Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-02

sorry ye are there's not eight days In the
wake for We to get dhrunk in"
"Aueh, yer ~dhrunk-Pat Ryan yer
| drunk, Pat-yer dhrnnk.
This came back to Us, growing more and
more faint as Mike disappeared along the
road, shaking his stick at the mail car.
All this sort of ehaf on the fly was done
with the greatest good humor.
Coming down the bill near Killarney We
met two cars racing furiously. The men
laid On Macduf with ell the vigor OF Roman
characters. They were about q dozen feet
apart, and came tearing up the bill, paying
no attention to Rysn's frantic shouts to
them. There was nothing for 1t but trust
to Providence and 60 between them. Pat
lust missed the right hand car, that being
The side on which he sat, but the LETT side
one had some projection on 1t that caught
my foot, and the driver came next thing 10
upsetting his applicant. | thought every
bone in my foot was broken
What in thunder do you mean, Pat
Ryan," l shouted in anger. That car
nearly took of my foot
Truth. Dim more than sorry, sor, but
yEato o poor dhriver to do, sorT
ITO do? Why wait till those escaped H.
patics got past instead Of driving right IN
between them >,
"Shure if We waited til every dhrunk
man PASSED US av q Saturday, sor, the dIyil
a mail thrain wud we catch at all, at all,
sor. | hope yer fut's not bad hurt, sorE
When we got 10 Killarney | hmped to the
.l Il l.oao- u,Ih ma The hurt how
ever. was nothing serious. Now by the
powers" cried the jolly Dublin doctor
well brighten old Harrigan out o. his slyen
sinces. Michael" this to the waiter. go
I'D to the store, will ye, and tell Harrigsn
that a gentleman's besn badly hurt on the
car. It's a serious case tell him.
Wien the waiter had gone the doctor bur
riedly bound up my foot, got a pillow on a
chair and placed the foot on it while | sal
back, exhausted like, in the big arm chair
The hotel folks, who really thought the case
serious, hustled around and got everything
that was needed, while the landlord himself
stood by with q glass of brandy in his hand.
"Harrigan," whispered the doctor 10 me,
owns the cars and is responsible. he keeps
q liouor store ard has some of the hnes'
twenty-f Eve year cid sherry there's in all Ire
land. I'm going to compromise on thai
sherry. Here be comes-now faint.
swooned and Harrigan came in wiring
ing his hands, followed by Pat Ryan and the
waiter.
"Oh. Harrigan, Harrigsn, cried the doc,
tor, this is = terrible accident, entirely. The
iut'n have TO come Oft. It's e3,COO agalns'
Ecu at the very least"
Harrigan, pale ard speeches, came
timidIy forward and touched the foot.
gave a wild Comanche yell that an Indian
taught me out west and the whole crowd
came near jumping through the ceiling.
Lord" cried the doctor when he came
down, II had no idea it was so bad as that
myself. What damages are you after
Well l said faint, I've had all the
damages | want. but If had q glass oil
sherry now
There We have it, Harrigan. That's q
Providence for you. We're all witnesses
that he said he wanted no damages, hut for
any sake get q bottle of that twenty five
year.
"A dozen bottles if he wants them
No said the doctor; one will do If the
right sort, Harrigan. No doubt when he
tastes i; he'll order u dozen to take to Lon
don with him.
The sherry was certainly good and it had
a marvellous effect in healing the foot, tor
which Harrigsn and Pat Ryan seemed de-
voutly thankful. The latter recovered his
spirits to 90 out singing:
An Oy soy for a glance av yer oye.