River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17

we did not speak during the quadrille.
The pink youth--confound his hmm.
dence-struck up an acquaintanceship with
her, and treated the vultule woman badly.
| felt inclined TO hurl him at his partner.
lmpale him upon her nose, and rush fran
tically from the house. tn charming dis
dain with which | was treated BY Miss
Blake rendered me more miserable, and il
was only when the laws of society COM
PEELED her, on the conclusion of the dance.
TO take my arm, in order to be conducted
TO the place from whence she came. that
vontured to explain
/ implore of you TO forgive me. did
not know what | was saying, | am worse
than a bore. Hear me for one moment -
and In few eager words honestly reveal
ed to her the irritated and mhamed condi.
ton OF my mind upon finding myself
stranded in scene so bitterly at yarience
with my mood, and compelled, as IL were
to drink the bitter cup TO the utmost dregs
My pleading was full of the redeeminp
Influence OF earnestness, and, | succeeded
~ achieving her forgiveness. She danced
with me again and again. saw the tallow-
faced green-grocers paid off, met the morn.
ing milk without tlinching, add returned
the playful banter Of the cabbies in mood
so utterly different from that which | had
pictured TO myself few short hours pre-
viously, that
" Pshaw who can control the inner
mechanism of the heart
One glorious morning in August last
found me seated beside the driver of one
OF Bianconi's long cars which travel be-
tween Westport and Cliitden, and as a
consequence through the heart of the
widest and most picturesque scenery i'm
Connemara, | had, amongst other vows,
registered one--that, so soon as circum.
stances would permit, | would undertake n
pilgrimage TO Boljolderum Hall--to the
shrine of Miss Katherine, alias Miss Kitty
Blake.
IL is unnecessary for me to state that
had many reasons To urge me TO take this
excursion, and that had one in particular;
in fact, my heart had, somehow or other.
slipped from beneath my waistcoat-had
travelled, in company with Miss Blake, to
her mountain homeland it was with a
view " recovering it, aud of taking the
young lady in question into the bargain. if
my luck was up, that was now perched
high in air, behind a pair of roaring
gimlets," and jogging along the roadway
skitting that desOlate but romantic inlet of
the Atlantic, known AS the Killerin.
In happy moment | negotiated with
the driver, Phil Dempsey. for possession of
the box seat, and almost ere we had Quilted
the town of Westport, | had come ON close.
If not confidential, term with that worthy
son of the whip.
Phil is crooked, hard-featured. sen
tentous little man, whose word is law,
whose decision is an uitimdtum. He knows
every man, woman and child along the
road-iheir belongings, their respective
histories, their hopes, and their fears. He
carries small parcels for the quality" and
letter,f good cause is shown why il could
not travel by the legitimate course of Her
Majesty's Mail He has all the Dublin
news, and is regarded in the light of =" a
knowledgeable man.
Iustinctiyely led up the subject nearest
to my heart.
Ne know the Blakes av Boliolderun ?
Begorra, do thin, breed seed and ginera.
ton. They're dacent people av the rale
Ould stock Miss Kitty travelled wud me
few weeks ago; she KEN from Dublin,
but she was over the wather beyant, in
London. SOrfa a much good that wud do
her, or any wan else"
l expressed a hope that she was looking
well after her "trip.
"Och, rosy an well, shure enough and
why wudnt she? Her father thinks dia-
moflds is TOO poor for her, and her mother
wud burn The house, ay she riz her little
finger. They'll not be thrublcd 'vud her
long she's too dawny a ciatu,e for the
boys TO lave alone. TUX Misther Crane
from Dublin over to the hall last week, an,
be me song, he was mighty tendher on her.
This was alarming | endeavOred 10
probe into the antecedcnts of this abOmina-
BILE person, but could only ascertain, after
a deal of circumlocutiUn, that he was the
possessor of ian illigantpor mantle" and
that he was Z" a nice man, an nice man
nered man.
Good morning, Father James, good
morning kindy.p
This was addressed to Catholic clergy
man, who was swinging along the road
with iaunty air, bespealAing themoton of
one to whom twenty-mile walk was no
uncommon occurrence.
"Thats wan o the most kDowledgeable
min in this country, sir, observed Demp-
sey, when we had proceeded little dis
lance ultj ut NdS Mdilnl UT lulHtlls tNtt
as he is-an' there's the spot he added,
pointing to Il small patch of strand directly
beneath us.
"This Is how II KEN about, sir-Git up,
We bastes!" addressing the horses, "dOtl't
let the gintleman see yez thrate me that
way git up. Well, SIR, Father James was
on his bades and his brewery one win.hry
mornin, and he was prayin' away, whin a
boy KEN ruunin' up the boreen cryin'
murther an that a man was wrackcd below
on The rocks fornnst yc an that he wasn't
expected for 70 live, an for Father James
10 run 10 him at wanst for the love OF
Heaven. So Father James run the bades
aud the brewery into the pocket av his
shmalI.cl0thcs, and away wud him 10 that
very spot. sir, ms nimble as roe an shurc
enough, there was poor say-iarin' man
lyin' for dead on the say rack, an not as
much breath in him as would cause the eye
ay "A nudge to wink.
Have none of yea tent ay sperrits
about ven, 2 says Father James. " Have
mono az yez o tent av sperrits 10 put betune
This poor mans shammy an the cOwldY"
saws Father James, risin' at II.
- Now. sir, they were all afcared 10 sa,
Yes bckase he denounced pOtheen from
the althar. an If they wor 10 say Yes,