The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-10-13
19. And when Patrick and Michael and

~. And when HatrlcK anu p11cndci auO
the ass had. come back unto the house, a
he goat was sacrificed and great feast
given and great was the rejoicing In
Patrick's household: for 10, Michael had
been lost, and now he was found.
20. TAnd % if tho evil foretold by the
strange woman had not fully come to pass,
it was so that, after Michael bad been at
the pound, his head was filed with creep
ing things, called lice; and they were
exceedingly fruitful, and multiplied and
replenished also the heads OF Patrick and
Biddy and Teddy:
21. So that al1the members of Patrick 8
household were in sore distress, being
plagued like unto Pharaoh and his people
in the days of Moses and Aaron.
%. And Patrick sent for the magicians
and the sorcerers, and said unto them,
Verify, these lice are grievous a5omina-
ton, and 1 would fain be rid of them.
%. And the magicians and the sorcer-
ers began with their enchantments, and
Immediately all the lice that we're In the
household lodged in the head of Michael.
"a And Teddy, being SO commanded,
kindled fire, and placed Michael nigh
unto the same and Teddy took the cur
rv.comb with which he had been wont to
curry the ass, and he did curry Michaeps
head Herewith
25. And, behold, all the lice that were
upon MichaePs head fell into the fire, and
Immediately yielded up the ghost; SO that
they troubled not any one again.
26 And when the plague was removed,
Patrick rewarded the magicians and the
sorcerers each according to his merits,
and sent them away.
27. TAnd the strange woman with bare
feet and torn garments cometh yet again
to the house, and saith to them that are
within,
%. Behold, great evil hath come upon
the child Michael, in order to the fulfill
ment of the prophecy which l spake on
the day that ye refused to let him be cir
cumcised
20. But greater evil still shall come
upon him, and upon this household, and
all the entertainments and witchcraft in
Ireland shall not be able to remove the
same.
80. And when she had SPOKEN these
words, the strange woman caught Micha-
ePs hand within her own, and pressed it,
and Immediately fed from the house.
81. Which when she had done, griev-
GUS distemper, called the seucn-years itch,
came upon Michael;
32 And Michael, in due course of time,
communicated the distemper unto Biddy;
and in like manner Biddy gave the same
unto Patrick;
33. Likewise Teddy, the man-servant,
was afflicted with the distemper, but
whether he got it from Patrick or from
Biddy hath never been ascertaiued unto
this day.
81. And Patrick sent for the magicians
and the sorcerers, and they came with their
euchantments; likewise, he sent for the
learned doctors, and they came with their
precious ointments
35. But not whit could they do to
remove the plague; so they were all in
sore distress, and wept, and walled, and
CRASHED their teeth in great torment.
36. And it was so, that, after lapse of
seven years, Patrick and his household
went down to the lake Of Killarney and
bathed therein, and Immediately the DIS
temper departed from them, and they we're
made clean.
81. And they returned to the house
and Patrick put his shillelagh in order,
and sware by the saint Of his own name,
that, if the strange woman ever set foot
in his house again, sho should surely be
put to death.
r@- Gen. Mcclellan, with an army of
one hundred and eighty thousand men.