The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-12-04
MISCELLANY.
Among the Hoggartys.

| lpOUilOOT TellPUnDcTS DHnlCi lIuUHalty
lie was one of the old stock of IRISH gcn-
tlemcn, and very remarkable man he
was, too, as anybody in Boemoor will tell
you. don't boast of him, although |
confess it is with feeling of great salts
faction that | realize the relationship be-
tween the late lamented Daniel Iloggariy
and myself, for he was my father.
My mother (heavcn rest her soul, for
she was an angel, if one ever came % !
earth) died while | was yet boy. " hat
ever am, all the good there is in me,
owe to her. ! don't mean any disrespcct
to the lIo2gartys by the above, though
everybody knows that Tim Rouncy-who
is my grandfather on my mothers side.
was nightly put out about it when he
found that ,his daughter, Peggy Rooney, was
about to marry Dan IIoggarty not bnt
that the iloggartys were good enough,
but, you see, the Rooncys had always
held thcmse,e es as being better than their
neighborS. But that is neither here rof
there.
But, as was saying--bcforc I ran oil
with my grandfather, Tim Rocncy-my
mother made me what am morally and
spiritually. inherit her nature, her
loving disposition, her warm heart. If
vas a womnn,I should he one of the most
loving, fender and. conli1ing creatures in
the world. I'm SO tender hearted that it
is impossible for me TO say ''No" TO a
female.
To proceed with my sto.y it will be
necessary to inform you that the late Mr.
lIoegarty had four brothers. My father
was the eldest of the family. | was lis
only chlld, and, singular enough, every
one Of my unclcS had Just one child apiece,
and every one Of them were girls just
like all the lloggnriy females they were
all benn'ics. In fact, the lIoggartys OF
the female sex have all been handsome,
clear back TO Bridget IIoggarly, who. by
the way, was the most beautiful woman
in Ireland, besides being II c only daugh-
ter Of Pat lloGgariy, who, you know,
was the great grandfather Of all the Hog.
gartys in Ireland.
Well, as | was saying, my father had
four brothers. First. there was Pat Hog
gariy, a nImcsake Of the old llrggarty
himself, who, rs everybody knows, was Il
real, live lord, and the father of Bridget
IIoggariy, the most beautiful woman in
all Ireland. Then, there WAS Mick Hog
garty, Gor whom | was namcCD Tim
IlogGarty and barney Iogcarty: and
they were brothers Of my father before
he died, which makes them my unccs, of
cou,sc. And the best of it Is, there are
four cousins (my unclcs' daughters. YOU
sec), all beautiful as hours are said TO be:
though, as I'm not Turk, and never
saw Il houri in my life, OF cour,c don't
knew; bat anyway, I'm willing TO bet
on the lloggartys for beauty against all
the houris in the Turks paradise.
MoIllc noEgarty is uncle Pat IIorgar.
tvs daughter, and though she may not
be quite SO handsome as Kate Iloggarty
Uarncy's only child, you know, that you
might have seen in your travels, a sweet
little creature, with lloggarty eyes, you
see Just as blue as heaven, and hair that
: just like streams of golD, still she is Il
beauty in her way, with eyes Just as
black AS slocs. and hair Of the same hue
which she took from her mother. who
was II McFaddcn tefure she married my
uncle, Pat Iloggarty.
Biddy lloggnry Ga namcsake of Blid-
get lloggartys, that I've been telling You
about, who was the only daughter of the
father of all the lloggartys), is uncle
Mick lloggarty's duughtcr--and n fine,
strap ing girl she is, too-wilh form
like Venus. and neat little foot. that
would make IL duck blush TO look ut
And you should Just see the pretty, brown
eyes she has, and the sweet. lIoggarly
nose, with II tip on The end OF it like the
knob Of slilalah. And l}iddy h III Il
string of lovers, sure, that would reach
from Cork to Limerick.
Then there WAS Norah, uncle Tim
lloggnrty's daughter, and my own first
cousin, who was quite rs handsome as
lhddy lloggnrty, with checks Ike red
velvet plpcu,hions, and such sweet pair
OF lips, that were jast like eating honey
comb TO kiss them. And her eyes were
just like y'oleis, you see, 50 that they
] ''O'S WV ii''ii ~ i"'r-llOoi NihHl VIII
love of her, from Dick Carey, the piper,
down TO Teddy Regan who lives over
bcyant in the boys.
When my father, through the agency
Of the typhoid fever, became the late la
menIcd Daniel lloggarly, found myself
quite alone in the world, or | mean TO
say | should have been, bat for four I'M
Giles, four aunts, and four cousins, who,
I'm happy TO say, didn't leave me alone
at all for every one Of my cousins came
over after the funeral to keep house for
me tut as Mrs FIaugheriy (who, by
the way, was my mothers third cousin,
had kept house for father for the lat
dozen years and over, | couldn't think of
parting with her; and so | told my fair
cousins that | wished everything TO 90 on
in the old way.
80 be sure,' said cousin Kate.
Yes said Biddy, ill Mrs. Hog
gaIty comes into the House
l smiled, though made no reply. OF
course | looked forward to Il day when
there would be a Mrs Hoggariy in the
house, ! can't say but looked farther,
TO the day when there would be little