The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-04


behold. Even in summer sunlight it look
Ell dismal swamp.
Il had four good miles 10 pu: undue,
me-" Jerry resumed, fur good miles, a.
bad as tin, tor il wasall up bill, an' 4, OF y
l knew the short OUTS on me road as well
as COW, be me soul an it's In the bottom
av The lake here among the salmin-bad
cess To thin, why won't they take the Ill
CANT flies that ser amer is timpting Thin
wud-I d be, as shure as there's bill on a
crow.
1t WAS tough work, yer amer, agin' wind
an snow, an | goin entirely agin' me likiu'
an, not a word Nv what Father Mvles had
di>coorsed to me in the moruin', but Was
clane bet out o me head. More nor twice.
was gUiL' for to turn Jack, but somethln'
tould me to go on. There was a wake at
Phil DImphy's, and dance at the sheebeen
beyant GleLdalubagh, but somethIn, sed,
90 on, Jerry yer wanted, an | wiut, wud
me hrosue.."
BY Jove Jerry, if had been in your
place, IA have left Father Macnanus In
the larch," said /.
$50 We wud, at that's just yer ignorance, p"
retortsd Jerry, in an offended tone. '.Av
ye hear me out, yen see was in the right
in purSun' the path, but follow yer own
way. Ay We don't like tie sthory, We can
cave il, SIR"
A goliosue restored mutual conf lence,
md lie resumed:
"WhIn | got to the chapel there was
Il strlm OF light .ni crcpt round to ve.-
= ~ c""f, ana kn"ckrI esp, ctfLi ike, bot
70" answer. k"nucked a.-n: 40 answer
~ "a, .atci, pas reI the doar. the last
-''.i ".,a bar''i"g "uf, aui there wasut d
t,tniiui - fire.
tie hasn't conn Net,' says | Ia meS"if.
:" /, nampr the fire, aal w,nt Tor To
STIR 1t, when felt IN heart drop INTO me
Lr"gurr, and me hair tiy up to the cr,lln.,
i,r forrnens. mr stud Father Ma,mauus,
as white as if he vas hrin' waked, and
looking qunre and mournful He was in
his vl,tniIntS, ready for his mass
ccudn's spake. Ne tongue wa that
dry in me throat that sc cui have grated
lump nv sugar on 1t. | comminced Tor to
shake like il dog that's too long in the
wather, an was that afeared that me
stomik was saysich.
lie never sed word, but KEEP lookin, at
me, square and mournful.
struggled wud patther and avrv; it
sev me courage, for seq /, aft..er little,
Its terrible night, yer risereuce'
Are We reidy to sarve me mas,?n seq be,
in Il voice shas made me -hlver, for it was
as II 1t KEN cut of a nailed eDfkn.
I'm redly, yer riv-rence, says ], but
theis'- lot IL crayture stirriu'. | KEN up
the boreen, an there wasn't a ttrach.'
Are ye reddy TO sarve ne mass says
NC ~ ", III luS siile awful voice.
.'W:ll light the athar, yer riverince?"
says |. lie sed nothin' to this, but waved
me wud his band for to go before him.
Me knees were rafting together, like pays
in a mug, but lurched before him, out in
to the dark chapel, an it was as dark as
the velvet On yer anner's collar, bearin' one
little light N tn althar, that med the place
look ike the bottom av the lake. An
now KEN the fear en- me that | cuin't
ansur ght, an that was Nv no more use
nor that ou!d ram that's nbbln' over in til
island there, but it's the truth I'm tellin'
We, from the mint he comminced, the
whole az the respoDsis KEN to me, as it
they wor wrote in letters av light on the,
wall and | srved his mass as well as if III
been 10 Maynooth Colleige Tor a quar-
Their
Yer not a Catholic, M1>ther Bowle-.
an mebbe We never heered mass, or was
IN chapel nayther!"
Tbs was put intrrrngatively.
Il am not Cattiu!ic, Jerry, hut have
heard mass more than nncc," | replied
I'm glad ot it, for yell understand wha
IL goin' to tell We, 81 At the ind av til,
mass, when ali i over, the priest cu,ne,
down the step, av tn altar. an COMM.
c-s wud the Dog Protm,dis or prayers fnr