The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-27
THE PRIEST HUNTER,
An Irish Tale Of thes enal Times.
By NJ. ARcHDEAcos Ase.
CHArrEM xxxv.

A,,out s;x month"; after 'ss.The Swallow" had
saiied ssfsk her freight of compelled yor yolun-
tary ekftes%6ir Robert was approacning fiol.
Iiotss GrS3ves to visit it's owner. during that
intcrSHl the debauched and infatuated con-
formist had even increased the ri0tous exerav-
agauce ofAis living. He was pillaged BY his
and chilled ON the tuxf and at the gaming
table. In short from his improvident aud reck-
loss habits, his licentionspess and constant
1nsbriety, ~ was Mfa Q, ,D hch FIR
every Que to draw, according TO his circun-
stances and capabiiity. Nor was there living
one who took sufficient interest IN him, to be
at the trouble of endeavoring TO siaekeh OF
restrain his career of Cline and folly
He was proceeding along the avenue, when
he was hailed, from the adjoining hedge by
the girl before named as Ally higgins, ana
who was indeed, as Bryan Gaven had expressed
Il. n bouncing snowy girl, with n fine person.
good features, and rich complexion.
Ally. unfortunately for herself, had been
reared by widowed ann h @nu I too much at
tacbed to whiskey and tobacco Education
was crime against the vie laws at tnao oaI =, x
period: and the household duties In her auhts
cabin though she was, now and then, con-
assrained to do some out-Df-door work, We're
too small to occupy the girls time, SO that the
seeds of vanity aud selt-will, largely sown III
her disposition, had a warton ' Whatever good
ones might be scattered there: she was ue-
priyed ALSO by those same vile laws, OF the
blessed restraints imposed by attention 10 h Ell
Religious duties, which has always been SO
salntary a check to vice, among those In het
rank particularly, who are unrestrained ny
the fear of losing caste and other aoventi-
tious checks, that might curb those Ill hiShei
Instead of the prohibited place OF worship
M abe grew up she became regular attendant
at fairs markets, and wakes anu SUI of he
aged relative, whose example tailieu so lt'l'
4 with her precepts, and whose own laiilhs9
came often under obserVatloh. AS sno ~, u
vanced to womanhood, too, she aScertained, o
course the fact that she was good LOOKING, ah'
contracted, as natural consequence Una
relish for dress and decoration SO generalI.
ruinous to young femal les of her class II
short abe was a prey peculiarly marked on
for the spoiler; and readily she bartered he
Innocence and reputation for the eiaer fio'
Immediotely after Arthur's departure, sh
had been installed into the command OF Flo
lots Grove and the household, as she ma
been, for some time previously o. ais Eso.lo
to his friend Baker, one day N ohe. mansl n1
after she had assumed the -feins Oh gcVe en-
ment there, by the irreverent conanc1 OF Una III
fo1iy neither to himself nor to me, the mos
anxious of fathers. Yet, for all his undutiin
ness, would not give her the title OF III
s1The world must understand and apPreciat
vour Performances; at least, the moral ana II
fecting portion of it, which is, OF course En-. q
for" Salu UuO
bake care. Bill, he added, with emphasis
n "women when they once get authority are are, +:
hard to be shaken out of it as veteran pain
Il out of his caption. Besides, you know we We
theE are sometimes more uncertain than u
verdict of q jury when it's not all OF the rigl
sort, particularly good-looking ana iSnofai
Girls of the lower class, and whom lh9y al
Visited by lavish young fellows, ike SIR ho IL;
a and Cornet Beau mont, and have TO deal VII
an old man-excnse me, Bill, but you are &c
ting fast into the sere and yellow leaf
Sir Robert, having approached tne heuS
bec,an 70 fling out some coarse and licehtio'
tests. in aIlusion to her position, which shc-
fallen creature that she was-rather provoke
than repelled; and he was in the act of han
mo her down from the hedge, that they mig!
Mall1 to@ether, when FfOlliot appeared ut Il
onnosite hedge. When the latter saw wi
vas with Aliy, the attorneys words flash,
stronglv on his mind;. and, after eying Il
confnsmist Indignantly for moment,
said, addressing Ally, in a tone OF wrath; mo
the Glover Into your housewsiffery at at once
GLOW dare 1, is it, Misther tfollio1 r sh Ie
a Joined indignantly, Il suppose youl DO loc
in, ns mn wan o. those days"
of Won are not instantly in L snail lea
Won locked up for a month"
"I dare you, you purse-proud naige 90 81
the girl, who was naturally OF Vlolent 'e'