Morris tribune., 1882-01-26
MICK TANDY'S REVENGE.

"And why's the r'ason yen not be m.
wife, Kathlie?"
"Only bekase can't, Mick"
"Whyp"
"Bekase."
'Niver?"
mo, Mick, never!"
There was silence for moment in the
lovely glen of Colony where sweet Cath
ieen was gathering water weeds from the
edge OF great mud puddle, for her green
goslings ut home.
The lover VINO had followed her thithel
was not in holiday nttire. He wore brown
paper cap on his head, leather apron
about him, ard corduroy breeches, gray
stockings and hob nailed shoes on his grea
legs and feet Mick Tandy was stal.
wart, handsome, energetic fellow, who
could have gained the hand of any rustic
beauty In his native country. And he
knew it.
During the silence that followed these
words, he was looking down tenderly on
the young girl before him; but her gaze
was fixed on company of shearers who
were relieving pack of sheep of then
wool, in the far-away sream, which ran
like blue ribbon. through the green
meadow.
Give me yer r'asons for bein' such a
fool, Kathlie, said the young blacksmith.
"Bekase is no r'ason al all"
Don't be botherin me- Mick" said
Kathleen, IN a pleading tone, with tears
hanging on the long lashes that fringed her
gtay eyes.
There's some other boy in my wayT he
exclaimed almost fiercely.
Kathleen turned her head slightly
and little flush came in to hel
cheek.
rs it not that same that ails YEP"
"Andit is" said Kathleen, frankly.
Its the Earls waitin' man. A white
faced fool that chooses rather to dance
around anither fool, with brush I'm hi:
hand, than to do brave, hard work with the
two stout fists God gave him"
Its never bit him!"
as it heinn-kapers son, who wears the
rid diamin' pin and drinks half his fathers
Yhisky?"
Never him!"
at surely can never be Teddy Looney
that's contint to mind sheep and shear 'en
The little spaleen, with curls and pinl
cheeks like girl, and cough like a sic
collie-dog?"
Its just him, Mick!'
Mick threw back his head and laughed
But it was bitter scornful laugh. Loo
at thin two hands o mine, as streng as irol
and as black as coal; hands that had sho'
two hundred horses afore they was twinty
five years old! And my father with two
hunder and fifty pounds O. money in tn
bank for mel Look now at me with a hun
der and saxty pounds of flesh on my bones
and two arms that can thrash any thre
lads in Colooney! Am like himp"
@Yese not, iRddde!"
"Am as poor as him whose father ha
bare enough laid by to bury his family"
"Yese not"
"Thin will you marry me in place c
him?"
'Niver!"
''And why niver?"
''Bekase loves him and he's so pretty
Mick" said KathGe, with amusing frank
ness, and blushing deeply.
"Thin I'll bate him till I put out th
small bit o beauty and the little life that
in him!" cried Mick, iercely.
"Yese not name enough to bate lad LEI
than yersel, Mick! Ye were niyer cowar
afore! Don't be one now! If ye want
fight sarch for one that's yer equal for siE
and beauty; small chance for fndir
onen'
''Il do that, my jewell" cried Mick ,grea
" modified by this shrewd compliment. II
drew heavy sigh and as he walked avs
he said, mournfully, God bless ye, Katt
lie, whatever happens to your poor, YAK.
chisted, voiced thing O. lover. Sc
now it's the shearers We are waitin' for ratt
er than gatherin' water wades for Il
Roslin's."
Teddy and Kathleen had long had seer
plans for emigrating to America-that tel
restial heaven of the Irish. And now Katf
ieen, being seized with fenr of the powe
full young blacksmith, fastened the wee
ding and the departure. So quietly az
quickly were their plans carried out, tn
they had set sail from Liverpool befol
their neighbors knew they were married.
Many are the gay dreams of wealth ar
pleasure that dance i'll the brains of youl
emigrants which are rudely broken or ne
or fulfilled! Teddy and Kathleen we
comparatively rich, for they landed wi
good strong clothes and shoes, two bl
wooden boxes and "twinty pounds o'mol
ey."
Perhaps this innocent boy expected
ind applicants waiting to engage him
tend hocks and to shear them at Cas-
Garden! Perhaps Kathleen, in her igno
ance, thought of stepping at once into
bright little home of her own with loo
ing.glass and a rocking-chair ready to I
feet and to receive herl But there was
call for shepherds, and Teddy was I
strong enough for rough work on farm
railroad; nor yet for enduring the Gle
air of a factory.
They tried first one place and then a
ther; one kind of work and then anoth
till their fortune" of one hundred dolls
was gene. Then they wrote home, un6
charge of secrecy; and fond grandfatt
sent Kathlie ten pounds, with which tn
went west. Next, Teddy fell i'll, and tn
wrote again, and the other grandfather &c
boarded five pounds, and with that tn
came east again
The years flew by, Teddy working VIII,
he was able, and Kathleen working able
not, to keep up home for the two lit
ones who had come to share their misfc
tunes. All this time they had not cross
the path of any old friend who could WI
the truth about their condition to t
neighbors at home; and the proud parer
and grandparents had allowed the impre
sien to get abroad in Colony that Ted
was in fine business and Kathleen gre
lady in the city of Lowell, conyanient
1t had been all that the angry you
blacksmith could do to bear his disappoil
mert and loss. 1t was consolation
him, after they had sailed, to imagine
poor, frail Teddy rent with the agonies
sea-sickness; and we are sorry to say Il
more than once he said prayer not writ
in the book-'that yon white faced you
baby of a man might be s'a-sick till he v
turned wrong side out, and then cast in
the s'a, dead intirly!"
Mick, not withstanding his fiery temp
was, after ALL generous fellow. I
sure that. could he have known what
old friends were passing through ina stIan
land, he would have sent them without !
vealing his agency in the matter, some
his hard earned pounds O. money" Z
he could not forgive their imag mary wea
and happiness.
He grew moody and gloomy, and his :
rents feared for his reason. They ure
him to go to confession-a ceremony
had seldom gone through, as his sins ne
troubled him much. But he went to
priest to please his mother
The well-meaning old father as ked
sorts Of 0unatinna IN 1oorn what fba <rr,,l