The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-01-26
MICK TANDY'S REVENGE.

MICK TANDY'> REVENGE.
and why's the r'ason yell not be m,
sWite K.thlie?"
"0nly hekase can't, Mick"
"Why?"
"Bekase."
"Niver?'
mo, Mick, neyeri'
There was silence for moment in the
lovely glen of COLONY where sweet Cath
leen was gathering water weeds from the
edge of a great mud puddle, for her green
goslings at home.
The lover wno had followed her thithe,
was not in holiday attire. He wore brown
paper cap on his head, leather apron
about him, ard corduroy breeches, gray
stockings and hob nailed shoes on his great
legs anu feet. Mick Tandy was stall.
wart, handsome, energetic fellow, who
coulu have gained the hand Of any rustic
beauty 10 his native country. And he
knew it.
During the silence that followed these
words, he Was locking down tenderly on
the young girl before him; but her gaze
was fixed on company Of shearers who
were relieving pack OF sheep OF their
wool, in the far away rean, which ran,
like blue ribbon, through the green
meadow.
Give me yer r'acons for bein' such a
fool Kathlis, said the young blacksmith.
"Bekase is no rason al ALL"
Don't be botherin' me Nick" said
Kathleen, IN pleading tone. with tears
hanging on the long lashes that fringel her
glay eyes.
There's some other boy in my way!" he
exclaimed almost fercely.
Kathleen turned her head slightly,
and little flush came in to her
cheek.
us it not that same that ais YEP"
"Andit is. said X .thleen, frankly.
''It's the E IRIS waitiu' man. A white
faced fool that chooses rather to dance
around anither fool, with brush Fin his
hand, than to do brave, hard work with the
two stout fists God gave him!'
Its never q bit him''
rs it theinn- kaper's son, who wears the
rid diamn' pin and drinks half his fathers
whisky2"
Never him!"
at surely can never be Teddy Looncy,
that's contint to mind sheep and shear 'en:
The little spaleen, with curls and pink
cheeks like girl, and q cough like sick
collie -dog?"
Its just him, Mick!"
Mick threw back his head and laughed
But it was a bitter scornful laugh. "LocE
at thin two hands o mine, as strong as iron
and as black as coal; hands that had shod
two hundred horses afore they was twinty-
five years old! And my father with two
hunder and fifty pounds o money in the
bank for me! Look now at me with hun.
der and saxty rounds Of flesh on my bones
and two arms that can thrash any three
lads in Colooney! Am like bim?''
"Yese not, andade!"
cam as poor as him whose father has
bare enough laid by to bury his family?"
"Yese not"
him."
''And Why ni7er:"
':Bazase loves him and he's SO pretty,
Mick" said K s:hlia, with amusing frank
ness, and bl1,hiug deeply.
Thin III bate him till | put out thu
small bit O. beauty and the little life that's
in him. cried Mick, tiercely.
"Yese not name enough to bate lad les
than yersel, Nick! Ye we're niver coward
afore! Don't be one now! If ye want tt
fight sarch for one that's yer equal for sz
and beauty; small chance for indin
oner'
''Il do that, my jewell" cried Mick, great
" notified by this shrewd compliment HI
drew a heavy sigh, and as he walked ava.
he said, mournfully, God bless ye, Kath
lie, whatever happens to your poor, cake
chisted. low voiced thing O a lover. SCI
now it's the shearers We are waitin' for rath
er than gatherin' water wades for tn
goslin's."
Teddy and Kathleen had long had secre
plans for emigrating TO America-that ter
restial heaven Of the Irish. And now Kath
leen, being seized with fear Of the power
full Young blacksmith, fastened the we'd
ding and the departure. So quietly an
quickly were their plans carried out, tina
they had set sail from Liverpool befor
their neighbors knew they were married.
Many ara the gay dreams of wealth an
pleasure that dance in the brains of yOun
emigrants which are rudely broken or new
or fulfilled! Teddy and Kathleen wer
comparatively rich, for they landed will
good strong clothes and shoes, two blu
wooden boxes and "twinty pounds onion
ey."
Perhaps this innocent boy expected t,
find applicants waiting to engage him t
tend focks and to shear them at Castl
Garden! Perhaps Kathleen, in her ignor
ance, thought Of stepping at once into
bright little home of her own with look
ing.glass and rocking-chair ready to re
feet and to receive her! But there was n
call for shepherds, and Teddy was nc
strong enough for rough work on farm Q
a railroad; nor yet for enduring the clos
air of factory.
They tried first one place and then an
ther; one kind of work and then another
till their fortune" of one hundred dollar
was gone. Then they wrote home, unde
charge of secrecy; and fond grandfathe
sent Kathlie ten pounds, with which the
went west. Next, Teddy fell i'll, and the.
wrote again, and the other grandfather ser
boarded five pounds, and with that the.
came east again!
The years flew by, Teddy working whe,
he was able. and Kathleen working able 0
not, to keep up home for the two littl
ones who had come to share their misfor
tunes. All this time they had not crosse
the path of any old friend who could writ
the truth about their condition to tn
neighbors at home; and the proud parent
end grand parents had allowed the impress
sion to get abroad in COLONY that Tedd
was in fine business and Kathleen grea
lady in the city OF Lowell, convanient
Boston.
1t had been all that the angry youn
blacksmith could do to bear his disappoint
ment and loss. It was consolation
him, after they had sailed, to imagine tt
poor, frail Teddy rent with the agonies.
sea- sickness; and we are sorry to say tn
more than once he said prayer not write
in the book-"that yon white faced your
haby of man might be sa-sick till he WI
turned wrong side out, and then cast int
the s'a, dead intirly!"
Mick, not withstanding his fiery tempe
was, after all, a generous fellow. a
snre that. could he have known what b
old friends were passing through ina st1an{
land, he would have sent them without r
vealing his agency in the matter, some
his hard earned pounds O money" b
he could not forgive their imag mary veal
and happiness.
He grew moody and gloomy, and his p
rents feared for his reason. They urg
him to go to confession-a ceremony
had seldom gone through, as his sins new
troubled him much. But he went to t
priest to please his mother.
The well-meaning old father rs ked
sorts of questions to learn what the trout
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