Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-01-23
"That's the truth, sez I. Sure but a

s''Tis glad am to hear you say SO
Pether. ayich, seq she, and then her fac
turned as red as a billed lobster"
"Misthress Mulrooney, sez l, sarious
lly, Misthress Mulrooney, I'm sorry to per.
saive thatye have been paintin' yer cheek:
wild the whisky bottle. 'Tis ashamed
am ay ye, Mislhress Mulroony."
Troth Pether, said she, wouldn'l
bemane meself by such sthricks. Twas
the thoughts of the purity children thai
quite upset me, an US SO lonesome"
:'Och, militia murther, Biddy. sez L
wild ye have me burglarious stale another
mons family 2"
" Where 'ud be the necessity @ that,
Pether, jewel, sez she, in saGt, coaxin'
way. There's fine broth Of boy, an
orin Shamus by name, for sure Father
Hcnnessy chrsted him that same. You'd
be PLACED to have him wild US, wouldn' t
yc, Pether 20
Faix, 1 dunno, sez I, raiEin' mighty
quare under the combined effects av the
POtheen and the soothing spache of Mis-
thress Mulroony.''
{" Take another dhrop of sperits, Pc
the, sez she /; and thin Biddy set down
aside me, and poured out one glass and
thin another, and all the while the potheen
kept disappearing till my sinces got con-
fused, and two Misthresses Mulroonys
KEN up and Kissed me wid two mouths,
and she took candles in her hands and led
me out sY Two rooms and up square set
av double steps, where laid how'd of
foor ballisterS, and across two passiges,
and through two more doors, and thin
1 thnmbed somehow or other into
two beds. while two Biddy Mulroonys
tucked in two hapes av ciowthes wild two
sets Of hands,
Well, Misther Urbin, whin I awoke
next morning wild the misery in my head :,
who should l see but Biddy. sitting at the
bed fat, wid an ugly lun OF boy by her
side
"'Tis dhraming I am, SEE to meself."
But there Blddy sat, sthroking down
tha c1orse thalch on the ugly gascoons
head, aud sez she to me-
pether, avich, seq she, this is Sha>
nus
Oh, sez l." !ookin' bothered intirely,
as inlaie au' truth [ was, ''thaL's Snam-
US, is it ?''
Shsmus. my son, says she, why don't
ye be aI:Eer spakinS to yer father ?"
" Tnc top OF the mornlng to ye, ould
daddy, sea the ugly little rapscallion."
Ya;c and ages, seq |, us chatin' me,
we've been. Mlsthress MAIroone and |
take ye Tor lone wildly.
&. GET up. Pcther, anI take cup OF
tay. lis aAry ye are the morn," svz she,
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nu"t6.r @ ii,ue rossoon @ li bv ' the liar Hand ana
Sez sb.,,M
..peth.r occu,bia spz she ,bi; IS
Dinois >
..hn, whose D;nnis M;e,hress M,I-
roopv y, s,r
.Our TYnnis" sez she.
" Au.Y}y' s,z I,
"Sure. Pether, sc3 she. 'tisn't a weshcc
IirtL. lin a. a thinr the ljkes Of lbat vein
be complaining ay 3"
1. r.. the nnw.rsl MisIhrrss MuIroonv
sez /. What the sossoon wants in size. he
makes up in ugl.uess, does be think
ing"
'''Tis breaking me heart to hear ye
talk 50, Pether," sez the ovid crocky>
die"
T,oth. Bildy, Thought |, It's cob
b!er's !apaIoue tue satter OF the Two"