Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-09

reddy for his mass.
81 cudn't spake. Me tongue was
that dhry in me throat that We cud
have grated a lump of sugar on it. !
convinced for to shake like a dog
that's too long in the wather, an l was
that afeard that me stomik was say
sick.
"He never sed word, but kept
lookin' at me, quare and murnful.
81 STRUGGLED wud pather and avy !;
it gey me courage, for SEE. I, afther a
little: otis a terrible night, yer river
ince.
"Are We reddy to serve me mass e.
says he, in voice that med me shiver,
for it was as if it KEN out av a nailed
coffin.
"I'm reddy, yer riverince,' says T.,
'but there's not a crayture stirrin.' KEN
up the 6oreen, an there wasn't a
thrack.
"Will | light the althar, yer reverence.
says I. He sed nothin' to this, but wav-
ed me wud his hand for to- go before
him. Me knees was RATTAN together
like peas in mug, but l lurched be
fore him, out into the dark chapel, and
it was as dark as the velvet on YER an
ners collar. barrin' one little light in
tn althar, that med the place look like
the bottom av the lake. And now KEN
the fear on me that cudn't ansur
right, and that l was av no more use
nor that ould ram that's nibblin' over
in tn island there but it's truth Tn
tellin' W, from the mint he comminced
the whole av the responsis KEN to ME
as if they wor wrote in letters av light
on the wall, an | sarved his mass as
well as if Id been in Maynooth Col
lidge for quarthar.
".At the ind av the mass, when all is
over, the priest comes down the step
;sv tn althar, and comminces wud the
Day Proft;'adis or prayer for the dead
Well. sir, | was reddv wud ME rispon
sis. whin he turns to me, an he seq
oh, murther, how I shake whin | pond
her on thin words-sez he, Pray!' seq
he, pray for the sowl av dead man
Pray!' says he, pray as We hope to be
saved. Let her prayer be as white as
the snow that's fallin' from heaven this
blessed night"
81 threw meself OH the steps av tn
althar, and prayed my best. l was
found there the next mornin' by Tim
OShaughnessy, who KEN up to reddy
the 81 APPEL for first mass.
"What the mischief are ye doin there,
you young imp, says he.
II tould him how | sarved Father
Macnanus' midnight mass
''Sarved what ? says he.
"Fatner Tyl,s Macmanus' midnight
mass an l up an tould him all about
it.
''He looked frightened, and qrare,
and seq he:
aye hadn't sup in.
"Sorra a wan, seq |, land wouldn
tell lie in this holy place for the goold
of Arabia
well, says he, "it's awful to think
of, for Father Miles Macmanus died
yesterday, at four o'clock"
Jerry Donovan, when he concluded,
wiped the perspiration from his brow,
and seemed asthough engaged in PRAYER,
thea sudden y resuming his wonted
ncbalance, he exclaimed:
''Here's the breeze yer amer. Take
the rod in the heel of yer first, and
yell be into tenpounder afore long
MARRYING FOR MoKEY.-An sex
tremely sharp and intelligent American
gentleman from the Wet once walked
into the Office Of DR. G. T. Jackson,
the chemist 'Dr. Jackson, presume
said he. eyes, sir. care you alone!
Yes. sir - May / lock the door?"
'and he did SO: then, having looked be
hind the Sofa, and satisfied himself
that no one else pas in the room, he
placed large buudle,,. done up in d
yellow haikerchief, ON the, table, and
opened it "There, doctor, look at
that!" "W ell" said the doctor, 81 see
it." "What do you call that, doctor?"
II call it iron pyrites." "What!" said
the man; ''isnt that stuff geld 2" "No,,"
said the doctor, 'sit s; good for nothing:
it's pyrites.' And putting some over
the fire in a shovel, it soon evaporated
up the chimney "Well.' said the gen
tlemanly man, with a woe begone look,
there's widow up in our town has
whole hill tull .ot that, and I've been
and married her.
Z Several months ago pension agent
II. Z. Bennett, at San Francisco, dis
appeared .mysteriously.- It was then
stated that,his accounts with the Gov