Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-10
sCOLDING MATCH.
OsCOnneIl EffcetuaIIy SiIcnces
I5idsiy MOriarity.

huxter stall on one Of the quays
nearly opposite the Four Courts, snC
whose powers of abuse were notorious
from one end Of Dublin to the other
The linQual duello was the result Of I
wager, Mr.. O'Connell backing himsel,
to outscold the virago. The result il
thus described;
The party adjourned to the huxter''
stall, and there was the owner herself
experimenting the sale Of her small
waTes-a lew lOungers and ragged
idlers we're hanging about her stall
for Biddy was Character" and, il
her way, was one Of the sights o.
Dublin.
OConnell was very confident OF sue
cess. He had laid an ingenious Plan
for overcoming her, and with all the
anxiety of an ardent experimentalist
waited to put it into practice. He
resolved to open the attack. At thi;
time 0'Connell's own party and the
loungers about the place formed al
audience quite sufficient to rouse Mrs
Moriarty, on public provocation. to 1
due exhibition of her powers. O'Con
nell commenced:
What is the price of this walk
ing stick, Mrs. Whatsyourname|
M0Fiarty, sir, is my name, and a
good one it is; aud what have you L
say agen il? and one and sixpence !.
the price Of the stick. Troth its chapt
as dirt, so it is. "
Zone and sixpence for a walking
stick J Whew, why you are no better
than an imposter, to ask eighteen
pence for what cost you two pence"
Two pence your grandmother,
replied Mrs. Biddy, do you mean L
say that its cheating the people | am
Imposter, indeed T.
"Ay, imposter and it's that | cal
you to your teeth, rejoined 0'Connell
Come, cut your stick, you cantan'
kerous jaekanapes.
Keep civil tongue in your head
you old diagonal" cried O'Connell
calmly.
Stop your jay, you pug nosed bad
ger, or by this and that cried Mrs
MOriarty, IN make you go quicke
nor sou came"
Don't be 10 a passion, my Ole
radius; anger will only wrinkle you
beauty"
by the hockey, if you say another
word OF impudence. I'd tan you
| dirty hide, you bsstely common scrub
and sorry I'd be to soil my fists upoI
! your dirty carcase:"
"Whewl boys, what a passion ole
Billy is iD; protest as | am gentle
man"
"Jintlemanl jiutlemaul the likes o
you a jintleman Wisha, by gore
that bangs Banagher Why, you pc
tato faced pippin sneezer, where did
a Madagascar monkey like you picl
enough OF common Christian dacencJ
to hide your Kerry brogle2"
Easy now-easy now" eriet
l0'Connell, with imperturable gooC
humOr. don't choke yourself will
| fae language, you old whisky drinking
parallelOgram."
What's that you call me, you muir
dering william reared Mrs. Moriarity
Stung into fury.
II call you" answered 0'Connell
"a parallelogram; and a Dublin iudg,
aud jury will say that it's no libel Il
call you so!
"0h, tare an-houndsl OBJ! holy Bid
dy that an honest woman like M
should be called barrybellygrum t,
her tacel I'm none OF your barrybelly
grums, you rascally gallows Bird yol
cowardly, sneakiug, plate lickin
bliggardl'
oh, not you, indeed" retorte,
0Connell why, | suppose you'I
deny that you keep hypothenuse i
your housel"
ITS a lie for you, you rObberl
never had such thing in my house
you swindliDg thiefI"
Why, sure all the neighbors knor
, very we'll that you keep not only
,. hypothenuse, but that you have &c
/, two diameters locked up in your gar
, ret, and that you 90 out to walk wit
then every Sunday, yeu heartless heI
a tlgon."
! "Oh, hear that, ye saints of glor
! Oh, there's bad language from !ollo
, that wants to pass for a jintlemaI
|, May the divil fly away with you, 20
micher from Munster, and make celei
sauce OF your rotten limbs, you mea
: mouthed tub Of CUTS"
!, "Ah, you cant deny the charge, 70
! miserable sub-multiple or a duplica
ratio. "
go, rinse your mouth in the Life
. you nasty tickle-pitcher; after all Il
bad words you speak it ought to
Either than your face, you dir
chicken OF Beelzebub."
Rinse your own mouth, you WicI
= cd minded old polygOn-to the deut
y | pitch you, you clustering interse,
y ton OF st---ng supCr6cies."
- You saucy tinker's apprentice,
I. you don't cease your jaw, I'lr'-bt
: here she gasped for breath, unable
i hawk up any more words, for the la
yOlley Of O'Connell had nearly knockC
the wind out of her.
While | have a tongue I'll abu
you, you most inimitable peripher
Look at her, bOysl there she stands
, convicted perpendicular in petticoat
n There's contamination in her circuu
81 ference, and she trembles with gui
,e down to the extremities Of her core
\ laries. All! you're found out, "
/, Feotilineal antecedent and eauiangul
t. old hagI IT'S with you the devil wi
: fly away, you poFtsr-sWeeping simil
tude Of the dissection Of vortex"
Overwhelmed with this torrent
language Mrs. Moriarity was silence
e Catching up a saucepan, she W
7. aiming at Q'Connell's head, when
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