The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-29

on level W tn a suppoSable ear, and
whispered something l knew to be Hiber-
MAN. The figure started erect with "a sud
den strength wonderful to see, and seemed
about to arise from her sitting posture.
Moreen's hand detained her and l said:
"Moreenm
"1s your ladyship awake, thin1 Arrah,
an it's bitther cowld night widout-the
rain is turnin' to slate an the slate ull be
turnin to snow, an thin PLAT ull become av
us all, phativer2"
'Do you call this cold, Moreen"
laughingly inquired, remembering the
wide stretches of deep, soft snow at home,
ice-clogged East river and the sound of a
tho usand merry sleigh bells!
''Do call it cowld. your Leddyshipl Sure,
an there'll be nothing else 10 call It'll But
it's not so Cowld as the ght whin young
Shane Magroo gave the conshtabularies
the ship PUP in the SPERM MOuntains-bad
'ces5 till thimp'
It'll whatl" [ asked, laughing again
"The police, Moreen, or the mountains?"
The police, surei And bhssld forlver
be thin same mountains for givin' him his
prot Xoni'
'MoreenW
''Yis, your Leddyshipl"
"Who 1ods Shane Magrool"
"Divyent We know, at ala"
"SorrI a bitp' l answered, dropping
PLEASANTLY into her vernacular.
There was o su den movement of the
figure in the box-chair Moreen leaned
down again-quite far down-and there
was another Celtic pas age of words.
Then pipe was brought, filled, lighted
and rendered the ancient dame, and
Morecn, after seating herself comfortably
before the fire, began to sat sly my ever
increasing curiosity.
First av all, your Leddyship, I'd bet
Their be tellin' We that Shane Magroo were
the bravcst, honestest, handsomest, bon
NEST broth av boy in all Ulster. Not
wan av the commonality, aither, your
Leddyship, but mimber av wan av the
ouldest-D
A loud, hacking cough came from Mother
Magiuuis TO interrupt Moreen for a mo-
ment.
WAN av the ouldest an gintlist av all
the gintale aristocracy av ould Ireland.
But he loved the paypei, did Shane; loved
lviry wan av the down-throddiE', meeser
able craIthers that lived upon his I'M
cles--n
Another cough from the box chair. The
wind was beginning to rise, and ever and
anon it came swirlng down the chimney
and found its way even into the sheltered
hooks of the box-cha r.
ut were hard saison wan year for the
poor folk, your Leddyship-the year the
Shane Magroo were so desaitfully dit wild
be his cuzzin, the IIeddy Br digit o. Mallory.
Och, but she were gostherin', milk
faced bit O qualitv-beggin your L ddy-
ships pardon An over -swaggerin' be-
rantin' young woOman-savin' your Leddy.
ships prisince-who wud have given the
two fiashin' Dyes out av her proud hid for
wan love-word from the dear Shane Ma.
groo! Tare an Guns, but she were high
an mighty bit o. clay Pm thinlin' that
aiven wild the pinniless bhoy, Shane
Magroo, she'd have been contnt; but he
were only Shane Magroo to US who loved
him so pairfaictly, for them were his
two middle names, We moind. The other
wurruld-the 'paytraishun wurruld,' as
Leddy Bridgit called ito which he and
she rightfully belonged, knew HIM better
as-'
A terrible cough from the box-chair
"AChrrra machree, mother, but your
cough is dale worse the night-beant it,
nowi Well, phat they called him is
naither here nor there-lUe called him
Shane Mlgroop'
''You speak of the lad in the past tense,
Moreen; is he dead"
"Daid, is it1 Och, be this an be that if
he's not worth a hunderd daid min yit me
name ull caise TO be Moreen Maginnis ="
And laugh full of an impish enjoyment
went careening up amongst the dark,
h1up 1ya cd r.lf tor
''What did he do so awfully wicked,
Moreen, that the police were sent after
himp' l asked, stretching IN self into q
more comfortable position upon the rugs
and giving a little half thought to Archie
as ! did SO.
"'Weellit'-' weekitp Sure an he were
not that at all at all! He only sided wild
the wildy an the orphin an al the down
throdd slaves av TIE soil Oh, he were
not weekjt, your Leddyship, far from i'll
But ali the same he were dhrivcn from
the country folk that loved him hat WI
"a died for himl An all along o. his
cuzzin's, the Leddy Bridgit's, blistherin'
tonguel Faix, Granny Maginnis, your
coughs most alarmin' in its intinsity !
Take bit dhraw Nv the dhudeen, mother,
an lave me to finish the story at me aise!n
"If the LAZY Bridget loved him." ask,
''why aid she give him over to just Get"
ITO onjt,Stice. yer manl'-axin' your Led
dyship's pardOnl Pm afther belavin' as
how she had bindin' CONTRACT wild the
divil himsilf-the saints save an presa rye
US all But, there; I'll thry to till We the
hui o. the sthory. AS | were raymar1in',
il were hard sason wan year wild the
pitaties all rottin' in the ground an all the
other crops fallin' shoort. Am it were
thin that the tininthry, scattered round
the aistern soide o. SPERM Mountains, in
their desperation at not bein' able to make
up their yearly rnts, tuck settin' up
shtilSs for the maxim av potheen unbe-
knownst to the Goover'minJ Your Led
dyship must "a kneWn that the law and
Negotiations forninst amy such nanny.
faXshoory were very sevaire, an they'd a
worrud they called illeecit' that they kipt
a sreerin at us the while-'ileecit,' be the
powersl They were plaisel, also, to say
that we chaited the Govern mt, foreby,
an nanny other sootherin' names. Wan
day-it were bechuxt four an foive av
winthry mornin', Shane Magroo, who'd
been misthrustin' that them ignerint gom-
machs, the polls, were to be stint to safe
the m mountain sthilis, came flynn along the
hill-soides before dawn, like rAle loghery-
man in fit.
Yen hide the sthills at wanst an look
out for yourselves chried Shane, az he
hurried from wan place to another. THE
whole conshtabuiary av Omagh are atther
yez-bad cess till thin all y says he