Little Falls transcript., 1883-09-28
MICK TANDY'S REVENGE.

MICK TANDY's REVENGE.
'''And why's the r'ason yen not be my
wife, Kathlie?'' *E-1 E@ ). .ss- s = ~
"Only bekase can't, Mick" - Z
''Why?"
"Bekase." !.
f'Niver?' .%.aa...
'No, Mick, neyer!" @.r
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
goslings at home. ~
The lover VINO had followed her thither
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 gfeat
legs and feet. Mick Tandy was q stall
wart, handsome, energetic fellow, who
conld 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 d pack Of sheep of their
wool, in the far-away s team, which ran,
llhe Dlue LlDDoAs tuIouBA tAo SieeA
meadow.
"Glve 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 pleading tone, with tears
hanging on the long lashes that fringeI her
gray eyes.
There's some other boy in my way!' he
nyn}aimad almost fiarnalv
Kathleen turned her head slightly,
and little flush came in to her
cheek.
rs it not that same that ails YEP"
"And it is. said Kathleen, frankly.
''It's the Earl's waitin man. A white
faced fool that chooses rather to dance
around anither fool, with brush lin his
hand, than to do brave, hard work with the
two stout fists God gave him!"
Its never bit him!"
Is it theinn- kaper's son, who wears the
rid diannin' pin and drinks half his fathers
whisky2"
Never biml"
"It surely Gao never be Teddy Looncy,
that's contint to mind sheep and shear 'en?
The little spaleen, with curls and pink
cheeks like girl, and cough like sick
collie-dog?"
"It's just him, Mick!"
Mick threw back his head and laughed.
But it was bitter scornful laugh. Look
at 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
bnnk for me! Look now at me with hun
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, ayadode!"
Gam as poor as him whose father has
bare enough laid by to bury his family?"
"Yese not"
Thin viii you marry me in place of
him?"
"Niver!"
''And why niver?" - ..,1
"Bekase loves him and he's so 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 g
in him!" cried Mick, fiercely. . g ~.
Yese not name enough to bate lad less
than yersel, Mick! Ye were niver coward
afore! Don't be one now! If ye want to
fight sarch for one that's yer equal for size
and beauty; small chance for fndin'
one!'
''I7 do that, my jewell" cried Mick great
ly modified by this shrewd compliment. He
drew heavy sigh, and as he walked away
he said, mournfully, God bless ye, KAth-
lie, whatever happens to your poor, Hake-
chisted. low voiced thing o lover" I soc
now it's the shearers ye are waitin' for rath-
or than gatherin' water wades for the
aoslin's."
Teddy and Kathleen had long had secret
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 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 in the brains of young
emigrants which are 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 Ttwinty pounds o'mon-
ey." ...
Perhaps this innocent boy expected to
tend hocks and to shear them at Castle
Garden Perhaps Kathleen, III her ignor-
ance, thought Of stepping at once into a
bright little home of her own with a look
ing.gluss and rocking chair ready to re-
fleet and to receive her! But the1e was no
call for shepherds, and Teddy was not
strong enough for rough work on farm or
a railroad; nor yet for enduring the close
air Of q 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 gone. Then they wrote home, under
charge Of secrecy; and a fond grandfather
sent K ,thlie ten pounds, with which they
went west. Next, Teddy foil ill, and they
wrote again, and the other grandfather sent
a boarded five pounds, and with that they
came east again!
The 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
neighhors at homo; and the proud parents
and grand parents had allowed the impress
sion to get abroad in COLONY that Teddy
was in fine business and Kathleen q great
lady in the city OF Lowell, convanient to
Boston" 49,: s., +
It had been all that the angry young
blacksmith could do to bear his disappoint-
ment and loss. 1t was consolation to
him. after they had sailed; TO imagine the
poor, f,ail Teddy rent with the agonies of
sea-sicklaess; and We are sorry to say that
more than once he said prayer not written
in the book that yon white faced young
baby Of man might be s'a- sick till he was
turned wong side out, and then cast into
the so, dead intirly!" u.
Mick, not withstanding his fiery temper,
was, after all, Q generous fellow. am
sure that, could he have known what his
old friends were passing through in g strange
land, he would have sent them without re-
ves4itng his agency IN the matter, some Of
his hard earned pounds O. money" But
he could not forgive their inag mary wealth
4 and happiness. Bs sz .Ss ss&
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