The Van Buren press., 1859-07-27
Peter Mulrooney.

must have kissed the blarney stone every
morning early, from his youth upwards |
relanl--if you believed him--was the 4
Eden of the world, and yet. somehow orl
other, after Peter got settled here, he did
no; seem TO have any icryent desire to gol
back to his Paradise.
His first introduction Of himself to my
notice was characteristic Of the .nan. He
came towards NE with quick. shambling
gait. and touching his hat lightly, said:
:. The top o the mornin to YES honor
Would ye like to hire handy boy -
Peter was at least 40.
:. What can you DO 2" | inquired.
Is it what can I do ?, Oh, begorra,
there nothin e9lnes a.yliss : me. any way, =
se.a ailss1.s an i.sle a;5s,us aisaiiig
g Och, murther! What ud be good
for, If ! didn't? Sure there wasn't a more
illigant hand in Ould Ireland than myself"
g Have you ever had any thing to do
with horses ~
q Bedad sir, ye jist guessed it, Divil a
mater hand viii the horse yen find in all the
country Galway than Petcr Mulrooney, an
thats 20 lie
9 And Cows 90
? rs it the basees We name? Sure yer
honor 5 in luck tllc day Fax, I'd like to
see the man al bate me wild the cltythur..
Bat we farm differently here, Mulyoo-
ney, from what they do in the old country
. Sure that's thfue, any how It's the
f, lirthY, black may gurs, the haythens, that' $
athing they're good for, th, man-ating can
lnaibals -
And 50 you think you could better ii,
! do yon o.
Belad. siy, i;'ud be poor ehats Of a
spalpeen ! an, ii coulin't, Wasn't
heal muu TO wan Sprowls Tor more than
two years ? Och, bu he was tho ilhgunt
farmer Bad cess 10 the day left HIM
III you regret 10 50 much, Why did You
1 do so ?'
"Aych! yon may well ox Twas my
doin' sure lis 4 bit OF a shin4y l had,
and bruk Terry lsanahan's head wild my
shiIlelah. oh wirrf' wirra who'd a
thought it was 50 sal3 90
Yen dr.n't Kill him 30 said /, starting
back in honor.
Il it muthered him, VI name Bcgra
ra, he'd be,a poor thing to mind 9 cracked
skull, anyway. SUR, sir, it was nothing
to spallc Of. - q.
"Then. why did you come away o.
It's dirty, maia constable that'ud be
coInin after me as are, what coJld do
but bate him tor the tLsuble he was takin' ?
Mighty onasey | LEFT Inn. aay way an
that's no Ie."
Wen, Peter. suppose I tty yon for s
month. OF course I do not expect you to
have perfect A!znowekdge Of our ways a.
. first. You must let iae see what YOU can
do"
Good luck to yer honor. It's the real
gentleman We are. What'll l be doin'
first ~
Peter was set to perform VARIOUS light SER
vices upon the place, for. entertaining
certain miSgNinss as to Mr. Mul-
rooney's actual capacity determined TO
hire him as d .ort of odd man until surh
time as could test more fully the amount
OF farming skill he really possessed. The
result was. that | soon found Peter knew
nothing beyondthe simple use Of the shov
el. With that instrument he was truly dex
tcrous. Horses he could neither feed, clean
nor manage. In ploughing. hc was posi-
lively SO awkward that, instead OF guiding
hrmy y the handle Of the plough, he pushed
them forward wIlha his strength. trotting
along all the time by the side of the fur
row AMI, instead OF cutting his furrow
slices straight and of even depth, he ran
them in and out in the crookedest way i'm
asinabie, while the depth Of ploughing I'M
dulated from two to eight inches.
These experiments convinced me Of Pc
ter's incapacity, SO, from thcnceforth, kept
him employed at dtehing, or in the gar
den, or i'll PERFORMING light offices for the
household.
One day, having occasion to go to town,
I called him to ne.
. Peter" said |, q think my carriage
runs heavily. 1t wants grcasilg. Can
you do j, p
'' Sare, sir, said he, :. what I'd be good
for if ! couldn,t? Is it erase carriage ?
Faith, that's asy enough any way
9 Easy as it is. Peter, am half. afraid |
to trust You to do it. You make so many
blundcrs. Perhaps after all. l had better
go with you and see it DONE
|Oh wrra did iver hear the likes o |
that What "a We be goin' for? Sure l |
know
All, but Peter. recollect what you said
about the ploughing'
q Bego:ra ~ said Peter nothing aLashed /
"it's all the fault of the ploughs, in this |
country, any how Them's the contrairi-
est things that ever broke a poor diyil's
back an that's no lie ~
- And the horses too, Peter, that you
knew so much about"
It's Ameriky bastes they are" said
Peter. :. Would yer honor understand
Irish, at first, If ye whit across to the Ould
country 20
l shook my head.
"Shurc, thin, that's the way it was"
said Peter, triumphantly. - Ii real GIN
tleman, like yer honor, couldn't undther-
stand Irish, is it brute baste that has the
larning to know it before | tache him 90
"Well well but about the carrige"
Bcdad, yc needu't trouble yourself
about it at all. There's mighty little diff
fer in the carriages, l see all the wurid
over
'.Be careful, then, Peter and grease it
we'll, do you hear 90
:. Faix, I'll do that same thing I'll be
plazing yer honor this time any way
An hour passed, and waited i'm patient
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