Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-10-22

didn't eOme to my senses for minute or
two; and when popped my head on, Of
the basket, never a soul was there but the
old d-m' er tnsriug ava in her old
chair by the fre.
But though they saved their still. they
couldn't get over the selling of the drink /:
that was plain enough against them /;
against Terence Maea thy, that j., who
lived in the cabin. lie was just the cats.
paw Of the men that worked the still but
h soi all the punishment. nore's rhe pity
Well, | summoned Terence, and got him
fiued 9l00; tnd as there was nothing in
the world in his hut but the old turf kish
as I'd kicked the bottom OUT OF, and his
grandmother's chair that had been thatched
with bit cat straw, took oIt a body.
warrant, as we call it, and made up my
miud Id have 10 take my friend 10 Dub
lin castle.
Now, lrcland's different country al
together from this; and after we'd had
our sessions, and the magistrates had
sigued the warrant against poor Terence,
we went into the public-house close by
the whole lot of US, magistrates aud all
and began to drink whiskey like fish,
Sandy, me boy SAID Mike Hackett-
ye remember Mike Sandy, isn't i
trembling yc are with apprehension" ?" H'
was very particular in his conversation
vas Mike. isn't it shaking ye are, from
your occupit to the very phalanxes of you
pedals at the job you've got in hand tt
iucarccra;e Terence Mccarthy ?"
They say twas he shot the bailiff,
shouted enc.
"Divil one than he murthered tn,
sheriifs officer cried another.
"0h, he'll take detachment Of drag
oons from Cilloo," called third.
Come, SAID at last, getting rather
cross the way they was chatting me
'come, I'll bet gallon Of potheen witt
any sportsman iu the room, that I'll taxi
the boy to Dublin castle all by myself.
Done with you !" cried dozen voices
Aud | was booked for about hogs
head Of vhiskey before | knew where
was But wouldn't 90 back only wheI
the excitement of the drink was out ofmc
| felt as if Id deal rather have left i
undone, for they were wild lot, wert
the Macarthys, and it was wild countr,
they lived IN.
The weather cam? Oh wet, | remember
and it was rearly a week before | coulC
get across from shillaloo to Terence Ma
carthy's cabin, which was in the barony
of Tulabard;nc /; though where the bar
ony went 10, and who was the baron OF it
was matter | never could get to know
the bottom of.
1t was JUS, the dusk Of the evening
got to the top Of the hill that looked owe
Tcrenco's cabin; and a dismal hole i
seemed, that same little hag or ding'e
There was a bit of black bog water at ont
end Of it, and the other was Tins cabil
Just a heap Of turf, with hole for thu
smoke to come out
SANDY, my boy," ! said to myself
you'll never come out of that hole alive.
And | looked round to see if there wasn'
some living creature near me if it hac
been only sheep or pig, 1t would have
been comfort, just for companionship
There was a red stresk of light in the sky
and just across it, [ remember, there wal
line of wild geese flying, their long neck'
stretched out and their wings beating ;
slow tine in the air, and [ could jus
hear the whang of them; and the sea
birds screamed and whisted over my head
though it was too dusky to see them. Eth
mon, my heart was like to sink into m.
feet with the loneliness aud the desolatiol
and the danger judged | was in.
If it wasn't for being laughed at, II
have gone back. Well, L dropped dow
into the hollow, and walked up to the cab
in. The door was open and the though
came to me for the moment that they,
all gone off; and pleased I'd have beel
for that. But, no; there was a bit fir
in the corner, and in the darkness | coul,
just see some people crouching down, AM
the old grandmother sitting in her chai
by the peat fire.
"God save all mere !" said, as | walke'
in.
Save yo kindly" replied gruff voic
| from the corner.
And with that sat down on the oil
kish that had been filled with turf, an
pulled cut my pipe and began to smoke
could distinguish objects now in tn
gloom. There was just heap of childre
in the corner, with an old rag GOVERN
them, stepping Just as sweetly, too, as
they d been wrapped in down;and there wa
the mother of them with the babe at he