Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-27
An Irish Letter.
BY ALDERMAN DONNELLY.


TULDYMUCCLosCRAG, PARISH Oh
BULLYRAGET, NEAR BALLY
sCHLUGHGUTTHERY, IN THE
COUNTY Kilkenny, IN IRE
LAND.
By Dear Nephew: I havn't
sent you letter since the last time
l wrote to you, bekase We moved
from our former place OF living
and | couldn't tell where letthef
would find you; but ! now, with
pleasure, take up my pin to in
form you of the death of your un.
Gle, Fitzpatrick. who died very
suddenly last week, after , linger.
ing illness of six months.
The paor man was in violent
commissions during the whole
time of his sickness, lying perfect
iy quate and spacheless all the
time talking incoherently and
calling for wather,
had no time to inform you OF
his death sooner, except / had
wrote to by the last post, which
whit Off tin days before he died,
and then you'd postage to pay.
l am at a loss to tell what his
death was occasioned by, but
fear it was by his last sickness;
for he was niver we'll tin days to-
gether during the whole time of
his confinement; aud believe his
death was occasioned by his ating
too much of rabbits stuffed with
pase and gravy, or pase and gravy
stuffed with rabbits-I can't tell
which. But be that as it may be,
as soon as he brsthed his last the
docthers gave over all hopes of his
recovery. can't tell you any
thing about his age, for you know
that in March mkt he would have
been just twenty-five years ould,
lackin tin months, and had he
lived till that time he would have
been just six months dead.
His property now revolves to
his mkt kin, who all died some
time ago, so that / expect it will
be divided between us; and you
know his property was something
very considerable, for he had
line estate that was sould to paw
his debts, and tho remainder he
lost in horse race. But it was
the opinion of everybody at the
time that he would have won the
race if the horse he run against
hadn't been too fast for him.
L niver saw man. and the doc
thors all say 80, that observed di-
rection or took medicine bstther
than he did. He said he would as
lave take bitther alloways as SUI
gar candy, if it only had the same
taste, and ippecachuhanna as
whisky punch, if it would only
put him in the same humOr for
fighting.
But poor soul! he'll niver ate or
thrink mOre-and you haven't q
Twin relation in the wide world,
barring myself and your too cous-
ins who were kilt in the last war
can't dwell on this mournful
subject, and | shall sale my let
ther with blask sailing wax, and
put on it your uncIe's coat of arms,
80 / beg you not to brake the sale
whin you open this letther, and
don't open it till three or fodr
days after you recaive it, by which
time you will be prepared for the
sorrowful tidings.
Your sweetheart, Judy MCGEE,
sinds her love unknOwnst to me.
When Pat Finnegan arrives in
Ameriky ak him for this letther,
and if he doesn't know it from the
rest, tell him it's the one that
spakes of your uncle's death and
sailed in black. / remain your af-
fectionate old grandmother,
JUDY O'HooLIGAN,
To Mister Larry O'Hooligan,
lately of the town of Tullymuc-
closcrag, in the Parish of Bully
raget, near Ballyschlughgutthery,
in the county of Kilkenny, in Ire
land, now in Ameriky, forninst
the pump.
n. B.-Don't write to me again
till you recaive this.