removed and celebra-
| ted Paul Dougherty, teacher Of dancing and all
! other kinds of music.
/ So the squire made me sit down, and it was
! then to be sure that / admired the beautiful pic
thers an tapots full of flowers, and carpets but
/ the divl a sign Of dinner myself saw, tho
thought the very CUTS would fall out ov me with
hunger. oh! Tom, Tom, sis TO myself, isn't
{ this purity threatment I'm suffering for your
! sake, hut there was no use in complaining and
I turned to look at the beautiful windee curtains
at the top ov which two sarpints were peeping
out, foremost one another, ready to prounce
( down upon US, when hears the same fellow
that brought me up stairs roar out dinner on the
table, and upon looking about devil sign q
table vas there but what had been whipped a.
way by enchantmcnt, and there stood the din
ner in white table cloth as beautiful as a corps
at a wake.
! All the ladies and gentlemen did presently
stood up, ov course so did myself
..Mis,her Dougherty?" sez the Squire
''Sir sez l.
CIVIL vou take Mrs. Beamton by the hand 90
sez he
What call have to take her hand, sir sez
l. cant yer's that's her husband, and has the
best right to it take it, sir.
.sDo, sir if you please, seq he, .for we are on
ly goin to dinner, only ask you to lead her TO
a chair
'.Deed, faith scz l. BARN to obligc you for
a short time, tits contrary to my religion TO do
the likes to any mans wife;' and my own alive
but they fell to laughin' as l TUX Mrs. Beamton
by the hand and led her to the table, where eve
ry one was taking places.
'sAIstber Dougherty,' sez the Squire, will
you sit beside me?''
sFaith, then, that I will, sir sez l.
"What shall help you to ," sez he.
"Some of that pork, sir, sez l.
ssIts not pork sez he, sits ham,
'.Wel, ham is pork, SIR sez /; for be gor
didn't like them to have all the laughin' to them
selves.
s.You'r right sir, sez he, sending me plate
full ov it, well bolstered in cabbage, and faith
stuck into it like a hungry hawk.
'.Misther Dougherty, SCI the Squire
'sSur,' sez l, laying down my knife and fori
in my plate and looking at his honor.
81 hope you are helped to your liking.
s'Mighty well, tha-but devil a plate had
for the thieven william in the red breeches hat
stolen away my plate, while was speaking q
his honor .Oh murther, murther! seZ L &
myself, isn't this fine threatment I'm bearin,
| for YOUR sake Tom bnt before | could sa.
: another word black faced fellow ov them clap
ped a dish full of chopped nettles before me, ant
. ! L seeing | could do no betther, began botilng
into me, when he runs back and whips it up
saying
..Oh, by your leave, the mistress wants som
spinach" and off he scampered with 1t.