New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-17

above the kitchen, then it ceased all
at once. She took off her shoes, and
stole slowly and softly down Stairs.
Arrived at the kitchen door, she peep
ed cautiously into the room. Her
husband was sitting with his back
towards the door, and was read
ing ,intently. She crept be-
hind him, and, snatching the
book out of his hands, fungit into the
heart Of the fire, saying TREMENDOUSLY:
"pll displeasure you, Joe Fleming,
for the sake OF your immortal soul. "
The Jonah was cast out of the ship.
Sarah Fleming stood trembling at her
husbands side. He glanced at her
without speaking, but made no effort
to recover the book. Minutes passed,
and he stared into the fire where it
was being destroyed, while Jane and
Peggy looked on in alarm, and the
brave wife stood by, very pale, but
steadfast
Joe waited until his book was burnt,
and he got up, still without saying a
single word, clapped his wife, not I'M
out. When Mrs. Fleming heard
him close the housedoor behind him,
she sank upon the chair he had
just left, and burst into tears. A
change did come over her husband
from that hours He gradually broke
off his intimacy with old Paddy, he
began to accompany his wife to meet
| ing; he induced his brother James,
over whom he had got influence, to 60
there also: and once Or twice oh, joy
for the pious wife!-was discovered
upon his knees beside the bed
The black dog of i'll omen was not
again seen in the farmhouse Kitchen
and the servants ceased to complain
of hearing unnatural noises, but the
scene of these uncanny doings was
shifted to Paddy's cabin. That grey
haired skeptic lived alone; he had
neither wife nor child. He seemed to
be very little troubled by the desertion
way soothing, drinking and sneering at
every thing that was held sacred by his
neighbors. TWAS about this time that
he began to terrify his neighbors by
speaking of q weird and mysterious
companion who had taken up his
abode beneath his roof This strange
inhabitant Of Clouchfn soon came
to be known by the name of "Paddy's
Roughie" He never entered any
other house. but the people were LA
BILE to meet him in the cleaning, either
in the form OF some gigantic, sllapeless
animal, or in that Of grotesque hui
man being.
| But custom induced courage in their
breasts; they gradually came to re-
gard these appearances with but little
awe. Nurse Mary's uncle had once the
good or bad fortune to receive Pad
night in the roughie's company. Her
parents were holding a domestic COLO
guy, in Paddy's hearing, with reference
to their brothers accommodation for
the night.
eff you hanna a spot to put James
in, an him come to visit you unex-
pected, sure he's welcome to sleep wi
me, !" said Paddy, looking up from his
shoemaking, and calling across the
yard. So James went to bed in Pad
dys cabin, but did not sleep. Soon
after his entrance very curious noises
commenced. Footsteps went back
wards and forwards upon the hearth,
and furniture was thrown down, but
nothing was visible to the guest, whose
terror rose every moment. Mean
while the shoemaker peered out of his
bed in the wall, addressing his famil-
lar from time to time.
whist, will you, you rascal, an
let us sleep! It's a poor thing you'd
max disturbance, an a decent
neighbor body lodging WI us the night"
"Who's there, Paddy, darling?"
asked the frightened guest.
"Faix, it's just my boy" replied
the old reprobate. ''Do you see my
socks drying on the edge o. the bar
rel? Weel, I'm feared he'll haze them
into the fire. Dinna burn my socks
on me, or it'll be the worse for you,'
he called, raising his cracked voice to
ascreanl.
After many months amorning came
when Paddy's doorremaineds shut As
the day advanced without any stir be
ing heard in the cabin, the people grew
alarmed and broke open the door
Paddy was found dead and cold. His
house was pulled down Immediately
after the funeral, land his eerie compan
ion was never more seen Or heard IL
Cloughfin.
At this climax we were wont to in
, terrupt Mary with terrified questions
What was the black dog, nurse
, VAST a fairy?'
INA, ma, dears; it was ma ane OF tn
guide people for certain"
"What was it them"
> "I'm feared it was something bad,
3 she replied.
) And we never could prevail OF
| her to say anything further upon tn
subject.
A Wife's Value in Cows.
: W. III. Christy in Salt Lake Tribune.