The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-04-25

the place formed an audience quite spiii"!ent
to rouse Mrs Moriarty, on public proTocalion,
TO due exhibition Of hcrpowerS. O'ConneiI
commenced the attack:
.s'What's the price Of this walking-st;ck,
Mrs. What's-your-namc
" 'Moriarty, sir, is my name, and good
one it is; and what have You agen it? and
onc-and-Sixpence is the price Of the stick
throth it's chape as dirt, so it is
'One-and-sixpence for q walking-stick!
whew! Why you are no better than an i'm
postor to ask eighteen-pence for what cost
You two-pence.'
"'Two-pence, your grandmother, replied
Biddy; do you name to say that it is cheat
ing the people | am? Impostor indeed
- "'Aye, impostor; and it's that call you
to your teeth, rejoined O'Connell.
"'Come, cut your stick, you cantankerus
iackanapes.'
keep civil tongne in your head, you
old diag0naIn p cried O'Ccnnell calmly.
"'Stop your jaw, you pug-nosed badger, or OF,
by this and that cried Mrs. Moriarty, I'll
make you go quicker than you came. .
"Don't be in a passion, my old radlNS 1t Will
only wrinkle your bcauty.'
"'By the hokcy, if you say another word
of impudcnce, III tan your dirty hide, yen
haste! y scrub; and sorry Id be to soil my
fists upon your carcase.'
"Whew, boys, what a passion old Blddy
is in; protest, as I'm gentleman
'Jiutleman! jintleman; the likes of you
a iinteman Wisha that bangs Banaeher
Why, you potato faced pippiu-squcczer, when
did a Madagascar monkey like you pick up
enough of common Christian decency to hide
your Kerry brogue?' :,
Easy now, easy now cried O'Connel,
with impcrturbable good humor, don't choke
yourself with fine language, you old whiskcy-
drinking para7e}0grGna.'
"'What's that you call me, you murderln
villain p roared Mrs. Morarty, stung into tu-
"T call you,' answered O'Conncll, a paral,
telegram and Dublin Judge and jury will
say that it's no libel to call you So
,"'Oh, tare-an-ounds! oh, you ruflin !! that
an honest woman like me should be called
partybeIlygrum to her face. I'm none ofyour
parrybellygrums, you rsscaly gallows-bird
you cow2rdIy, sneakin', plate-licken' big
gard
"'Oh, not you, indeed retorted O'Conncll;
why, suppose you'll deny that you keep
Hypoteagse in your house
ats lie for you, you robber; I never
had such thing in my house, you swindiing
thief
"'Ah, you can't deny the charge, you mis-
cradle sub-multipze Of Il duplicate ratlo,'
"'You saucy tinker's apprentice, if You
dent cease your jaw, I'll - But here she
gasped for breath while O'Connell proceeded:
"'While have a tongue III abuse you,
you most inimitablc periphery. Look at her,
boys; there she stands, convicted Pefpendle-
uzar in pctticoats There she trcmbles with
guilt down to the extremities other c0r0}laTics.
All! you're found out, you rectilineal Gntece-
dent, and eguiangu3ar old hag; you porter
swiDing Similjtude of the dissection Of q GER
t0rP
"OrerwheImed with this torrent Of Ian
guage, Mrs. Moriarty was silcnced. Catching
up a saucepan, she was aiming at O'Connell>s
head, when he prudently made timely re-
treat
"'You have won your wager, O'Connell;
here's your bet, cried the gentleman who
proposed the contest
G'COnncll knew we'll the use Of sound in
Pituperation, and having to deal with an ig-
norant scold, he determined to overcome her
in volubility by using all the sesquipedalI9
rer6G which occur in Euclid. With these,
and few significant epithets, and scotEing,
impudent Gemeanor, he had for once imposed
silence on Biddy Moriarty.