The Irish standard., 1886-11-13
MARY LEE.
Ok
THE YANKEE IN IRELAND.
BY PAUL PEPPERGRASS. ESQ,
Author of "shandy McGuire.' ''The spe-
wife, etc.
CHAPTER xxvIII-(Continued)


Weeks, as if he had been trying hard te
recollect himself, "come to- think of it, ]
guess there is scme relationship
"You guess there is!''
eyes, I rather think so-by mar
riage."
s'Mr. Weeks,'' said Hardwriukle,
.sremember you are now in court oi
justice" +"
ALLOW me, Mr.. Hardwrinkle,' y inter
posed the chairman; II shall finish In
minute or two. Your turn comes next.
You say you guess there is some rela-
tionship by marriage, Mr.. Weeks
eyes; one Of the Weeks married a
Bigelow. il I aou't greatly mistake,
somewhere about the end OF the revola-
tionary war or :hereaway. [ kinder
thind Uncle Nathan used to"
"Stop, stop, sir! Confound You aid
Uncle Nathan. You can't speak SEN
tence, sir, but you have Uncle Nathan
ut the hend and tail OF it. Answer az
Snce, sir; are you OF aye You not cous-
in OF Mr. Hare9wrindle
s.Why as to the blood relationship, J.
guess there amt much OF that to speak
If, But still it amounts to pretty much
the same thing IN the end. The Weeks
and Bigelows were always in and out,
YOU know, like one family. And then
young Ephrjam and l--or Eph, as we
used to call him bout She aoors-went
to school together for eight or ten years,
end never kept & secret from one an
ether more than if we had been twin
brothers.
Well, By the Lord Harry cried the
captain, turning to lis associates: sit
this ain't the coolest fellow I've met in
my day! And so,' he continued, look
ing at the imperturahle Yankee, cit
turns ont at last there's no relationship
at all between your
%sNo, guess not, except by marriage.
Still, it's much abont the same thing.
The Weeks have always been as inGi-
mete with us rs cousins could he. Well.
in fact we we're cousins in everything but
the near blood"
"Ha, ha!'' laughed the captain, this
is capital, eh! Not only o,twatted your
friend here by passing counterfeit bills,
but passed yourself off, too, as bis AM
srican conain, ealing and drinking Of the
best in his house Ha, ha! by George,
&hat beats Bannai,er Here tie aud
ience, at length fully comprehend1ng
how zeatters stood, broke out into gen
eral laugh, in the midst OF which 8 curly
headed fellow, mounting ,n 8 window
sill, waved his hat ay,<s shouted st the
top Of his voice, "Mole power to ye,
Weeks, more power tc ye, lNa houchal. y
"'Pon my conscience, captain, jewel,
it's ehairedhe ought to be, instlt Of STINT
10 JAIL cried another.
The chairman now rose to command
silence in the court, but WAS met with
cheers FOR Weeks. and groans for Hard
wrinkle. tHurrah for the bowie Yam
kee--down with, The black sarpint.
"Order! police, keep order there be-
low! Silence, you vagahond, silence'"
e1iea the captain; ''thls is pretty con-
auct in court Of Justice
Send him out till we chain him. cap
tain, send him out, he dssarves it for
putting the sLeek' in Black Robert"
The police, after several efforts, at
length succeeded in restoring silence,
and the chairman was about 70 take up
the charge against Randall Barry, when
Weeks, who still coolly maintained his
position in trout Of the bench, his hands,
rs usual, driven down into his pockets,
begged leave to say word or two be-
fore he left.
II shan't keep you long" he said:
s.uo, q word Or two is all I've got to say.
I came to this country, gents, as most of
YOU know by this time, on a matrimonial
speculation! Well, I failed-I did-no
mistake about that. Now, then, gents,
ali l ask in return for my loss Of time
snd 1noney--not to speak Of several mis-
haps in t,yiag to put the thing
through--is simply this: that you won't
let the darned affair get INTO the news
papers. I'm Yaneke, gents, q full
blooded Yankee Of the old Puritan
stock. and should hate, of all things, to
have it known that New Englander-
sn3 Connecticut man at that--could
be taken in by the Irish. I swonnie, I'D
rather put for Texas right straight of,
than return to the States, and find it
published:all over the country: would
by long chalk chalk. Why, I should
ever afterl lbesslooked on as disgrace to
Yankee land. $50, as I said before, I'm
willing toEput up with The hull of it if
you only promise..me this tarnal trial
ehan't get.into the newspapers.