The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-10
AN IRISH FABLE.
"Thc Bad Son and the Good Son"

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Gan it was once long ago, in the oulc
country" said Mrs. Biddy, "there wa
Twin fine, clane, honest, poor wildly
woman, an she havin' two sons, an she
fetched the both of them up fine anc
careful, but one of them turned out bac
intirely, An one day she says to him
saws she:
i've given you your Twin as long a:
liver l can, and it's you must go out into
the wide worruld 10 sake your fortune
Mother viii" says he. -,
can will you take a big cake wild
me curse, or little cake and me ole'''
ing2" says she.
1.-THE big cake, sure, says he.
$50 she baked big cake ana cursed
MIN, and he whit away laughln by
and by he came forninst q spring IN tne
woods, and sat down to ate his oinner
oil his cake, and small, httle Oi'u '"'
on the edge of the spring.
"Give me bit Of that cake Tor me
little ones in the nest, says she, and ne
caught up q stone to throw at her.
~7Iye scarce enough for meseIt, says
he. and she bein' fairy, put her bake
m the spring and turned 1t rs BLACK as
ink and went away up in the trees,
And while he looked for her to Kill her,
n fox went away wild his cake.
$50 he wlnt away from that place
very mad, and mkt day he stopped, very
hungry, at u farmers house, and hired
out TO tind the COWS.
"sBe wise, says the farmers wife, for
the next field is belongin' to giant, and
if the cows get into his clover ne will
kill YOU dead as a sthone
But the bad son laughed and whit
away out to watch the COWS; and before
noon time he whit to Shape up in the
tree and the cows all wint in the clover
an out come the giant aad shook him
down out Of the tree an killed HIM
dead, and tina. was the ind Of the bad
son.
"And by the next year the poor wildly
woman, she says to to the good son;
you must go out into the wide
worruld and sake your fortune, for l
can kape you no longer, says she.
Mother | will says he.
" An will you take big cake Wild
me curse ora little cake wid me bless
ing?
"'The little cake, says he.
$50 she baked it for him and gave
him her blessing, and he wint away, and
she weepin' after him font and loud.
An by and by he came TO the same
spring in the woods where the bad son
was before him, and the small little
bird sat again ON the side of it.
"'Give me a bit of your cakeen for
me little ones in me nest, says she.
al will, says he, an he broke off Il
foine piece, and she dipped her bake in
the spring and toorned it into sweet
wine; and when he bit his cake, shure
an she had toorned it into fine plum
cake intirely, an he ate nm drank an
wint on lighthesrtcd. And mkt ne come
TO the farmers house,
"WIll You lind the COWS for me! says
the farmer.
al will, says the good man.
"Be wise saws the farmers wife, for
the clover field bcyant is bolongin to
the giant, an if you leave in the cows he
will kill you dead.
"'Neyer fear says the good son; l
don't ,lape at my wurruck
And he gor. out into the field and
lug, Il big stone up in the tree, and thin
send, livery COW far out into the clover
ded-, and goes back ag'in to the tree,
And out come the giant a-roarin' so that
YOU could hear the roars of him mile
away; and when he finds the COW boy,
lie goes under the tree to shake him
down, but the good little son slips out the
big stone, and Il fell down and broke
the giants head intirely. So the good
son wint away to the giants house, and
it bein' full to the caves ofgold and sill
Yer and splendid things!
"See what fire luck comes to folks
that is good and honest! An he whit
home and fetched his old mother an they
lived rich and continted, and died very
old and RESPECTED. "-Sarah o. Jsre>H IN
81 Nicholas for JuiH