The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-13
SKETCHES IN IRELAND.
~ II, EumOr, Oddities, and IRREGULARITIES
of the Emerald Isle.


In the Irish post-boy we are not pre-
sented with the white jacketed, silk
hated, top booted, and bright-spurred
gentleman we are accustomed to In
England, as trim as his own horses, and
as silent, till he touches his hat to get
his fees for driving them The Irish
post-boy, on the contrary, is as scanty
IN his attire as he is abundant in his in
telligence, having always something to
tell his passenger of the localities they
pass through, as though he took him for
a book-maker who was taking notes on
the way. He fulfiils double function
he is guide as we'll as driver, and
his humor often lies as much in what
he does as in what he says. He will
commence something in this fashion.
"Do you see that house, yer honor, /
yonder? 1 suppose you know that's
Yes. do, Mr.. darcy is very rich,
believe ?"
+" Well, sir, maybe he is and maybe
he isn't" /
"Why, thought he was man of
fortune"
Well, you see he was purity well of,
sir, till he got how'd of the property"
It'll he got it What do you
mean ?"
"Why, sir, when he was heir to the
property he had great expectations,
and SO, on the strength of that, you
see, he got whatever money he wanted"
Well, and so he ought, whom he
was heir to five thousand pounds
year ="
"That's true, her honor, true, sir
But then, you'll understand, he was
heir to five thousand pounds year
that was Spint ?"
"Oh, I see /"
$50, when he got the property, of
course the gintleman was ruined"
"Hillo take care-yOu were nearly
in the ditch then"
"Never fear, sir; it's that black uard
mare that is always shyin'!-Hurrup J.
" How close her ears are cut -
"Yis, they are sir; oh, they're close
enough, but nothing Will cure the vii
lain"
"Cure her? How do you mean?'
Why, sir; I persaved that whenever
she started she always cooked her ears
up so cut them of, you see, to make
her lave off the trick of 'startin'; but
bad luck to the vagabOne; she is just as
| bad as iver."
I'M particularly dangerous part of
the road. with a preciPice on one side
of you, you observe the rost-boy keeps
casting
AN INoUIRING GLANCE
Toward his vehicle.
"What's the matter 2" you inquire;
"rather an awkward bit of road here.
Oh it's nothin', sir; it's grand
prospect"
"Yes-of going over. Why, it is
some hundred feet to the bottom"
"Well, it may be; but look at the
| Il ,ko1r oh,
they're grand, sir; they beat the world
for dignity, You'd never see the likes
again if you was to go over twenty prec-
ipussess"
After many other tales and difficult
ties, you reach your journeys end, and
then the post-Doy, as you have sur
missed, expects a good gratuity. You
give him what you consider to be q
handsome reward of his services, but
still he is not contented.
"Sure," he says, "your honor
, wouldn't mind another shilling ?"
"No," you reply, " think I've paid
! you literally"
: "But you'll consider the way 1 drove
you, sir ?"
, "Not a pleasant one, by any means.
"And the power of stories 1 told
: a Some of which I have heard be
: fore"
0 "Well, then, give me another shil
Q lin sir, and I'll tell you somethin
! which will undertake to say you neve
heard before"
0 Every good, then, there's shilling
Now what's the story I have neve
0 heard ?"
"Wen, then, of coorse your homo
\ remembers the three miles we CAM
? along with the cliff upon one side o
us?"
;, Remember it ? shall never forge
: it,"
= Well, then, you don't know, sir
!, that drove you them three miles with
q out linchpin {? "
: A stranger on one occasion asked
q oar driver to set him down at a certain
. address in Dublin which was only rOun'
an adjacent corner, and when Pat hat
= brought him to the spot the gentleman
4 complained of it as an imposition
: You might have pointed out the plac
to me-" Pointed it out !" exclsime,
h Pat. a." Is it a fnger-post you'd max
I of me? Sure, then. You might hav
; paid me for my pointing, and left m
n where you found me-" To return, how
= ever, to our traveller. He is driven t
an hotel, and despite the predictions @
the rival car driver, he retains hi
l. powers of msstication, and readily call
for breakfast. Here another nations
characteristic comes out in the perso
of the waiter.
, He does not move about like othe
q walters, formal and smooth as his ow
, napkin, absorbed in the point of wins
you'll take next, and only mutterin
70 the "Yes, SIR" or " No, sir" of
10 London place of entertainment. ii
ie gives yeu politics with the hot wa e.
10 and fiattery with the buttered rolls.
You look wonderful we'll, sir, aftt
d the say-sickness. Some gentlemen loo
4, as yellow as lemons, and maybe twiC
II as sour They say the tay will ris,
IL sir, since the French went TO war wit
Morocco. Great meeting to-day
y Dublin, sir. 1 suppose you are goin
=. to attend it; perhaps you name to speal
y sir" No, indeed I don't." "Ol
> I'm sorry for th3,at-yqp've such
le saltwater p &c We have, sir" rs
le good ?" "'Pon my honor 1 don't know
u sir-I never drink it myself"
: THE WONDERFUL CoMPosURE
nv OF some of these persons, though som,
rs times very irritating, Is certainly vel
n laughabie. I once learned what VI
in the judicious rule Of Galway wait,
10 for taking liberties. IhRd left my not
e. book on the breakfast-table while
rs went for some letters that were in m
ut bedroom, and on my return saw th
parsonage quietly inspecting my priva
N records. On my Teproving With son
~ emphasis the impertinence he had bee
of guilty of, he answered with the create
ID calmness: "Oh, 1 beg your pardo
sir I did not think yOu were in II
room, or I wouldn't have thought
W doing it. "
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