The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1886-12-11

peared remarkable for the irregnlarity
of its cadences, the unreasonable We
hemence of an occasional bar, and a gen
eral tendency in the pronunciation OF
the words 20 dispense altogether with
the use of consonants) -chanted, we say
Ia recollected stanza of the famous ma
| tional air:
HE that goes to bed. and goes to bed mellow
| Lives as he ought to do,
| Lives as he ought to do,
Lives as he ought to do. and dies All honest fel.
low"
He was in the act of ascending slight
activity covered with furze bushes,
through which the pathway winded,
when heavy painting, and sound OF
footsteps in rapid pursuit, alarmed, and
made him turn round. He beheld, in
the clear moonlight. not more than
three yards from the spot on which he
stood. the figure Of his enemy in the act
of rushing upon him, while the painting
Of his WEAKNESS were mingled with q
horribie half-suppressed laugh Of ecs-
tatic expectation. The light shone full
upon his countenance. 1t was wasted
almost to the very skeleton, the eyes
were distended and protruding to an un-
natural degree, aud the thin lips were
dragged back by the ghas:ly smile, SO as
to expose the teeth which We're halt
clenched, hall in rage. half i'll triumph.
The sight instantly and perfectly sob,
cred poor Segur. Uttering low cry
IF horror, he clasped his hand above the
head, and fed down the hill with the
speed of winged Fear itself, i'll the di.
rection of the mill. 1t lay att consider.
able distance from the spot, and the
poor sickly wretch's hearc sunk withi1
him when he recollected, even in the
extremity of his alright, the reputation
for agility as we'll as strength which the
youth had obtained in his neighborhood
But the latter was 10 longer the man he
had been in those days. Famine dis
ease, and anguish Of mind and frame
| had fastened upon him, and reduced his
personal vigor nearly to the same leve
with that of his intended victim. Fear,
moreover, is perhaps Aseter passion
than revenge, and Segur did not speedily
lose the advantage which lie had al the
outset. His pnrsuer was SO close upon
lis track that he sometimes felt his fn-
gers upon his shoulders, but the slight
touch operated with an electrical irhu-
ence upon his frame, infusing new and
sudden vigor into his limbs, aud enab-
ling him for moment to place wider
distance than before between his enemy
and himself. Lights were seen still
burning in She windows of the mill as
they approached, and the broad door
stood invitingly open at the distance OF
hundred yards, while several figures
passed to and fro in the interior. fully
revealed in the strong light. Both now
made desperate effort--Segnr, cheered
by the prospect OF succor- his pursuer,
naaddened by the apprehension OF losing
this single opportunity Of vengeance.
Putting, therefore, to it's EXTREMIST trial
frame into which a morsel Of food had
not entered for the last rwo days, he
closed Oh the frightened Palatine just as
he gained the doorway his fingers
ON his throat, aud staggered with his
prey into the center of the mill house.
Half suffocated by the pressure Of bis
neck, the latter could only give vent to q
low and gurgliug sound, and extend his
arms for aid towards the astonished
workmen. The desperate youth en-
deavored to drag him towards that pa,
of the room where the great machine
was performing its rapid and gigan'ic
evolutions-but his strength failed him
the struggles Of his victim was suffi-
Gent to battle his efforts until the work
men rescued him fromthe i sat|,-grasp
when extending his fingers in feeble
and delirious effort to rem w the hold
which he had been compelled to reliu-
quish, he fell forward on the earthen
floor in state of utter exhaustion.
A few days after this adventure, while
the young man was still confined to q
sick bed i'll the neighborhood, by the
cons equences Of the dreadful exertion OF
body and mind which he had under
gone; and while the object of his hate
still continued half bewildered bg the
recollection OF the hair breadth escape
he had experienced, fair ambassadress
arrived on the part Of the latter. 1t was
long time since the youth had seen
Sally Segur, with her Light straw hat
tied simply under her small climber
gentle soft eyes, and blooming, health
full countenance-her light and neatly
| attired figure, so characteristic in all
it's details of cottage peace and comfort
and the sight affected him more deeply
than no inoor;no1 anvthi,p cOu11 have