Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-26
By CRAWFORD WILSON.

Ye who have landed at Kingstown, have
some idea of the confusion that attends the
debark1tion of your luggage, aud are pre-
pared for what awaits you upon every trip
been there before, so ye may form some
estimate Of my feelings. knew not what
to do, or where to turn: was perfectly
thundersiruck. Ireland was a closed book
TO me, the first leaf of which had scarcely
perused when wished it far away from me
for ever. Hemned in on all sides, such
greeting as these saluted my ears:
rHere you are, sir-jarvey, sir-run you
up to town in less time than the thraIn
could do it. There's the little mare for you,
sir, that can 60 the pace back 'ards'
"Arrah. don't be botherin' the gintleman,
don't you see he's Judge of horsefesh, and
he wouldn't be seen outside iv sich garrun
as that. Here's the beauty, yer honour
'Ghee. WOO! wbup's We divilr" and spank
of whip to a broken-kneed. broken windej
broken-hearted. looking brute. Nineteen
miles an hour, sir, an all on a thimblefull of
wather, an a praaskeen OF pratie-skins--
that's the horse, SIR"
"Faiy! an it's well you towld his honour
for he'd nivir know it was one from iookin
at it. Jump up here, sir. mines the darling
fit for The hounds. sir.''
"Yes, IN troth, for their bellies!' cried a
fourth. ''if they were starvin' a week afore,
and had nolhn' but him. or turf-clump TO
ate; but, bv my sowkins, they'd want to in
sure :heir teeth afore they tackled him; take
him out !" that iv he's able to walk, and let
the dacent .leman get up on the quality's
car, where he'll have bit of ould Harka-
ways blood foreninst him."
"Bad scran to you! what 90 you mane?''
shouted fifth Indignantly. "Sure you
know that that ould three-legged baste av
yours was only turned out av the slaughter
house last Monday bekase he was too rotten
TO be killed Dent insult a fine young
gintleman from England, by AKIN him to
spile his dacent shoot of clothes by putin
them on such shandradan as that. Here
YOU are, sir,-covered car, sir-an omnibus
an a s,ate-coach on two wheels, rowled in
TO one, where you can sit wild your hack to
the horses. In wild you, sir, an show the
blaguards you're above travelling wild the
likes of 'em, an have a raal taste for the
illigant."
s'I'm going by the train," said I, when |
coul3 get in a word. al don't want car"
"Oh! but you'll take your death of cowld
sir, IL you 90 by them, for the windows is
all bruk in the carriages, and none iv the
axletrees is creased"
"How is thatl' I asked, in evident alarm
turning to a car-driver beside me upon whose
countenance innocence and candour were
graved, if ever they rested upon mortal face.
@Bekase ye see, sir, the company spent
all their money last weed in putin the
lecthric telescope along the lines, an they
haven't as much left afther it as id buy the
lard. Up wid ye here, sir, an we'll distance
'em in no time"
saw in a moment how it vas, especially
when loud laugh rang in my ears from the
healthy lungs of the surrounding body.
"Bring that truck here,'' | said authori-
lively.
"Eaith, an thought he was a gintlemanI
above slch thing, sa!d one.
"Have a care, Barney, or he'll be sitting
on the top iv it," cried another, Sand givin'
you tuppince for wheeln' himself an the
rest ov the thrumpery.''
"Who'd think it av him!" asked third;
@sure, an he looks dacint."
"Divl bit of it, chimed in a fourth,
shes only tailor's snip out on spree;
don't ye see he's doin' the chape!'
sShame on yez!'' roared fifth, "dou't ye
see he's only deck passenger, an he wants
tretch his legs wild walk, TO get the chill
of the night out ov 'em."
"Fath, Darby, an it's thrue for you--he's
got the wool from the pigs he was lyin' wild
on his maSther's Clothes"
Flattering remarks, truly, when the in
Jividual complimen,ed happens t. be of the
"6rst person singular" and the impression
formed by no means prepo>sessing! Now,
if there is one position in life more CALLING
than another, it is being made the butt for
sarcasm, when the inner man is anything
but convalescen;, and the outward signs and
tokens decidedly un avorable. So felt |, and
it was with vague fear of some mure prac-
tical Jokes following, that | passed up be-
side the truck or my way to the station.
"Go in the front door, your honor, an
I'll bring the things round this away, an
put them into the thrain, while you'd be
winkn' one OF your eyes"
did as directed: when | arrived on the
further platform, my traps were all placed
in safety, so tentered The porter Or truck
man a shilling.
He turned it round leisurely in his hand,
and then said, Maybe you'd like me to wheel
'em all the way to Dublin fer this much!'
srve DO such DESIRE" was my reply.
"Oh, Thought you had," said he--"for
haven't you given me thrife too much"
"If have, you can keep it," said /, magn-
animously.
Thank you for nothin'," he returned
with laugh.
"Do you want any more, my mani"
"Arrah, an to be sure do; sure an 1t:
only humbuggn, me you are"
/ assured him | had no such ambition.
sWhy thin, in throth you ought TO be
ashamed to look dacint glass av whiskey
in the face, alter given man dirty tweF
penny, wild hole in it, an tho harry rubbed
off, for pullin' the arms out av his body
wheelin' such CARLOAD |ov things up the
hill beyaut. Look here now" (and he turn
ed himself slowly round, until his face wa'
again before me,) "this is all that's left az
me afther that job"
81 cannot help that" said, getting int
.af rstclass carriage. He called at me through
the wooden rails that are erected on thu
platform, for the purpose of keeping sucl
customers at proper distance.
"Hillo! that aint your place"
"Where else then!'' | asked, bewildered
"Under the axlethree, an the soone
you're there the betther."
drew in my head, finding that | wa
doubly fooled, and was closing the door be
hind me, when he approached the windoN
,nd said