The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21


cess till thimr'
"Till whatf' I asked, laughing again.
s'The police, Moreen, or the mountainsl''
THE police sure! And bllssld foriver
be thin same mountains for givin' him his
protixionr'
'Moreen"
"Yis your Leddyship!"
"Who pas Shane Magrool"
"Divvent We know, at alll"
"Sorra bitr' I answered, dropping
pleasantly into her vernscular.
There was a 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 q pipe was brought. filled, lighted
and rendered the ancient dame, and
Moreen, after seating herself comfortably
before the fire. began to satisfy my ever
increasing curiosity.
First av all, your Leddyship, I'd bet
Their 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
Leddyship, but a mimber av wan av the
ouldest-"
A loud, hacking cough came from Mother
Maginnis to interrupt Moreen for a mo-
ment.
WAN av the ouldest an gintist av all
the gintale aristocracy av ould Ireland.
But he loved the paypel, did Shane; loved
1viry wan av the down throddiE', meeser
able craithers that lived upon his I'M
cle's-"
Another cough from the box chair. The
wind was beginning to rise, and ever and
anon it came swirling down the chimney
and found its way even into the sheltered
hooks of the box-chair.
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 Leddy Brdgit o. Mallory.
! Och, but she We're a gostherin'. milk
faced bit o. quality-beggin' your Laddy-
ships pardon! An over-swaggerin' be-
Iantin' young wooman-savin' your Teddy
ships pri since-who wud have given the
two fiashin' Dyes out av her proud hid for
wan love-word from the dear Shane Ma
groo! Tare am GUNS, but she were a high
an mighty bit o. clay! Pm 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 we're his
two middle names, We moind. The other
wurruld-the 'paytraishun wurruld,' as
Teddy Bridgit called ito which he and
she rightfully belonged, knew hum better
as-n
A terrible cough from the box-chair.
"Achrrra machree, mother, but your
cough is dale worse the night-beant it,
nowl Well, phat they called him is
naither here nor there-ps called him
Shane Masroor'
'You speak of the lad in the past tense,
Moreen; is he dead"
'tDaid, is it! Och, be this an be that, if
he's not worth hunderd daid min yit me
name ull caise to be Moreen Maginnisr'
And a 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 the police were sent after
HIM" I asked, stretching myself into
more comfortable position upon the rugs
and giving little half thought to Archie
as did so.
"'Weekit'-'weekitr 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'll
But all the same he were dhriven from
the country folk that loved him-:hat wud
"a died for hint AM all along o. his
cuzzin's, the Leddy Bridgit's, blistherin'
tongue! Fax, Granny Maginnis, your
coughs most alarmin' in its intinSity!
Take a bit dhraw av the dhudeen, mother,
an lave me to finish the story at me aiser
IF the Lady Bridget loved him." ask,
''why did she give him over to just;ceF'
"To onjustice, yer manin'-axin' your Led
dyship's pardon! I'm afther belavin' as
how she had bindin' CONTRACT wild the
divil himsilf-the saints save an presairve
us ALL But, there; rli thry to till We the
hull 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 tininthry, scattered round
the aistern soide o. SPERM 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 knewn that the law and
Negotiations forninst amy such nanny
faXshoory were very sevaire, an they'd
worrud they called 'illeecit' that they kipt
speerin at US the while-'lleecit,' 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
winthry mornin', Shane Magroo, who'd
been misthrustin' that them ignerint gom-
machs, the polls, were to be stint to saize
the mountain sthilis, came flynn along the
hill-soides before dawn, like a rale loghery
man in fit.
"'Ye'n 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 are afther
yez-bad cess till thin al" says he.
"sThe saints love We, Shane Magroo, now
an foriverp says they all, as they whit to
wurruck an chaited the meddlin' Goover'
mint as nate as you place. and STINT three
loikely min to their long accounts-the
more fools they to be that anxious to make
so airly an acquaintance with the ould De-
ludher himself! Now, Teddy Bridget mis-
thrusted as how it were some inimy to the
aristocracy as had axcess till their plans
an projix an had warned the SPERM tin
ints av the proposed raid av the conshtabu-
larry. An so she set bersilf to find out the
rale truth av it all, an tina wormin' an
:raicherous an blathering were she that
Pm willin' to swhear, your Leddyship, that
she must have hoong heels up at Barney
CasseD as to beguile our dear Shane Ma
groo into confusing his own completely in
the matther. Fax, she no sooner worms
it out av him than she runs-the young She
vagabone Ito the authorities and tips
them the wink av her dazzlin' black
oyesr
s'She never loved him." l cried, from my
lowly position in the corner. "She never
loved the brave boyT'
'Troth to till, it wad same not. your
Leddyship. Aiven if she did have such a
consait-an' it'll be will knewn that love
has sthrange ways av his own for