The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

Snane MagroO gave the conShtabular1cs
the ship up in the Sperrin Mountains--bad
| 'cess till thiml''
"Till whntg" 1 asked, laughing again.
| 'Tho police, Moroen, or the mountains3'
1.-THE police, surel And blissid forivcr
be thin same mountains for givin' him his
| protixion ~
"Moreenfn
"Yis, your Lcddyshipw
"Who ,ods Shane Magroow
"Divvent ye know, at allr'
"Sorra bitl' ] answered, dropping
pleasantly into her vernacular.
| There was sudden movement of the
| figure in the box-chair. Moreen leaned
down again--quite far down--and there
was another Celtic passage Of words.
Then pipe was brought, filled, lighted
| and rendered the ancient dame, and
Moreen, after seating herself comfortably
before tho fire, began TO satisfy my evor-
| increasing curiosity.
First av all, your Leddyship, I'D bet
ther be tellin' we that Shane Magroo were
| the bravest, honestest, handsomest, bon
niest broth av boy In all Ulster. Not
wan av the commonality, aither, your
Leddy ship, but mimber av wan av the
| ouldest-"
loud, hacking cough came from Mother
Maginnis to interrupt Moreen for a mo-
ment.
IVAN av the ouldest an gintlist av all
the gintale aristocracy av ould Ireland.
But he loved the paypel, did Shane loved
Iviry wan av the down-throddin', mecser
able craithers that lived upon his un-
cle's--"
Another courh from the box chair The
wind was beginning to rise, and ever and
anon 1t came swirling down the chimney
and found its way even into the sheltered
hooks of the box.chair.
"It were a hard saison wan year for the
poor folk, your Leddyship-the year the
Shane Magroo were so desaitfully dit wild
be his cuzzin, the Leddy Bridgit o. Mallory
Ooh, but she were gostherin', milk
faced bit o. quality-beggin' your Leddy-
ships pardonl 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! I'm thinkin' that
aiven wild the pinniless bhoy, Shane
Magroo, she'd have been contint; but he
were only Shane Magroo to us who loved
him so pairfaictly, for them were his
two middle names, ye 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
''Achcrra machree, mother, but your
cough is dale worse the night-beant it,
now2 Well, phat they called him is
naither here nor there-ire called him
Shane MaGroo!"
"You speak of the lad in the past tense,
Moreen; is he deadr
''Daid, is it! Och, be this an be that, if
he's not worth a hunderd daid min yit mo
name ull caise to be Moreen Maginnis ~
And laugh full of an impish enjoyment
went careening up amongst the dark,
smoke blackened rafters overhead.
"What did he do so awfully wicked
Moreen, that tho police were sent after
himi" / asked, stretching myself into
more comfortable position upon the rugs
and giving little half thought to Archie
as did so.
"'Weckit'-weckitp Sure an he were
not that at all at all! He only sided wild
the wildly an the orphin an all the down
throddin slaves av the soil oh, he were
not weekit your Leddyship, far from it!
But all the same he were dhriven from
the country folk that loved him-that wud
"a died for him! AM all along o. his
cuzzin's, the Leddy Bridgits, blistherin'
tonguel Faix, Granny Maginnis, your
coughs most alarmin' in its intinsity!
Take a bit dhraw av the dhudcen, mother,
an lave me to finish tho story at me aise"
"If the Lady Bridget loved him." ask,
''why did she give him over to justicew
"1o Onjustice, yer manin'-axin' your Led
dyship's pardon Pm afther belavin' as
how she had bindin' conthract wild the
divil himsili-the saints save an presairve
us ALL But, there; rll thry to till ye the
huh o. the sthory. As were raymarkin',
IL were hard saison wan year wild the
pitaties all rottin' in the ground an all the
other crops fallin' shoort. An it were
thin that the tfninthry, scatthered round
the aistern soide o. Sperrin Mountains, in
their desperation at not bein' able to make
up their yearly rints, tuck settin' up
shtills for the maxim av potheen unbe-
knownst to the Goover'mint. Your Led
dyship must "a lfnewn that the law and
forninst amy such nanny.
faxshoory were very sevaire, an they'd a
worrud they called 'illeecN' that they kipt
q speerin at US the while--'illeecit' be the
powers! They were plaised, also, to say
that we chaited the Goover'mint, foreby,
an nanny other sootherin' names. Wan
day--it were bechuxt four an foive av a
mornin', Shane Magroo, who'd
been misthrustin' that them ignerint gom-
machs, the polls, were to be sint to saiZe
the mountain sthills, came flynn along the
hill-soides before dawn, like rale loghery |
man in Il fit
Sven hide the sthills at wanst an look !
out for yourselves chried Shane, as he
hurried from wan place to another. The |
whole conshtabulary av Omagh arc afther |
yez-bad cess till thin all y says he