Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-06-09

vas hiih IaSbhcI. w ell, allcT resting
for while he began again, and he puts
his shoulder to the work in airnest.
but still the room was no fuller at all at
al.
Och bad luck to me- says the divil,
but the likes ofthis never seen,' asys he,
far and near, up and down, the dickens a
room l ever KEN across afore,' says he, Il
coil l'nt cram it while cook would be
crammi' turkey, till now, and here am
losing my whole day, and / with such a
power o work on my hands yit and this
room no fuller than if began FIVE minits
ago.
'Py O.. It'll IL vas spahtu-, Iv seen
the hape OF guineas in the middle of the
fiure growing littler and littler every mint
and at last wOr disappearing for all the
world like corn in the hopper of mill.
'Ho! hoP says Ould Nick, SIS that the
way wild you,' says he-and with that he
ran over to the hape of goold, and what
would YOU think, but it was runnin' down
through a great big hole in the furc that
the Colonel made through the ceilin' in
the room below-and that was the work
he waa at afther he left the divil, though
he purtended he was only waitin, for him
in his parlor, and there the divil, when he
looked down through the whole in the
flure, seen the Colonel, not content with
the two rooms full of guineas, but with a
big shovel throwing them into closet a
one side O. him, as fast as they fell down.
SO putin his head through the hole he
called down to the Colonel
'Hillo! neighbour says he.
'Ihe Colonel looked up and grew as
white as a sheet when he seen he was found
out, and the red eyes starin' down at him
through the hole.
'Musha, bad luck to your impudence =
says Ould Nick SIS it sthrivin' to chatc
me you are ? says he, you villain 7
% forgive me this wanst,' said the G OIL
onel, and upon the honor of "a gentleman
iii never--.'
whist whist! you rogue said the
divil. 'Im not angry with you at all at
all says but like you the betther bekase
you're so cute-lave off shaving yourself
ther > says he-you have goold enough for
this time, and whenever you want more
you have only to say the word, and it shall
be yours at command
So, with that, the divil and he parted
for that time, and myself doesn't know
whether they used to meet afther or not but
the Colonel never wonted money anyhow,
but went on prosperous in the world
and, as the saying is, if he took the dirt
ont of the road, it did turn to money wild
him; and SO, in coorse O. time, he bought
great estates, and was great man intirely
not grearer in Ireland, troth.'
Fearing here digression on landed in
terest, l interrupted him 70 ask how he and
the fend settled their accounts at last?-
'Oh, Sir, you'll hear that in good time
Sure enough its terrible, and wonderful it
is at the ind, and mighty improvin--glo-
ry be to GodP
Is that what you say? said I in sur
prise, because wicked and deluded man
lost his soul to the tempter?'
'Oh, the Lord forbid, your Honor-but
don't be impatient and you'll hear ALL
They say, at last, after many years of
prosperity, the ould Colonel got stricken
in yea S, and he began to have misgiv-
ings in his conscience tor his wicked do
inss, and his heart was heavy as the fear
of death KEN upon hin-and sure enough,
while he had such mounful thoughts, the
divil KEN to him ana towlI him he should
go wild him.
well, to be sure, the old man was
frekened, but he plncked up his courage
and his cuteness and towld the divil, in a
bantherin' way, jokin' like, that he had
particular business thin, that he was goin'
to party, and hoped an ould friend would
him that away
'Well,' said l, laughing at the put-off
of going to the party, the devil, of course
would take no excuse, and carried him off
in flash of fre?'
90 no, Sir answered the man in some
thing of a reproving, or at least offended
that's the finish, 1 know very well
of many story such as we're talking of
but that's not the way of this, which is
truth, every word what I tell you-s,'
| beg your pardon for the Interruption
said l.
mo offence in life, Sir said the vener-
able chronicler, who was now deep in his
story, and would not be stopped.
We'll, Sir, the divil said he'd call the
next day, and that he must be ready-and
sure enough in the evenin' he KEN to him
and when the Colonel seen him he remind
ed him of his bargain that as long as he
wasn't obleeged to go.
'That's thrue, says the divil
Pm glad you're as good as your word
any how says the Colonel
/ never bruk my word yit, says the
ould chap, cooking up his horns consait-
edly--' honor bright says he.
Well, then, says the Colonel build
me mill down there by the river says he
and have it finished by tomorrow morn
in
Your will is my pleasure says the
Ould Nick, and the Colonel wint to bed
quite aisy in his mind.
But jeseeN m,achree, sure the first thing
heerd the next mornin' was, that the whole
country round was running to see fine
bran new mill, that was on the river side,
where the evening before, not q thing at
all at all but rushes was standin,' and all.
Of coorse, wonderin' what brought it there
and some sayin twas not luck, and manv