The Irish standard., 1886-11-06
to make the most he could on't.''
Hardwrinkle here attempted to int!

ana CQ6 speaker cOuGluueu.
81 amt surprised at Mr.. Hard
wrinkles gettin riled, not mite. for ]
swonnie it looks kinder mean in me to
talk 80 after enjoying his hospitality;
but I've got into sorter snarl, gents,
you see, about this here marriage con-
cern. and must tell the truth. for
don't see any other chance OF getting
out of it. Well, then, to be plain about
it, we had an understanding-Mr. Hard
wrinkle and I had-well, it was just like
this: If we succeeded in. getting rid OF
Lee by means of the note, and could
then induce the young lady to marry
straight of, or. il she refused, to carry
her off to the nearest place we could
catch a vessel bound for the States-I
say. if we succeeded in this, Mr.. Hard
wrinkle was to have ten thousand dol
lars cash, and run the risk Of the note,
succeed OF fall
"ScoundreI!'1 calculated Hard wrinkle,
Kissing the words between his teeth.
ssGentlemen, this is the most Outrage
ous falsehood-;'
''Psaugh! hold Oh bit-don't get
riled, Cousin Robert"
'.But what could L expect, when the
fellows ignorant Of 5he very first prin-
ciples OF religion?"
"Do say! Well, never made much
pretension about it, you know, cousin,
and SO you couldn't expect much from
me in that line; but for you. who's
praying and reading the Bible most part
the time through the week, and Sabbath
especially, why, it was going it leetle
/ mite too strong to try to do me out OF
that note---warn t it now, Cousin Robert?
BY crackie: Bob, for q pious, God-fear-
ing man, you're about as smart one as
I've mat since I left. Connecticut; you
are, / swow; no mistake about it. But,
gents, / don't see no use now in talking
over the matter further. I was a-goin
to produce Mr.. Hardwrinlzle's letters to
me before I.left the States about this
here marriage, to show you T amt the
| only one to blame in the transaction:
but l guess it's, just as we'll to let the
matter drop as it is. AS regards the
speculation I came here ON, why, all can
be said about it is, failed-that's the
amount of it. The fac5 lis, gents, I
always heard the Irish were All almighty
green sort Of folks, both at hum and
abroad; and thought a Yankee. specially
81 Connecticut Yankee, had nothing to
do bu5 go right straight along soon's he
got among them; but fnl now { made
slight mistake i'll that respect. il ain t
so, gents; the Irish at hum amt SO
green by 81 long chalk as some I've met
in Vermont.
.'Nor all tile Yakeees so smart as; they
think, y added the captain, smiling,
t''Well, sometimes we get singled,
yon Enow, like the rest Of folks. Well,
It's just like this: we hahn It got to our
full growth yet, but give us fifty years,
more to get our eye teeth cut, and ! tell
you what, captain, should like to see
the foreigner then could come the blind
side Of us, that man ID be caution, {
tell Ye AS for MIR. Hardwrinkle here,
1 don't wonder he's smart. for he be-
longs to s. pretty considerable smart
kinder family, Well, he's got a cousin
in Ducksyille, name OF Weeks, said to
be about as smart 81 man as you can
scare up in that section OF the country;
and still he hain't been hundred miles
from home, guess, all his lifetime"
''Brother Of yours, / suppose, said
the captain.
"Well, 10, he aim t. -
II thought, being Ducksville man,
and q COUSIN of Mr.. Hardwrinlle's here.
he might be your brother, or cousin, a,
least.''
mo, not exactly; he's much abou1 the
same, though, we've always been SO in.
innate. 1t was he first told me OF his
relations mere, the Hardwrinlzles. .
First told you! What, did you moi
know that a]ready?':
''No; can't say I did,
Are you not Mr. Earawrinkle'
cousin?',
mot that I know off,
ftNot that you know Of why, how;s
this? Have you not passed for cousin
of Mr.. Hardwrinkle' since you came tc
reside here?''
"Well, yes, pretty much, I guess
'Pretty much! Why, sir"
s'Hold ON, ," said Weeks, ''hold Oh g
moment, captain; J. can explain that,
too, quite to your satisfaction, [ reckon.
The Weeks family, then, you must
know, and ourn were terrible intimate.
being next neighbcrs for little more
than twenty years-well, the fact is, we
got to be so intimate we never made any
difference with respect to relationship,