Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1861-11-14

Of a be,ther, and that's O'Sulivan.'
'Troth there's more than there's good O. them,
said Barny
| Good or bad, Tn cousin O. your own twice
removed by the mothers side
And is it the Widda O'Suvans boy you d
be that's left this, come Condemns, four years.
The same
'Throth thin you might know bether man.
ners to your eldhers, though I'm glad to see you,
anyhow, agin; but little thravelIin, PUTS us
beyant ourselves sometimes said Barny rather
contemporary.
'Thro,h niver Dragged out O. myself yit,
and it's what say that man that's only a
6shin' aft the land all his life has no business to
compare in the regard of thracthericks wild a
man that has sailed to Fingal.'
This siIeuced any further argument on
Barny's part Where Fingal lay was all Greek
to him; but unwilling to admit his ignorance,
he covered his retreat with the usual address CT
his countrymen, and turned the bitterness Of de.
bate into the cordial flow of congratulation at
seeing his cousin again.
The liquor was freely circulated, and the
conversation began to take a different turn, in
order to lead from that which had nearly ended
in quarrel between OReirdon and his rcla-
tion.
The state of the crops, county cess, road jobs
&c, became topics, and many structures as to
the utility of the latter we're INDUCED in. while
the merits cf the neighboring farmers were
canvassed.
Why thin SAID one, that field o whate O.
MichHl Coghln, is the finest feld O. whate NOR.
tai eyes was ever set upon-divil the likes iv it
myself ever seen far or near
Throth thin, sure enough said another, it
promises to be fine crap anyhow and myself
can't hep thinkin' it quare, that Mckee Cog
hlan. that's paln.spoken, quite lquiet) nan,
and simple like, should have finer craps than
Pether Kelly o. the b,g farm beyant, that knows
knowled geable to u degree, and has all the
hard words that iver was coined at his fng,rs'
ends.
Faith, he has power o. AaHhogue about
him enough said the former speaker if
that could do him any good, hut he isn't fit to
how'd candle to Michnl CoghIan in the regard
O. farmin'.'
Why blur an ayers rejoincd the ppholder
OF science, sure he met The Scotch steward tha,
the lord hcyunt has, one day, that | hear is IL
wondherlul edcar nan, aud was brought
over here to show US all a pathern-we
Pethcr Kelly met him one day, aud by gor he
di<cocrsed him to that degree that the Scotch
chan had ut word left in h $ jaw
We'll, aud what was he the betther O. havin
more prate than II Scotchman 2 asked the other
WAY, answered KelIy's friend, i think il
stand 10 rayson that the man that done out the
Scotch steward ought to know somethin' more
a'on' farm,u' than Mckee CoghIan'
! 'Anrh! don, talk to me about knowing, said
the other rather conemptousIy. Sure gev
in to you that he has a power O. prate, and the
gift o the CAB, and all to that | oSn to you
that he has the ihe ry and the che.mis,thery,
but he has not the craps Now the man that
has he craps, is the man for my money
You're right, my boy said R.irdon, wita
an approving thump of his hrawny fist on the
table, its little talk goes far-doin is the
thing
'Ah, yiz may run down larnin If yiz like,
said the undismayed slickler for theory versus
practice, but larnin is fine thing and sure
where would the world be at all only for i! sure,
where would the staymers (steam boats) be, only
for larnn' 3
Well said O'Reirdon, and the divil may
care we never seen them I'd rather dipind
on wind and canvass any day than the likes O.
them. What are they good for, but to turn
good sailors into kitchen maids. all as one, bilin
big pot O. wather and oiln' heir fre.irons, and
throwln Goals on the fire ? Augh! thin staym.
ers is disgrace to the sly; they're for all the
world like old foges, smokin from mornin till
night and dou no good
DO you call it doing no good to go faster
nor ships iver went before 2
Pooh sure Solomon, queen O. Sheba, said
there was time enough for all things
Thrue for you said O'ou|ivan, 'Jair and
aisy goes far ina day. is good ould sayin''
well, maybe you'll own to the improvement
they're maxim in the harbor O. Howh, beyant
in Dublin, is some good
Wen see whether it II be an Improvement
first, said the obdurate O'Reirdon.
why, man alive, sure you'll own its the
greatest o. good, it is takin up the big rocks out
O. the bottom o. the harbor.'
We'll, an where's the wondher OF that sure
we done the same here
oh yis, but it was whin the tide was ou,
and the rocks were bare; hut up in IIowth they
cut away the big rocks from under the say in-
tireIy'
Oh, be aisy ; why, how could they do that! I!
Aye, thore's the marther, that's what larnn
can do and wonderful it is entirely! and the
way it is, is this, as l hear it. for never seen
it, but hard it described by the lord to some gin
temin and ladies one day in his garden while
| Was helpin' the gardener to land some salary
! (celery) You sec the ingineer goes dcwn un.
! dher the wather inlirely, and can stay there as
long as h. ppzes.'
| 'Whoo and what O. that? Sure heerd the
long sailor say that come from the Aysthern
lngees, that Engineers there can amost live un-
dher walher; and goes down Iookin' for dime N Is
and has sedge hammer in their hand hraken
the dmonds when they're too biz to take them
up whole, all as one as men brakein' stones an
he road
| 'Well | dont want m oo bav,pt ,b,, l,t