The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-13
m'rom the Catholic World
ALL-HALLOW EVE !;
OR, THE TEST OF FUTURITY.
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CHAPTER TX.

CHATTER TX.
Imust now describe q portion of the garder
which stretched out from the back OF old Ned
Cavana's premises. A large well-enclosed
farmyard, almost Immediately at the rear o.
tho house, gave evidence of the comfort and
plenty belonging not only to the old man b q
self, but to ever! thing living and dead abou,
tho place; and rs We shall be Obliged to pass
thfoagh this farm-yArd to get into the garden,
we may as well describeis fret. Stacks of
corn, wheat, oats and barley, in great variety
of size, pointed the piuuaclee Of their inishlD 4
touch to the sky. Sticking up from some OF
straw, in the shape of fish, fowl, dogs and cats,
the handiwork of Jamesy Doyle, the servant
boy,-the same black headed urchin who lift
cd the ten penny bit out of the tub at old Muir
doek's party. They were fastened upon sticks
which did not turn round, and were therefore
put mp more to itighten away the sparrows
chan for the purpose of indicating which way
the wind blew, or, more likely still, as mere
specimens Of Jamesy Doyles ingenuity. The
whole yard was covered o foot deep with loose
straw, for the double purpose OF giving com
fort to two or three litters of young pigs, and
that of being used up, by the constant tramp
ing into manure for the farm for cows, heif-
ers and calves strayed about il without inter
Euption. A grand flock of geese, as white as
anow and as large nearly as swans, marched
N from the fields, headed by their gander,
every evening" about the same hour, to spend
their night gaggliug and watching and sleep
ing by tarns under the stacks of corn, which
Sere raised upon stone pile with mushroom
znetaieaps, TO keep out THE rats and mice.
big black cock, with o hanging red comb and
white iowls, end iunumerable hens belonging
70 him, something on the Brigham Young sys.
lem, marehed triumphautly about, calling his
Eavorites every now aud then with a auick mel
ancholy little chuckle as often as he found
Sni4s AEnougs. the straw. Dacks, half as large
the geese, coming home without fea-
thss fled, in notified string OF all colors,
from the stream below the hill, diving, for
iarC iptn he roll
aud then. and smattering with their Hat bills,
N any little puddle of water that lay bet veen
the pavement in the bare part of the yard.
Bully dhu,r the Watchdog, as evening closed
taking possession of small wooden house
upon wheels,-Jamesy Doyle's hnndiwork too,
that it might be turned to the shelter,
whichever way the wind blew. II was q mi
Tacle to sec Bully getting into it, the door was
80 low; another. piece Of consideration of
Jamesy's for the dogs comfort. Iou could
only know when he WAS in it by seeing his
large soft paws under the arch of the low
door.
Beyond this farm y ard-farm in all its ar-
pearance and realries-was the garden. A
:hiek, high, furze hedge, about sixty yards
long, ran down one side of it, from the corner
ofthe farm-yard wall and at the further end
Of this hedge, which was the square of tine
garden, and facing the sun, was cert ainly the
most complete and beautiful summeA house in
tbe parish of Rathcash, or Jamesy Boyle was
very much mistaken. 1t also his handi-
work. In fact, there nothing Jamesy
sould no, turn his hands to, and his heart W as
~ ready his hands, SO that he was ALWAYS
former ingenuity. The bower was now of four
years standing, and every summer Jamesy
was proud to see that nature had approved of
his plan by endorsing il with q hundred diff
erent signatures. With the other portions of
the garden or it's several crops We have moth
ing to do; We will therefore linger for n while
about the furze hedge and in "JAmesy's bower
30 see what may turn up. But must desert be
another item in the locality,
Immediately outside the hedge there was q
lane, common TO n certain extent to both
farms. 1t might be said to divide them Il
lay quite close to the furze hedge, which ran
IN straight limo O long distance beyond
where "Jamesy's bower" formed one of the an
gels Of the garden. There was q gate across
she lane precisely outside the corner where
The bower bad been made and this was the ex-
tent of the lane. Passing through this gate.
Murdoch branched off to the left with the pro.
duoe OF his farm. 1t is a long lane, they say,
that has no turning, and although the portion
of this one with which we are concerned was
only sixty yards long, have not, perhaps.
brought the reader to the spot SO quickly as /
might / certainly could have brought him
through the yard without putting even the
word farm" before il, without saving n
word about the stacks of corn and the wea-
ther-cocks, the pigs, cows, heifers, asd calves
the geese, ducks, cock, aud hens, "Bullydhun
and his house, etc, and with u hop, step. and
leap might havo placed him in "Jamesy's
bower If he had been tho person to occupy it
DSt nc was NOT WIN every twig, however,
OF the hedge and the bower it is necessary
that my readers should be well acquainted ::
and hope have succeeded in making them
80.
winny Cavana was q thoughtful, thrifty
girl, an experienced house-keeper, never al
lowing one job to overtake another where il
could be avoided. OF course incidental din
eslhes wonid sometimes arise but in general
She managed everything so nicely aud syste-
natically that matters fell into their own time
and place as regularly as possible.
When Winry got tho inyitation for NicL
Anrdocks party, which was only in the fore
noon of the day before it came off, her first
Snd ill-htted for business the day after II was
over. She therefore called JameSy DOYLE to
her assistance, and on that day aud the next.
she got through whatever household inbs
would bear performance in advance, and in
struotcd Jamesy rs TO some little matters
which sue used to oversee heSelf but which
IN this occasion she would entrust SOLELY 10
his own intelligence aud Judgment for the
day after tho party.-She oouid not have com