Connecticut western news., 1882-02-01

young emigrants which are rudely broken or never fulfilled l Teddy and Kathleen were comparatively rich, for they landed with good, strong clothes and shoes, two blue wooden boxes and 'twinty pounds O money" B
 Perhaps the innocent boy expected to find applicants waiting to engage him to tend focks and shear them at Castle Garden! Perhaps Kathleen, in her ig- norance, thought of stepping at once into bright little home of her own, with. 9 looking-glass and rocking chair ready. to reflect and to receive her But there was no call for shepherds, and Teddy was not strong enough for hard work on farm or railroad; nor yet for enduring the close air of factory.
 They tried first one place and then an other; one kind of work and then an- other, till their " fortune" of one hun- dred dollars was gone. Then they wrote home, under charge of secrecy; and fond grandfather sent Kathlie ten pounds, with which they went West. Next, Teddy fell i'll, and they wrote again. and the other grandfather sent @ hoarded five pounds, and with this they came East again !
 The years flew by, Teddy working when he was able, and Kathleen work ing able or not, to keep up home for the two little ones who had come to share their misfortunes. All this time they had not crossed the path of any old friend who could write the truth about their condition to the neighbors 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 and Kath- leen great lady in the city of Lowell, convanient to Boston,"
 It had been all that the angry young blacksmith could do to bear his disap- pointment and loss. It was a consola- tion to him, after they had sailed, to imagine the poor, frail Teddy rent with the agonies of sea-sickness; and we are sorry to say that more than once he said a prayer not written in the Book-"that yon white-faced young baby of man might be s'a-sick till he was turned wrong side out, and then cast into the s's, dead intirely P s-..a -
 Mick, notwithstanding his fiery tenn per, was, after all, 8 generous fellow. l am sure that, could he have known what his old friends were passing through in strange land, he would have sent them, without revealing his agency in the matter, some of his hard-earned "pounds O money" But he could not forgive their imaginary wealth and hap piness. .a-...zs
 He grew moody and gl oomy, and his parents feared for his reason. They urged him to go to confession-a cere- mony he had seldom gone through, as his sins never troubled him much. But he went to the priest to please his mother. aa
 The well-meaning old father asked all sorts of questions to learn what the trouble was that was pressing on his heart.
 "Have ye iver murdered any body and hid him in the bog?" he asked.
 "'Deed I haint, thin!' replied Mick.
 'Have ye iver stole money, or it's value?"
 "'Deed, I haint done that, ather!'
 "Have ye coveted your neighbors' goods?"
 "'Deed, I've no made O doin' that, for I've got more mysilf nor most O them has!" .r..
 "Have ye lied agin yer enemies 2''
 "'Deed, I haintl I've better way O settlln' them. Ijist ups wid my right fist and knocks 'em down widout the trouble O lyin' agin 'em"
 The priest rebuked this spirit, and asked if there was 8 grudge in his heart against any fellow-creature.
 "Plinty O 'em,; yer riverence."
 "Go this honr and ax their pardon, '' was the good advice of the old man.
 "Faith, the one agin whom I am evi4est is far away-beyont my power, yer riverence."
 And as he said this, the thought darted into his mind that if he "could jist get over the sea and give Teddy a fine thrashin', he would feel better. ' ''I'll take yer advice, hooly fayther, and hunt him on the other side O the s'a. J
 And at once the gossip about Mick's low spirits was turned into 8 new chan. nel. It was now said that he was con. science struck about the curses he had prayed down on Teddy Looney, and was going to America to ask his pardon as penance. When asked by an old friend if he had really forgiven Teddy, he replied:
 "Yes, have I, till gets within arms reach O him and then he'll find out what Mick Tandy's revinge is-will he!'
 So Mick left his forge, his anvil anG his leather apron, and set sail, to the great grief of the many who had always found friend in the hot-headed, warm hearted fellow.
 The street lights burned dimly in g dingy part of the city of Lowell, when stalwart fellow, with 8 strong Irisl brogue OF his tongue, stepped into grocery and asked: ''Would you b. tellin' me, sir, where lives rich gintle man in these parts by the name O Looney ?"
 'I do not know of any gentleman il : the city of that name," was the reply
 'Did ye never hear the name in thes 7 |