Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-20

it's not so cowld as the n ght whin young
Shane Magroo gave the conshtabularies
the ship up in the SPERM Mountains-bad
cess till thimn'
''Till whats" I asked, laughing again
1.-THE police, Moreen, or the mountains 81
The police, sure! And bl1ssld foriver
be thin same mountains for givin' him his
protixion
'sMoreens"
''Yis, your Leddyship!"
"Who ,oas Shane Magroo!"
'Divyent We know, at all!'
''Sorra bit!' l answered, dropping
pleasantly into her vernacular.
There was a su den 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 the fire. began to sat sly my ever
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
Leddyship, but a mimber av wan av the
ouldest-''
A loud, hacking cough came from Mother
Maginuis to interrupt Moreen for mo-
ment
WAN av the ouldest an gintlist av all
the giDtale aristocracy av ould Ireland.
But he loved the paypei, did Shane; loved
lviry wan av the down-throddin', meeser
able craithers that lived upon his un-
cle's-'
Another cough from the box chair. The
wind was beginning to rise, and ever and
anon it came swirl.ng down the chimney
and found its way even into the sheltered
hooks of the box-char
1T were hard saison wan year for the
poor folk, your Leddyship-the year the
Shane Magroo were SO desaitfully dilt wild
be his cuzzin, the Leddy Bridgit o. Mallory.
Och, but she were gostherin', milk
faced bit o. quality-beggin' your Leddy-
ships pardon An r-swaggerin' be-
1antin' young wooman-savin' your Leddy
ships pri since-who wud have given the
two fashin' 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 Dit 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 were his
two middle names, We moind. The other
wurruld-the 'paytraishun wurruld,' as
Teddy 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-bcant it,
nows Well, phat they called him is
naither here nor there-re called him
Shane Magroo!''
You speak of the lad in the past tense,
Moreen; is he dead:"
'Daii, is it! Och, be this an be that, if
he's not worth a hunderd daid min yit me
name ull caise to be Morcen Maginnis :"
And a laugh full of an impsh enjoyment
went careening up amongst the dirk,
smoke blackened rafters overhead.
''What did he do so awfully wicked,
Moreen, that the police were sent after
him?' l asked, stretching myself into
more comfortable position upon the rugs
and giving a little half thought to Archie
as I did SO
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--hat WI
IA died for him! An all along o. his
cuzzin's, the Leddy Bridgit's, blistherin'
tongue! Faix, Granny Maginnis, your
coughs most alarmin' in its intinsity!
Take bit dhraw av the dhudeen, mother,
an lave me to finish tho story at me aiser'
If the Lady Bridget loved him." ask,
why did she give him over to just'c
ITO onjLstice yer manil'-aXin' your Led
dyship's pardon! Pm afther belavin' as
how she had a bindin' contract wild the
iivil hmsilf-the saints save an presa;rve
oil P11f no hwy 0 ho
hull O. the sthory. As 1 were raymarkin',
it were hard saison wan year wild the
pitaties all rottin' in the ground an all the
other crops falliu' shoOrt. AM it were
thin that the tininthry, scatthered 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
xnownst to the Goover'minu. Your Led
1yship must "a knewn that the law and
Negotiations forninst amy such nanny
were very sevaire. an they'd a
1orrud they called 'illeecit that they kipt
4 speerin at us the while-'illeecit,' be the
powers! They were plaisei, also, to say
hat we chaited the Goover' m mt, foreby,
an NANNY other sootherin' names. Wan
lay-it were bechuxt four an foive av a
mornin', Shane Magroo, who'd
been misthrus tim that them ignerint gom-
nachs the polls, were to be sint to safe
The m mountain sthills came flynn along the
1ill-soides before dawn, like rale loghery
nan in a fit.
".Ye'u hide the sthills at wanst an look
)ut for yoursilves,' chried Shane. as he
hurried from wan place to another. THE
whole conshtabuiary av Omagh are afther
yez-bad cess till thin all y says he.
"'The saints love We, Shane Magroo, now
IN tor yer! says they all, as they whit to
vurruck an chaited the meddlin' Goover'
mint nate as you place, and STINT three
oikely min to their long accounts-the
more fools they to be that anxious to make |
10 airly an acquaintance with the Guild De- |
udher himself! Now, Leddy Bridget mis- |
hrusted as how it were some inimy to the
as had axceSs till their plans |
IN projix an had warned the SPERM tin |
nts av the proposed raid av the conshtabu- |
airy. An SO she set hersilf to find out the |
ale truth av it all, an thu wormin' an
raicherous an blathering were she (that |
I'm willin' to swhear, your Leddyship, that |
he must have hoong Eeels up at Barney
"a sseD as to beguile our dear Shane Ma |
roo into confusing his own completely in |
he matther Fax, she no sooner worms |
t out av him than she runs-the young she |
Ito the authorities and tips |
hem the wink av her dazzlin black |
,yesr'
''She never loved him." cried, from my |
owly position in the corner. s.She never |
owed the brave boy!''
''Troth to till, it wad same not. your |
4eddyship. Aiven if she did have such a |
,onsait-an' it'll be will known that love |
las sthrange ways av his own for |
bowin, himsilf-it wud same that she |
owed hersilf an her station the more. But |