The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-01-30

eve left Euston at 1928 p. m.
didn't feel much inclined to sleep, and
you know I am great smoker, SO /
turned into q compartment sacred to the
consumption of the soothing weed.
There was only one occupant besides
myself, man of about forty, well
dressed, but not, to my mind, a gentle
man. Indeed, at first sight put him
down to be what he was, a well-to-do
Irish farmer returning from business
trip to town, and indulging himself in
the unwonted luxury of first-class car
riagc.
Whatever other faults those Irish
have, they are certainly most friendly
race. By the time we got to Rugby I
had told my fellow-traveler all about
my projected plans for seeing his native
country, and found that he rejoiced in
the name of Cormack, and lived in the
County of Westmeath, not far from the
Longford boundary. Before we reached
Chester we were sworn friends, and by
the time we arrived at Holyhead 1 had
promised to pay him a visit during my
stay in his part of the country. This
visit it was which gave me such taste
of Irish customs as 1 could very well
have dispensed with.
"Not to delay too long, I shall pass
over all the incidents of my first fort
night or so in the Emerald Isle, they
being no doubt exactly what any one
else would have experienced under like
circumstances. At. length 1 reached
Longford, got through my work there,
and determined to call on my new-made
friend, for which purpose 1 took train
to a little station called Edgeworthtown,
and there obtained an outside car with
lean horse and a very ragged driver,
vino undertook for the sum of eighteen
pence per double mile Qrish) to convey
me to my destination. AS to the
name of said destination, 1 dare
not venture on it. 1t began
with the usual I" Bally,' ended, I think,
with "y" and had, I fancy, about
four syllables between, of nature ut
terly unpronounceable to English lips.
Suffice it to say that we got there at
length, and pulled up at the door of a
very respectable slated farmhouse, with
matched out-buildings and well-kept
grass field, on which two or three young
colts were feeding, of slimness of limb
and beauty of make that proclaimed
their owner a racing man.
ssThe said owner met me at the door
with an ELUSIVE welcome, and asked me
into well furnished parlor, the taste of
whose ornaments contrasted favorably
with what 1 should have expected in the
house of an English farmer of the same
rank. Presently the mistress of the
house and pretty, fresh looking daugh-
ter entered and shook hands with me
with native politeness. I expressed a
wish to see the farm, and Cormack
readily offered to show it to me, first,
however, saying few words in a low
tone to his wife, who went out of the
room. A moment after heard wheels
driving away outside.
"sOnly the car, Yer Honor said
Cormack, in answer to my look of in
quiry. Il made free to send it away
for ye; it's with us yell be stopping
now, phase God
So 1t was true enough. My faithless
Jehu having been paid in advance by
me had been only too ready to depart,
and unless I chose to walk back to
Edgeworthtown, which did not feel in
clined to do, 1 was to ali intents and
purposes fixture. At first 1 was in
cined to be annoyed, but the exquisite
naiveness of the whole proceeding
amused me, and was really fattered
by the solicitude of my would-be host;
so, after a few half remonstrances,
was induced to write telegram for my
baggage, which Cormack contided to a
young imp who appeared to be doing
odd jobs about the place, bidding him
run over to the Post-office and give it
to Mister Moran himself and tell him
its Immediate
81 stayed some little time at the Cor
macks', seeing the country in company
with my host, and forming my ideas of
Irish political economy as it is, and as it
should be, which, being rather hobby
of mine, won't now trouble you with!
There was a gentleman's family living
in the neighborhood, which soon made