The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-09-13
Mickey NaaFoGaey.

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Mickey Naafo1aey.
Was rather bad boy. He was;
much given to night brawling, and
other gregarious pas.imes. In oac of
these shindies, Mickey got. injured in
the head with an axc.helve, and That
so dangerously that his life was des.
paired of.
At the suggestion oftWiddy Donol.
~, Mickey sent for @ priest to prepare
"tolr long Journey, i "a. i,
'"Aiickcy, you have .fqeu,a very
wicked,~man,'' said Father ,O'Toole
after listening to detail of Mr.. Ma
loneys ex2loits-'so very wicked
that it is almost sin to grant you alb
solution. Have you never done
single good action g..
" Nivcr, you rcvere,1ce-hold did
- converted Jew, the muurthcrin'
hathen."
"Converted a Jcw-satisfy me that
you did this aid the church will no
longer hesitate about discharging your
cnormitics. How was it done my song"
Listen and will tell you. Well.
you see | and Larry Blake went n
fishing once in the Mississippi, oppo.
site New Orleans, and while we were
sated in the boat Jew makes his ap.
! .ReeSranee iii .. skif in. front ofns,, we
invited him to cast anchor and he did
SO. lie then got out bait AMI line and
threw out for bite, and by jabbers he
got one. A cat fish seized his line,
aud with such forco MS to jerk the
hathcn overheard. 40 save, his life
plunged in after, and for while it
was pull catfish, pull MaIoncy. AT
last got up to tho old. siuner and
sased MIN by tho hair, just as.ho was
going down for the third time"
And what then did you do 2"
VI asked him, suysi do you: believe
in the Virgin and he said .sMoses
forbid, l do not At that poked,
him under the water again for the mat.
ter 4 minute or two, when | riz him
up again and asked him, says do you
believe in the Virgin, and he said,
again Moses forbid, dosh not and /
dipped him under once more. and
I kept him there till he was as blue
about the, gills as al oyster, when |
gave himauother hist and asked him
40 You believe il the Virgin ?" and
he said Moses is'wrong / does"
And what did YOU say then 2"
| IL seplied die penitent, you old
tFate, and save your soul while the
luck is on you; and suiting the action
to word, ljust let go my hould to spit
| on my hand, and Eo Went to the bot.
tom like stone"
Whether this sort Of conversation
secured Mickey absolution we cannot
say until %e see Bob Holmes, to
whom VIC are Indebted for Mickev's
history. =.
Observation-Disclosures has once civ
en-. s.Paii! or pleasure is remembered
long, and recurrcd to often as we pass
down the journey of lie to the grey
hairs and solitudes Of our last year
Love has been to every one the source
of both. Every ono has treasured
away on the sacred pages Of memory
n thousand little incidents, ever to be
revfaled:in timo, to which, rs to some
fascinating fiction, it returns, whenever
a gloomy, or an idle, .unsocifl hour
calls up the musing spirit-and turns
tho mind upon the past. Life, re.
viewed through the mist Of by gone
years, seems rather curious wrought
hctIon, or a feverish dream, than n
stern reality. We arc surrounded by
mementoS Of the affection of friends,
bpt these friends themselves are gone.
We remember the council Of isdom,
the sage instructions Of experience, by
which our minds are formed, and a
direction given to the current OF our
thoughts nnd habits, but the lips from
whence they flowed have long been
mute rs the still valley where they
lie mouldering. We have,dauced and
sung with the. gay and, giddy, snd
been enrapturcd at the trilling voice
and kkiinAdling eye Of beauty, but we
are alone. The visions have passed
from us. In one grave yard /. did lin
other there are little hiIlocks. and
white stones bearing remember
,tames, and this is all is left to US
But it Isl samong the melancholy ruins
OF the past that we gather The, richest
stores for future. 1t is there we learn
how very vain are earthly hopes
how heeting ear thly friends how frail
even the strongest chords Of affection.
1t IS there;w learn to prepare for an.
other state Of being
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YANKEE. We Americans have n
strange mode Of salutation,. When
friend meets friend in the street, he5
extends his hand and asks, show do