Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-26
MRS. RoONEY'S TWINS.
Belle c. Greene in The Continent

PatSey ana JalneSey We're tWlnS-"Doun
twins" as their mother, Mrs. Rooney, was
won't to explain; but for all o. that no more
alike from the time they was born into the
world than black and white!
''Why, when the two of em was little tod
din things, wasn't that Patsey a-sprawlin'
and rootin around from mornin' till night
ike 2 little pig, and as continued, too, if only
his mouth was filed! And there was Jamesey
betimes, a-sittin' dacent and quiet, with his
bib tucked under his chin, and his face as
clane and white as e bran new chiny saucer!
'Ah he was q born gintleman - was
Jamesey!n
And so she seemed to regard him always
as sort Of superior being, and sacrificed
herself and Patsey to him with strange, IN
reasoning devotion.
Patsey so far shared her infatuation that
he never dreamed CT considering himself for
a moment where Jameseys interests were
concerned.
As a child, he went cold and hungry and
ragged that Jamesey might be comfortably
cared for.
At school he fought his battles and bore
his pu.Iishinents, too, when he could; even
his mother, with unmotherly injustice, when
ever she found the boys guilty of any child
ish misdemeanor, was apt to beat poor
with sharp word or cuff.
As natural consequence, Jamesey grew
up lazy, selfish disagreeable fellow, but
Patsey was universal favorite.
The girls all liked him; and one, Katy Sui
liVan, had given him her whole warm Irish
heart.
Katy was the handsomest and smartest girl
In the world-that is, in the little world in
which she and the two brothers lived and
moved-and the modest Patsey never gave
over wondering how it was she came to fancy
a lad like him; still he none the less cher
ished the dream of one day making her his
wife.
Like two sly Irish lovers, as they were, they
had thus far kept their own counsel, and no
body was whit the wiser for their bright
hopes and plans
But to Patsey's dismay he found out in time
that this secret hope even must be dragged
out and offered up to the Moloch of his
brothers needs and desires
The two were sitting, one evening, ON the
doorstep Of their little home, when Katy Sui
ivan CHANGED to come along. She stopped
moment for pleasant word with them and
then passed on. 81
Jamesey turned to his brother with a con-
Scious smile:
Glow is that for a girl, for a wife, ye
know!' be asked, pointing his thumb over
his shoulder
''For wife, is it," echoed Patsey, with
guilty start, his heart jumping up into his
mouth; 'for wife? Whose wifeg'
''For my wife, of course ye galoot, an
swered Jamesey; did ye suppose meant
for your wifel'
'Oh, no, mol" rrmured Patsy, con-
fusedly
Wei, then, an what do you think of her.'
persisted Jamesey, squirting at the point of
the stick he was whiting, with one eye criti-
cally shut up.
Patsey lifted his right hand slowly toward
heaven, and pressed the other to his heart; a
look Of blank despair came into his boyish
face
''What DO think of Katy sullivan.'' he
made out to utter at last.
Jamesey turned round impatiently
F'What do we mean by AKIN questions over
and over after me? Can't ye give civil an
swer? Now then" Strengthening up, swelling
out his stomach and putting both thumbs in
the armholes of his vest; ''now, then, what
do you shink of Katy Sullivan for wife for
Jamesey Rooney"
''For the matter o. that, )" said poor Patsey,
driven to the wal, !" ''she's fit to be a kings
wife any day.
Jamesey nodded his head with great salts
faction.
Handsome, isn't she?" with another nod.
"Handsome as a painted picturer' assented
Patsey, writing.
''And healthy and smart, as WE'LL jane
sey goes on. Shell run her four looms a
day and dance al night; and then, bedad,
yell see her as fresh us Il rose in the mornin
And kind-sn't she, now?'
Kind" groans Patsey. ''Oh, hut her
heart is as waiIa as l. roasted peltaty iist out
o. the ovenl"
"Me lad, think I can't do better!n say
Jamesey, in conclusion, shaping him On tho
back.
Patsey was strucll, at tie same tire, with
a sudden idea.
''See here" said he, slowly, ''Katy is q girl
with a mind of her own. She may have made
it up to some other lad already. / wouldn't
set me heart on her, If 1 was you"
His brother waved his hand. "Jamesey
Rooney ginerally gets lis will" he said.
grandly.
But Patsey was not sure The more he
thought the matter over the more he felt
convinced that Katys true heart
would be proof against even Jamesevs
ascinations; and the idea caused his bosom
20 swell with JOY and triumph. But at tire
lie LlIIlS lIe CCAStQSTdtlOu llaI Ee himself
as the one to stand between Jamesey and
his will struck terror to his heart.
He lay awake half the night, and in tho
morning, still troubled and confused, be re-
solved to so to his mother, having the in-
stinctive feeling that Jamesey's interests
were always safe in her hands.
So after breakfast he followed Der out into
the little shed where she was washing.
"Mother," says he, beckonins mysteriouslv,
''come into the fore room a minute I'd hay.
word with yen
"Let it be short word, then" she said,
somewhat Grossly taking her dripping hands
from the tub and wiping them on her apron
"What with Jamesey's billed shirt to be
Ironed for the party tonight, and Inc day,s
washin' still forninSt me, I've little time for
talkin'n
'Iknow, mother, I know, sal Fatsc7-, der.
recatingly, but it is of Jamesay would be
speakin,.''
"An' what's the matter with Jau,eseyan
she asked, in quick alarm. "Wha,'s come TO
the b'y!"
BE aisy, mother, dear: nothin's coma to
him yet; and for the matter o that" he
added laughing, Tin fearin' that it 5 what
won't come to him at all that Il work l.4A
the trouble