Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-01-16
Mrs. Blate's Servants Dinner.
A ROW oyEE II, WHETHER IT WAS FISH oi:
MATE HE ATE WITH KNIFE.

ROW OVER II, WHETHER IT WAS FISH oi:
MATE HE ATE WITH A KNIFE.
From the Cork Consiituton.l
The following was heard at last session
in New Ross Thomas Supplee, ON be
ing sworn. said: Il was born i'll the Irish
town ON -
Court-wc do not want your biography.
Witness-Yery well, let lis come to
business. On LIST Of May last | hired wud
Mrs. Blake for el0 year, over and
above diet and lodgin for the lodgin
| don't complain of it, but as for the
victuals. niyer tasted bit of mate from
the day / entered the house till left it.
| think they must have taken the pledge
acen mate in that house twas fish every
dav for dinner. ayther a hakc or Il herrin'.
and they war very grand. too. They
used to call us home every day To our
dinner wul bell: and whin the naybors
wud hear the bell ringin' they'd say,
There's the herrin bell. Then at
night. when I'd come in cxpectin' to
warm myself. I'd have to lie down on
the floor before I could see the fire under
the pot.
Court Let us hear your claim for
wages.
Witness Well. this day, above all the
lays in the wear. | Was atein my dinner,
trying to make the best hand of the fish,
as usual. when Mrs. Blake KEN into the
kitchen. '.Oh, Tom." siz she to me,
''tis awfGlly vulgar 10 ate fish wild a
knife" "Is it, ma am q siz |. ''Oh,
It's shocking entirely" siz she. I'm
not atein' 1t wud knife, ma am, siz |.
Don't | see you," siz she, "wud my
two eyes" Ills wud my mouth I'm
atein' it, ma am, siz |. ''You're an I'M
pident vagabone. siz she, IAN It's not
the first time YOU insulted me, So quit this
house at wanst" ''Give me my wages,
siz |. ''an' | won't stop another mint.
IN give you no wages. siZ she, 50
went away and she OWN me thirty shil-
lngs.
Mrs Blake owe him no wages, for
he managed to be in my debt from the
time he KEN Ia me till he left me. On
the very first day he worked IN my place
he KEN to me-''You wouldn't have tup-
pence about you?' siz he; II want to
buy hit of tobacco.
Mr. Supple-There's wan thing for
got she was Jealous Of me, too.
Mrs. Blake-ls it me?
Mr.. Snpple-Yes, You; did you ever
speak civil word to me from the night
you got me speakin TO the servant girl
down in the bog till left?
Mrs. Blake WAS now sworn, when she
replied to Mr.. Supplies indictment She
said: ''Wan day wint into the kitchen
as he was atein mate. oh, Tom, says
'you can't ate mate to-day i think
can, sez he, I'm getting on purity well !;
lis a little tufi, but We cant have every
thing TO our liken i'll this miserable world.
But don't you fast any?' siz |. Il ate
fast. an | drink fast, siz he But this
is Il fast day. siz | /; there's no mate al
lowed What's the fast for to-day?
siz he This is Wednesday in Quarter
tense, siz l. The devil may care, siz
he, if twas whole tense I'll ate the mate
when get it. Well siz | to him, I'll
never keep any man in my house that
will ate mate of fast day but he never
said another word till he WAS done with
his dinner, an thin he got up and made
speech. tho he was hardly able to spake,
he was So full What have any poor
laborin' boy like me, sez he, but his APP
petite? Il stop i'll your place no longer,
siz he ; but I'll GO and hire III house,
siz he, where there's nayther fast nor
abstinence from one end Of the year to
TIE other"
The case was dismissed