The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-26
.houted aoain "a lost mani"

shouted again. "A lost man"
"Who! Whoo Whooo. :" said voice
right over my head.
''Sure," thinks I "its a mighty quare
place for man to be at this time of night;
maybe its some settler scrapin' sugar off a
sugar bush for the children's breakfast in
the morning. But where's Will and the
rest of them?" All this went through me
head like flash, and thin ] answered his
inquiry:
if it wouldn't Inconvenience your honor,
would yez be kind enough to step down
and show me the way to the house of Dem
mis- O'Dowd?"
"Who! Whoo Whooo y sez he.
"Dennis O'Dowd" sez /, civil enough,
''and dacint man he is, and first cousin to
me own mother"
Who Whoo! Whooo!" sez> he again.
me mother ~ seq ]. ''and as fine a wo-
man as iver peeled a billed pratie wild her
thumb nail, and her maiden name was
Molly McFiggin."
! "Who! Whool Whooo !"
| PADDY McF1ggin bad luck 10 yer deaf
ould head, Paddy McFiegin, say-do you
hear that? And he was the tallest man in
the county Tipperary, excipt Jim Doyle,
| the blacksmith"
| "WhO WhoO! W hooo "
Jim DOYLE the blacksmith" sez l, Eye
good for nothing blaggard nager, and if yez
don't come down and show me the way
this mint I'll climb up there and break
every bone in your skin, ye spalpeen, sc
sure as me name is Jimmy Butler. ~
Who Whoo Whooo." said he, a:
| impident as iver.
i said niver word but lawn down me
| tiol-
began to climb the tree. Whin I got among
the branches l looked quietly around till
saw pair of big eyes inst forninst me-
"Whist,r sez I, land I'll let him have ;
taste of an Irish stick" and wild that ! lie
drive and lost me balance and came tumb
ling to the ground, nearly breaking MI
neck wild the fall. Whin / came to me sin
sis had a very sore head wild lump Oh
it like goose egg, ann half of me Sunday
coat-tail torn off intirely. | spoke to thu
chap in the tree, but could git never al
answer at all, at all.
Sure, thinks I, he must haye gone homt
to rowl up head, for by the powers did
:, MT throw stick for nothin'.
Well, by this time the moon was up and
l could see a little, and ] determined t
make one more effort to reach Dennis's.
/ went on cautiously for a while, ant
thin I heard bell. "Sure," sez l "I'n
comm to settlement now, for hear tn,
church bell" kept on toward the SOUND
till came to an ould COW wild bell on
She started to run, but was too quick fo
her, and got her by the tail and hung on
thinkin' that mayb be she would take me on
of the woods. On we wint, like an oulC
country steeple chase, till, sure enough, w
came out to ciearin' wild house in sigh
wild llghtin it. So, leaving the ould GOV
pufin' and blowin' in shed, went to tn
house, and as luck would have it, who's
should it be but Dennis's?
, He gave me a real IRISH welcome, and in
troduced me to his two daughters -aspurt7
a pair of girls as liver We clapped eyes on
But whin tould him me adventure in th'
woods, and about the fellow who made ful
of me, they all laughed and roared, ane
Dlnnis said it was an owl.
"An ould what?" sez T.
) "Why, an owl, bird" sez he.
"Do ye tell me now?" sez I. "Sure it's
quare country and quare bird"
An thin they all laughed again. till a
last laughed myself, that hearty like, ant
dropped right into chair between the tw'
purity girls, and the ould chap winked a
me and roared again.
Dinnis is me father,i law now, and h
often yet delights to tell our children abou
their daddy's adventure wild the owl.