Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-11-13
E II III o R O u s.
Paddy and the Bear.

ONCE upOU tiulos my uoiA'"6S' "H"
it's not long ago, an lrishman. and o
friend Of my own, took it into his head
that he would leave his master dear, AMI
try better country. | do not mean to
say that better country there is under
the whole face Of heaven; but times are
bad and many dacent man thinks he
might gel better bit and sup by emigra
ton than he can get in his own dear
county. His master sent for him, and
he says mighty sharp, swell, Thady,
what's this hear about yeu?"
"Och, my jewd, you can hear nothing
about me but myself, and I'm not speak.
ing"
"But you are going away. Thady-
you are going away, they say"
"You may say that, sir, for | am two
stones lighter than when came to
you"
"But what's taking you away. Tha'
dyT
"Just my own feet and legs, dear"
"You are very short with me this NOR
ming, Thady."
"Why, then, ! think I'm as long as l
wa. yesterday. But, master dear. I'm
going to Amerikay, 10 get bit O. land
for myself and Judy, and where we'll get
praties for the children just for the dig.
sing, and have sweet little cabin Of our
own, far away in the woods, and the ne.
yer morsel O. rint to pay!"
But, Thady, are you not afraid OF
the black amoor wild Indians that live in
the woodsl They will come down some
dark night and tomahawk you'll"
"Afraid! is it an Irishman a(raid?-
They ,omahawk me! There's not a man
among them all could play long bullets
with my brother Phelemy, and show me
o. them could touch me at the first 6s.
teen! But sure, master dear, | would
not know one O. them from Adam when
seen them."
80, Thady, they are Withholding
black rascals and you had better stay
al home than venture among then."
"Stay at home, is it? Arrah, my dear
poor Thady has no home to go to; fol
the landlord put poor Judy out for three
and sixpence, and now I'll stay no lon
ger here. Och! sweet Mulligan, swee,
Mulligan, and the days O. my youth
when / was fed like fighting. cock, and
Judy was my darling. and the world was
light and easy on US! 1t was then tha
we had the great big higgins O. broth fo
dinner, instead o. the Grabbed, pock
marked praties that the pigs in Mullin
"a wouldn't eat, and buttermilk as thir
as crane o. thartar! Farewell, master
and may God Almighty be wild yees all
So over the salt seas poor Thady went
and Judy, that never had been on th
rowling ocean before, now saw nothing
at all for weeks but the green sea ant
blue sky. Och, but it's myself coul,
discourse about the sea and the sky! :
how the whales. and the dolphins, ant
the sharks, rowle in the waters; and th
pretty stars and the moon, and the sun
look down upon the coral beds at tn
bottom o. the sea; and when the win'
begins to blaw like mad, and the wave
go up and then 60 down, and the sail
are torn into shrsds with a noise lik
thunder, and the masts go by the board
and there's ten feet water in the hold
and the ship is sucked down into tn
bubbling sea-; and, just before it goe
down, men, women, and children SEN
up one dreadful scream that rises abov
the blast, and pierces the very gate Q
Heavsnl There's description for you!
But Thady arrived safe in Quebec
with Judy, and the children, and then o
they trudged into woods, to try and get
bit Of land to settle on. Some 1ris
psighbors helped him 10 get up cabi
TO shelter the family, and he says to one
"Where do them blackamoor negur In
dians live, that heerd about in our ow
countryi"
"Och. beyant there in the woods"
"And Corny, tell me. have you ey.
seen any O. them!"
"Ssen theml To be sure Ihave, there
scores O. them in the woods, black, U,
" devils they are!'
(" And what makes them black, Co
nyi Sure, could't the dirty cfeatur,
keep themselves Christian white!'
''lt's the climate, they say; but VIII
the climate is, myself doesn't know
Something they rub on them when the
.The dirty hsaths brutes! But sui
they must have the stuff plenty amor
them--I wish we had some Of II, and
would rub little Barney with il for Z
expsriment."
From that day forward, Thady vi
ever eager % see . blacksm0ot India
.f.