The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-09-09

High Life Travested.

| High Life Travested.
We are handed the subjo,ncd humorous
take-of Of royal regulations, by an esteem.
ed friend of the Irish persuasion; he clip
ped it from New York paper several years
ago and in council with him and several
other representatives of the Emerald Isle it
was decided to start it again on the road to
the temple of Momus, the God of Humor.
If the reading of it is as fatal to the blues
as it was to the buttons of our council it
will do more good than Drug sto,e.-
True, the closing references to dancing and
drinking and lighting seem slightly personal
to some Of us Puts, but then we can afford
now-and then to assist the dull world about
US to laugh even though the expense may
be divided between the high circles of
court and the rougher portion Of our own
people.
1t is remembered that the "pro osramme"
published in Paris papers preceding the
birth, Princes Eugenie's bantling gave rise
to much comment on this side the Atlantic.
The following letter from an Irishman in
New York to his cousin in Ireland will be
read with interest:
New YARK, April the sicond,
United Stats Of Amiriky, 1856.
DEAR PnALIM It's nearly nine months
now since meself and Biddy got married
on the Ould sod, an left-bad luck to the
day-for Ameriky. Ye know, me boy, we
brought ould Mrs. Garraty, me darin',
Biddy's mother, over wild US, an that's
that's throublin me intirely, for since she got
here, where she's able to ait matt vance a
day, harrin' the prohibishuns of the church,
divl wan crather in the world is as proud
as hersilf She thinks hersif better nor
Duane Victorey now, since she's got
daughter married, who's likely in few
days to make her a grand mother, and a
son-in-lav in the soap fat business, wild a
tin pail of his own.
Och, me boy, it's the little matther al.
ludei to jist now-the grandmother bissi-
ness, | mane-that's vexin' and bothern'
| the life out Of me. She was listenin' to
some wan radin' the program for the lyin'
in iv the Princess Ujania. and divil save
the wan thing else she's talked about iver
since, ownly gittin' up program for Biddy.
Here it is, ma bouchaL, listen TO it:
AT the first taste of Biddy's thribala-
shin, the Wildly Mclaughlin, that riz fam.
lily of sixteen childer, shall be sint for.
"Whin the Wildly arrives, mcsilf will
sind her for Father Maloney, Docther
O'Toole, One, Eyed Moll DAILY that kapes
the shebeen shop bcya,.t Terence McFad-
den, the blind piper; Phil! Noonan, Barney
Doyle, Maurice o Donohue, Dinnis Brady.
Nancy Carroll, Kate Connolly, and Mary
McDermott.
"The children of Dan McGlorin, that
lives in the mkt room, is al. to be put in
the back yard, aich wild iisht full of pork
and banes, the way they won't make
noise till the ditficulty's over.
1.-The sthrictest silence shall be preserved
the divil wan II be allowed to sphake
at all, barrin' the Wildly, an she must
whisper-till afther the child is born an
his name is Patrick. Thin the word shall
be given the childhcr to KEN in frm the
yard, all the pape in the barracks shall be
escorted in by Tim Flaherty and the whole
o thin shall give rale, thrue, honest, Irish
howl
"Afther that, the red herrins and the
whiskey shall be passed around, and thin
afther that agin the pipar shall be stud up
on chair in tn. corner o the room-per-
vidin' he isn't too dhrunk to stand, and if
he is, thin he shall be sated an tied there
an thin the dancln' shall begin.
Every wan p,isent shallbs EXPECTED to
enjy themselves to the full, an the divil a
wan, mail or femail shall lave the primises
till the last fite takes place."
That dye think O that, now, Phalim
dear? Did ye liver hare O. the like! Bad
luck to the greasy Frinchm,n. that put it
into the ould woman's head at all.
BARSEY MULvANEY.