The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-12-08
snR. U'FINNlGAN.

Anu ooutdeo Dy plaiu, SIT
They said he owned some castles, too,
With barns and fields behind them
But they were so mighty small,
His son could never find them.
Mr.. o Finnigan takes trip DER the sea
with his family. He claims his title and
explains a technically:
AT lwiniy one crossed the sea
With Biidy, in the s,eerage,
And wrote our names upon The books
As mimbers of the peerage.
We had an extra bed supplied,
By paying half crown, sir,
And though it WASH livery soft,
Twas always falling oo,on, sir.
He arrives in New York, and resents the
imputation of being Norman:
At early dawn on Palrick's day,
We raychei this model city,
And then chap came up to us
And ired 10 be quite witty
"You are the Turkish Admiral"
He qneslioned-"l suppose. sir w
"Faix ! Pm mvsciemnn," saysI
And broke his ugly nose, sir.
He perigrinates toward the Park, escorted
Ia Mahommed Pacha Tails, Esq, by a
Councilman:
- left me wife aud chldher safe
Abroad the sailing steamer
And then was taken no Broadway
BY Councilman Van Screamer:
axed him gritty what he meant
BY this uptown progression?
Sand sure, says lie, I'm taking you
To see the great procession
He beholdeth the Irish Elephant, and ad.
mires the hinnocent importance of the
hanimal:
His Honor led me TO place
Enclosed within railing,
That looked as though heavy chap
Might break it in the sealing;
And there before n Hail saw
The biggest lump OF Paddy
That ever stood belwixt the pole
And town Of Limavaddy.
His neat stanzas are expressive of a high
" cultivated taste for poetry and bellies iet-
tres:
And every man looked spruce and nate,
With face toward the street, SIR
Except one who was troubled with
A swimming in his feet. sir
The banner tapped like loosened sails,
The music was exciting
As thousands of Kilkenny cats
For the mouse.trap victims fighting.
He meets friend of his youth, whom he
had seen before, and imbibes:
A friend, whom had seen before,
With actions kind and frlskv,
Invited me TO take drink
OF Mr. French's whiskey,
The whiskey tasted very well,
pll tell the raysen why, sir
You see I'd been 50 long al sea,
That was very dry, sir.
The mention OF his pa,ernaI and maternal
relatives proves TO much for him. lie takes
another:
And when me friend and had drank,
He spoke abont me brother,
Which reused the manhood oil my sowl,
And made me-drnk another;
Says he, ''tel ME. Otinnigan;
How ia your poor old mother?"
bad luck to it she dead" says I,
Aud them took another.
He is ia6uced TO take drink:
Says he, "yonr health will not agree
Bedad think ye're right" says |,
And then we dra k together.
Says he ''you navn't changed bit
In any single fature
And returned the compliment
By tratiug to 1.-The crature."
Circumstances compel him 10 swallow
spirituous beverage:
We talked on every subject, then,
or which man could ihi"k. sir,
Aud ioosf before we lef the place,
We took another drink, sir;
With talking such length of time
never shall forget it
My tongue became SO very dry,
rayly had TO wet 1t.
The effect of whiskey upon the Celtic
brain is here made wildly manifest, and
the poetry becomes rather irregular and OBJ
scure-which peculiarilies many critics ad.
mire-as witness the admiration excited by
Tennyson's incomprehensible ALady Of Sha.
lott"
"O'Finnigan,' exclaimed me friend,
s'lll make ye confession;
We'd heter (hicJinio the Park"
Il honor your thic) spression,"
Says |, "(hic) away," says he;
Says |, "(hic) saciy SOD
"Well-" "(Hie)' says ne says !.
2 "Thisis-o"tHic) spensive, !" says he.
MIR. o'Finnigan is entertained with ss.
rnarkable phantasmaeorica spoctacle. verv