Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-27

min lodgin' in tn house, an thin he'd 90
out wild thin an Derravarragh Lake, an
what betchune wan thing an another he
got dacint little bit O. money together.
But wirra wirra! that was tn onluckv
money t. more nor Push! Yeh see he
wanted t. get married, an t see his chill
dire grown up about him, an small
blame t. him for that same. So he was
coortln' Nancy Reilly that lived about a
quarther av mile beyant the cross
roads. It's she that was the purity
girsha, an as quite an industhrus
as Push himself. People used T.
wondher why he didn't look out for
a girl wild stOckin', or, maybe, a couple
o. pigs or a COW; but Push was that fond
o. Nancy that troth he'd ha' married her
wild just only tn clothes she stud up in!
Begorra, she hadn't much more, for her
mother was dead--God rest her sowl!-and
her father, Bill Reilly, was a dark soart
av man, a reglar Shaughraun; some
times he'd 60 aft far weeks t'gether an
nobody 'ud iver know nothin about him
Nancy herself usen't t. know, the era
thur. an there she'd be WOrkin' the two
hands ofa her, for ay she hadn't the bit
an the sup ready for her q'ttc5een av a
father, bedad it 'ud be worse for her.
Shure he had no sort av behavior in him
at all! for wan time he ken home he ate
tn seed pratees! an whin man 'ud have
tn maneneSs t. do th' likes O. that shure
what cud yeh expect from him? Ould
Mrs. Hennessey used t. have Nancy up
helpin' her Whin she'd have tn dodgers,
for the gjrshG was right clever cook an
Cud set dinner ay bacon an chickens
an the table fit for King. An that's
how it was that Push an Nancy ken t.
be coortin' wan another.
CHAPTER II.
There was wan time Mrs. Hennessey
had dodgers in the house, three fine
sthrappin' gintlemin, that ken down for
the fishin' on Derravarragh Lake They
war fine, free-handed gintlemin an very
good wild their money, an Whin they war
goin' away wan aV thim-that uset t.
write books-med song about Nancy an
gev her the price av a weddin dhress av
wine colored casIfmer. Bechune the
money that Nancy an Push had the very
night the dodgers left it was nigh an fiji
teen pound; an that very evenin' who
comes up t. Push's but Bill Reilly, Nan
cys father | was there meself, too, an
we war jokin' Nancy an Push whin Bill
SEE, SEE he:
6 Mrs. Hennessey," seq he, 81 dunno
what's the matter wild me, but I've pain
across two av me shoulders, an az yeh
wouldn't mind I'u like to lie down for a
bit on the bed in the room there beyant
anti Nancy's ready t come home"
" Nivir say it twict, to be shure, to be
shurew SEE Mrs. Hennessey; an We must
take taste o sperrets, for maybe it's a
cowld has a grip O. ye.''
" No, Mrs. Hennessey," he SEE, 1
won't take it," SEE he.
An throth me an Push looked at wan
another wild all the eyes we had t. hear
Bill Reilly refusin' the drink!
So he whit in an lay down on the bed
in the little room of-a the kitchen, and we
war in tn other room next the shop hav-
in some tay an white bread and butther,
whin Nancy SEE:
'pu go in an see how me father is
now; he was very quare and silent like
all the evenin', an didn't even take much
heed whin we war countin' the money. :"
{" He was thinkin' how hard it 'ud be
for him t. Civ yeh up" seq Push, quite
soft to her; an shure I don't wondher,
for it's the brakins o. me own heart yeh
are intirely"
"Arrahl be aisy" she seq, wild a beau
tiful red blush in the very heart av her
cheeks, an she ran into the room, but
back she was agin while ye'd be winkin'.
& Me father isn't there" she seq, look
IN frightened-like; "maybe he got sick
an whit home, for the back-doore is
open. [ must go afther him an see.''
No wan cud say agin that, for it was
only right an proper. So aft she wlnt,
an Push whit wild her. | sted wild ould
Mrs. Hennessy antil he KEN back, an
towld us that Bill Reilly hadn't gone home,
an poor Nancy was afeard he was gone
aft an some av his gallivantin's, an near
cried her eyes out.
Well, t. make long story short, the
very next mornin' Push was goin' t pay
the rint that day, an he whit t. get the
money out ay ticken-bag he uset t
keep it in, in the box in the room; an 10!
an behould yeh!-nayther sight nor light
az his money cud he see! 1t was quare,
shure enOugh-an' what was worse, it
wasn't only the rint money that was gone,
but all that he an Nancy had Armed
wild the gintlemin, and the price av four
fine pigs into the bargain. It was too
bad intirely. Push sarched ivirywhere
but he felt purity shure it was robbed
from him, an that the robber was no wan
but Bill Reilly, for no wan but Bill an
Nancy whit into the room!
Say nothin' about it." SEE he t. the
mother, "antil l go over an spake t.
Nancy"
So the poor boy wint UP the road like
a mailman; but whin he got t. Bill's the
paddock was an the doore, an no wan t.
be seen. Thinking that maybe Nancy 'ud
soon be back, he sot anundher the hedge