The Worthington advance., 1882-01-26
MICK TANDY'S REVENGE.

Mra J. E Browning.
MICK TANDY'S REVENGE.
''And why's the r'sson yen not be my
wife, Kathlie?"
"6nly beRase can't, Mick"
"Why?"
''Dekase."
''Niyer?"
mo, Mick, never!'
There was silence for moment in the
lovely glen Of COLONY where sweet Cath
leen was gathering water weeds from the
edge Of great mud puddle, for her green
Eoslings at home.
The lover who had followed her thither
vas not in holiday attire. He wore brown
paper cap on his head, a leather apron
about him, ard corduroy breeches, gray
stockings and hob nailed shoes on his great
legs and feet. Mick Tandy was stall.
could have gained the hand of any rustic
beauty in his native country. And he
knew it.
During tho 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 their
wool, in the far away S ream. which ran,
like blue ribbon. through the green
meadow.
Give me yer r'asons for bein' such q
fool. Kathlie, said the young blacksmith.
"Bekase is no r'ason al ALL"
Don't be botherin' me Mick" said
Kathleen, IN Il pleading tone, with tears
hanging on the long lashes that fringel her
g1ay eyes.
There's some other boy in my wayl" he
exclaimed almost fiercely.
Kathleen turned her head slightly.
and little flush came in to her
cheek.
rs it not that same that ails ye?"
"And it is" said Kathleen, frankly.
tits the Earls waitin' man. A white
faced fool that chooses rather to dance
around anither fool, with q brush Tin his
hand, than to do brave, hard work with the
two stout fists God gave him!"
Its never bit him!"
rs it theinn- kaper's son, who wears the
rid diamin' pin and drinks half his fathers
whisky?"
Never Mm!"
1T surely can never be Teddy Looncy.
that's contint to mind sheep and shear EN-?
The little spaleen, with curls and pink
checks like girl, and cough like sick
collie-dog?"
Its just him. Mick!"
Nick threw back his head and laughed.
But it was bitter scornful laugh. Look
ut thin two hands O mine, as streng 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 hum
der and saxty pounds of flesh on my bones,
and two arms that can thrash any three
lads in Colooney! Am like him?"
"Yese not, indade!"
"Am as poor as him whose father has
bare enough laid by to bury his family?"
"Yese not
"Thin will you marry me in place Of
him."
"Niyer!"
"And why niver?"
':Bekase loves him and hos 50 pretty,
Mick" said kathlie, with amusing frank
ness, and blushing deeply.
"Thin I'll bate him till I put out the
small bit o beauty and the little life that's
in him!" cried Mick, hercely.
"Yese not name enough to bate lad less
than yersel, Mick! Ye were niver coward
afore! Don't be one now! Ifye want to
fight sarch for ono that's yer equal for size
and beauty; small chance for findin'
one!'
III do that, my jewell" cried Mick great
~ modified by this shrewd compliment. He
he said, mournfully, God bless ye, kath-
lie, whatever happens to your poor, wake
chisted. low-voiced thing O lover. see
now it's the shearers ye are waitin' for rath-
er than gatherin' water-wades for the
eoslin's."
Teddy and Kathleen had long had secret
plans for emi grating to Amorica-that ter
restial heaven of the Irish. And now Kath-
leen, being seized with fear of the power
full young blacksmith, hastened the we'd
ding and the departure So quietly and
quickly were their plans carried out, that
they had set sail from Liverpool before
their neighbors knew they were married.
Many are the gay dreams Of wealth and
pleasure that dance III the brains of young
emierants which ars rudely broken or nev-
or fulfilled! Teddy and Kathleen were
comparatively rich, for they landed with
good! strong clothes and shoes, two blue
wooden boxes and "twinty pounds o'mon-
ey."
Perhaps this innocent boy expected to
find applicants waiting to engage him to
tend hocks and to shear them at Castle
Garden! Perhaps Kathleen, i'll her ignor-
ance, thought Of stepping at once into a
bright little home of her own with look.
lng'glass and rocking-chair ready to re-
fleet and to receive her! But thele was nc
call for shepherds, and Teddy was moi
strong enough for rough work on farm OF
railroad; nor yet for enduring the close
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 dollars
was geoe. Then they wrote home, unde,
charge OF secrecy; and q fond grandfather
sent kathlio ten, pounds, with which they
went west. Next, Teddy fell ill. and they
wrote again, and the other grandfather sent
boarded five pounds, and with that they
came east again!
Tho years flew by. Teddy working when
he was able, and Kathleen working able or
not, to keep up home for the two little
ones who had come to share their misfor-
tunes. All this time they had not crossed
the path of any old friend who could write
the truth about their condition to the
nelghbors at home; and the proud parents
and grand parents had allowed the impress
sion to get abroad in COLONY that Teddy
was in fine business ard Kathleen great
lady in the city of Lowell, convanicnt to
Boston,"
1t had been al that the angry young
blacksmith could do to bear his ,lisappoin:-
ment and loss. It was q consolation te
hiln. after they had sailea to imagine the
poor, frail Teddy rent with the agonies oi
sea-sickness; and We are sorry to say tha
,nore than once he said prayer not writer
in the book-"that yon whito. faced young
baby Of man might be s'a. sick till he wal
turned wrong side out, and then cast into
the s'N, dead intrly!"
Mick, not withstanding his fiery temper
was, after all. q generous fellow. I an
snro that. could he have known what hif
Old friends were passing through ina strange
land, he would have sent them without re-.
vealing his agency in the matter, some Of
his hard-earned pounds O. money" Blu
he could not forgive their imag inarv wealth
and happiness.
He grew moody and gloomy, and his pa.
rents feared for his reason. They ureet
him to 60 to confessional ceremony h
had seldom gone through, as his sins neve
troubled him much. But he went to tn,
priest to please his mother.
The well-meaning old father as ked nj
sorts OF questions to learn what the troubl,
VIZ that was pressing on his heart.