The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-06-14
TIN MUkNAGH.


then. We lived up near the Gap Of bal
linascorney about nine miles from Dublin,
at the foot Of the big mountain of Secham,
and in that lonely out-ot-the. way place it
WAS not much we heard but rumors of
what was going ON. But one lovely Sum-
mer mornn' my father came home from
Dublin Market with bis face as long as my
arm.
"Mushu, what ais We at all, at all ?"
says my mother; did We ate anythin'
that disagreed wild We ?" say she.
"Neither bit nor sup" says he, " has
passed my lips this day. | hadn't Stun
ich for It, 1 see what ! never seen be-
forehead men lynn in the streets. The
boys ris last night and murdered the chief
justice in Thomas street, and there's ter
rihle slaughter goin' on, and the b3Y5 is
bet and is runnIn' IN all directions to the
mountains ark, Pm afeard of my life
Of belIl' took for one of them, though be
this an be that Pm as innocent as an an.
GEL" says he
"Sure ifyou're innocent" says my moth
CT, and have the good conscience, what
have you to fear? Pm ashamed of you,
Tim Murna h." saws she-1or she was IA
| and there was not Il man In the whole
barony but was afraid of her, and my
father most of all. Oh it did you good
| to hear the talk of her when she was
reused
"Anyway you're just in time," says she,
for the mare has slipped her spanchel.
an maybe it's over the Gap she Is now,
with her neck bruck, all OWN to yerself
bein' in Dublin instead of mindin' the. stock.
Oh, know yer ways, Tim Murnagh, my
man." says she.
Nell, my father slnked off with him
self, in a way he had when the mother
disc0ursed him, and went to look after the
mare. And he was NOT long gone, when
Il gentleman rode up to the door, an the
eyes nearly dropped out of me at the
sight OF him. Bedad,I thought he was no
less than Bony himself; he had lovely
green uniform on him, an proud militia
ry look, an | remember the pale hand
some face of the big dark eyes TO this dav.
"Wlll you hide a hunted man ?" he
said Il am Robert Emmett of whom
you may have heard there is price on
my head, and the dragons are not FIR
bohiu1 MOL
"Arrah," says my mother,'' | wouldn't
turn "a pig from the door, that ken to it
with price on its head, let lone gen
| tleman'
"I would not be acting fairly to you,"
he said, "it did not remind you of the
danger you expose yourself to In shielding
me. But | am at your mercy"
| "Oh IN trOth, I'm not afeared of bag
| godets or Dragons" says my mother;
g it's the mare Pm thinkin' of-that that
bosthoon Tim but come in, sir, come in.
Here, Patsy" says she to me, hunt the
garran that the gentleman rode into the
brakes. Fax, Major SIR wouldn't find
him there. Sure, if they seen the horse,
sir, it would be all up with you OFF With
you, Patsy"
Away | went on the back of the old
pantin' horse to the waterfall in the head
of the Gap, and turned him loose there,
pitched the saddle and bride in a bog
hole, an to make more sure, put span.
| chel On the horse tC keep him there, and
back come wohdcIin' what would come
of all. Well, when | came to the
boreen goin' up to the farm, ] heard Il
clatterin' and trottin' behind me, and sure
enough there were the Dragons | crept
and told her what ! had seen.
you're just in hme," says she; "come
IN here. Mind" says she, be has had the
typhus favor, and you are bathin his
head; there's the wet CLOTH
Oh, ify you seen the look Ct him in the
bed-the white hunted face of him, an
the long hair, an the rewlin eyes, In
troth, it was as good copy OF favor
as ever you could see.
Well, out went mother into the ward,
and soon | heard loud cursin' and talkin'
outside.
ole came this way, tell you, woman.n
"Bedad, an if he did, he didn't stop
here,' says my mother as bould as We
PLACE. But sure you can sarch the
house, gintlemin, if We like"
So closer came the step, and big man
in red coat darkened The doorway.
"Oh, step aisy, step aisy, for the love of
heavenr' said my mother; "My poor
boy is down with the favor He drop
ped into it last week, and it's afeard | am
of his dyin' am, The darlin', for his broth
er went with it last Lady, day, with spots
on him as big as plates"
Well, | would not like to mention the
curses that KEN from my bould warrior
when he heard this. Anyway be didn't
come in, and | heard him outside, cough
in, and spittin', and blowin' his nose, and
in few minutes away the throop of them
galloped. Nothin' more happened, and
the evenin' came on, but not sign of my
father could be seer anywhere. For once
IL my life | seen my mother in fright.
"Maybe the sogers had taken him.
Maybe he had a drop ; an fell over the
Gap. Maybe he conldn't find the mare.
an was afeard TO come home. Maybe
She was an INFAMOUS woman, and it was
wonderful the thoughts that KEN into her
head. But at all events we sat up, the
pair of us, watcLin', and about one o'clock,
says my mother
!" Whisht, alanna, do you hear any
thin?
Its the pig" says L.
ARA" says she, "did you ever hear
the pig say Biddy? It's your father
Twin or dead ! think it's in the out.
house," says she. "Well, in the name of
al, the saints, we'll 90 ana see.n
Wild that she lit a blessed candle, and
out we went into the clubhouse, and there
in the fiourbin in the corner, there was
sich pushin' and grantin that you'd think
it was alive
Let me on" says splutterin' voice,
let me out-l'm chokin' y We lifted
the lid of the bin-the hasp had caught
and out KEN nv father, n white Iniin.