The Portland daily press., 1865-11-14

this time O'Connell's own party and the
loungers about the place formed an audience
quite sufficient to rouse Mrs. Moriarty, on
public provocation, to a due exhibition of her
powers. O'Connell commenced the attack by
asking:
-."Whats the price of this walking-stick, Mrs.
| What's-your-namep
"Moriarty, sir, is my name, and good one
1t is, too, and what have you to say agin it P
and acknowledgements the price of the stick.
| Trotll, it's as cheap as dirt, so it isn
ne-and-sixpence for such walking-stickl
Whewl why you are no better than an impos-
ter, TO ask one-and-sixpence for what cost only
two-pence." :
fwo-pence your Grandmother replied
Mrs. Biddy. do you mean to say that it's
| cheating the people am Imposter indeed r
@Ay, impostor; and it's that call YOU to
your teeth" replied O'Connell.
-Come cut your stick, you canterous jacka-
napes"
"Keep a civil tongue in your head. you old
diagonal" replied @, O,Connell calmly.
"Stop your jaw, you pug-nosed badger; or
by this and that" cried Mrs. Moriarty, 9Pl
make you so quicker than you come"
"Don't you be in a passion, my old radius
Anger will only wrinkle your beauty"
"By the hockey, ifyou say another word Of
impudence, I'll tan your dirty hide, you baste
Il IL
! fist with your carcass"
".Whew, boys! what a passion old Diddy il
in! protest, as am g -ntlemann-
"Jintleman! jintleman! The like ofyou a
imtleman! Wisha, by gor, that bangs Dana
CHER. Why, you potato-faced pippen-sneezer
when did Madagascar monkey like you picl
up enough of common Christian dacency te
hide your Kerry brogue ?"
easy now" cried O'Conne!l, with imper
/ furl, 1,,tp, oh ,,oI.
with fine language, You old whiskey drinking
para'lelogam." ,3
l4aq"What's that you call me, you murdern
villain?" roared Mrs. Moriarty, ,etung into fu
| ry.
- 'I call you, answered O'Connell, "a parallel
ogram, and a Dublin Judge Or Jury would say
| it's no libel to call you So"
20, tare and GUNS! o, holy Biddy! that an
honest woman like me should be called par
rybellygrums, you rascally gallows bird you
cowardly sneaking, plate-licking blagguard,o
'sOh, not you, indeed" retorted OConnell
"Why, l suppose you'll deny that you keep 0
hypothenuse in your house."
''Its a lie for you, you bloody robSer. nev.
er had such thing in my house, you old
swinddling thiefn 200 .a1,l ~
1-"Why, all your neighbors know very well
that you not only keep hypothenuse, but
that you have two diameters locked up in your
garret, and that you 60 to walk with them ey.
cry Sunday, you heartlcss old heptagon." sda
"Oh!hear that. We saints in glory! Oh that's
bad language for fellow who wants to pass
himself OFF for jintleman. May the divfl fly
away with you, you mincher from Munster,
and make celery sauce from your rotten
limbs p'
"Ah, you don't deny the charge, you miser-
able submutiple OF duplicate ratio" a1
$50 rinse your mouth in the Liffy, YOU mas
ty tickle-pitcher. After all the bad words YOU
speak it ought to be filthier than your face,
you dirty chicken of Beelzebub." aieHi6'
Rinse your mouth, you wicked old polygon.
To the deuse | pitch you, you clustering inter
section of sinking supeffices."
"You saucy tinlers apprentice, ifyou don't
cease your jaw, Pll-" sf : .iioI
But here she grasped for breath, unable to
hawk up any more words; for the last volley
of OConnell had nearly knocked the wind out
of her. u toi9szsai = Il
while l have tongue, vi abuse you, YOU
most 1nlmltabe periphery. Look at her, boys
there she stands-a convicted perpendicular
In petticoats! There's contamination in her
circumference, and she trembles with guilt
down to the extremities of her corollaries,--
An! you're found out, you rectilineal antece-
dent and equiangular old hagl IT'S you the
devil will fly away with, you porter-swiping
similitude of the dissection of a vortex
Overwhelmed with this torrent of language.
Mrs. Moriarity was silenced. Catching up the
saucepan, she was aiming it at O'Connell's
hhad, when he very prudently made timely
retreat.
"Youhave won the wager, O'Connell," cried
the man who proposed the contest. Heres
your bet -5f -----s