Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-05

| have, they are certainly a 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 I had
promised to pay him visit during my
stay in his part of the country. This
visit it was which gave me such a taste
of Irish customs as & could very well
have dispensed with.
a" Not to delay too long, 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 I reached
Longford, got through my work there,
and determined to call on my new-made
friend, for which purpose took train
to little station called Edgeworthtown,
and there obtained an outside car with
lean horse and a very ragged driver,
who undertook for the sum of eighteen
pence per double mile Orish) to convey
me to my destination. AS to the
name of said destination, I dare
not venture on it. 1t began
with the usual 6 Bally,' ended, I think,
with "y'' and had, 1 fancy, about
four syllables between, of a 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 outsbuildings 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 racing man.
"The said owner met me at the door
with an ELUSIVE welcome, and asked me
into a well furnished parlor, the taste of
whose ornaments contrasted favorably
with what should have expected in the
house of an English farmer of the same
rank. Presently the mistress of the
house and a pretty, fresh looking daugh-
ter entered and shook hands with me
with native politeness. l expressed a
readily offered to show it to me, first,
however, saying few words in low
tone to his wife, who went out of the
room. A moment after l heard wheels
driving away outside.
"'Only 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
eft was true enough. My faithless
Jehu having been paid in advance by
me had been only too ready to depart,
and unless chose to walk back to
Edgeworthtown, which l did not feel in
clined to do, l was to ali intents and
purposes fixture. At first was in
clined to be annoyed, but the exquisite
naiveness of the whole proceeding
amused me, and 1 was really fiattered
by the solicitude of my would-be host;
so, after few half remonstrances, 1
was induced to write telegram for my
baggage, which Cormack confded 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 a hobby
of mine, won't now trouble you with.
There was a gentleman's family living
in the neighborhood, which soon made
the acquaintance of, as in that out-of
the-way locality the arrival of a
stranger was as great an event
as that of foreign potentate in
London. Several afternoons I spent
pleasantly at the big house, playing
lawn-tennis with the young ladies of the
place, whom I found to be far more pro-
ficient in the art than their English sis
tiers, probably from the solitude of their
country life having obliged them to con-
centrate their energies on that particu
lar form of amusement.
"One day that had been spending
in the above manner, and on which l
had accepted kind invitation to dinner
en- fdnaille, 1 noticed that Mr.. M
seemed more absent than usual, and
trife quick-tempered as though he had
been annoyed by something or some
body. When the ladies had left us, and
we were sitting over the usual post
prandial bottle of wine, he took letter
from his pocket and showed it to me.
"sThat's the kind of thing we have to
put up with here, Mr.. Ellerslie,' said he.
You mustn't 60 away with your ideas
of the country too much couleur de rose
"Ihat was in truth strange produc-
ton. It was written, or rather labori-