The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-05
A QUEENSTOWN E H


While waiting some years ago for her
majesty's mail to arrive at Queenstown,
shere to meet the ocean greyhound upon
which I was returning from, a summer i'm
Europe, accompanied 10y n friend, ! start
ed of on a 'jauntinR" trip through the
city OF Cove and its surrounding hills.
dur driver was "a typical Coveite-indeed.
IL would seem that the slang term "cove"
applied to individuals OF his stamp was
derived from the quondam name of the
latter day Queenstown, since so many
specimens of this class are tai Inc seen up
on the docks of her beautiful harbor.
The trap i'm which he journcycd was
quite suggestive Of the famous
shay, and the melancholy steed that, IN
response 10 the chirrups Of our jehu,
dragged us wearily over the rough roads
seemed 81 blasc that il excited our COM
ment, and led to a wager W ms as tn
the name to which the animal answered.
when he answered at all.
NITl bet you u sovereign his name 10
Mickey" ! vcntured.
retorted my companion, .unconsciously
dropping into what has since become q
famous slang phrase.
pat I querisd, "what is your horses
"That depends, yer honor. returned
he; Dennis or Mickey, wh,Sh,ye. wa"
The hot was declared OIL, but Pat got
his ~half-sovcreign for his wit.
me- COlu ulhtIe ulTl1 COMMUNICATIVE u sabhu
he proceeded To reGale us with some more
or less startling remniscences,- among
which he included an account of an ex-
p1osion he had once witnessed, the noise
of which was "thot loud il made me 30
dafe Oi cudn't hear L."
He matched the oft-told story OF how
a comrades death To the bereaved wife by
asking her IL the widow Maloney was i'm,
out OF his inner c-onsciousness and which
was briefly as follows: Pat called mt the
house Of his dead brother, having been
warned by his comrades to do his work
delicately. and to prepare the widows
mind for what was tn come before he &C
aTop q, r M Marnin' to yea, Missas Nc
''Samc 10 yes. MistIncr NIcCunc."
ats sorry Oi am for ycz. Missh~ McCar-
:"An. for whoy, Ord know"
aye DONE manc il? Well Oi tort loikely
,.Ah, but IL wasn't tn rooster that doid
Til PIG. i. uts An "" ~hayrc's tn body PSI
"Thayre ant no body, bekasc IL wasn't
the pig, hut the ould cow thot doied."
pha.a s H. 'I Sa, VIZ i. s sox s aes%ssin S's ON III Il;
grass out tLyrc? TIL ould boss is live rs
IOi know that well, Mi-sus Mccarthy,
bekase that cows outlived yer hoosband
Moihs. what,s YIN did below forni"s'
"Ah, Paddy, hut you're n dhro!ly fclly
20 he lynn loike that to me. Moike did?
Oi guiss not. No Sooch ~ioock"
IL would not bc surprising III MIR. Nc
Cune felt that all his tact had been thrown
away.
Our driver. according To his own state
ment, was acquainted with "a young Irish
man who had sought fortune IL not fame
i'm the western h~emispherc, and concern
ing whom he WAS quite solicitous, assuIn-
ing that We. had, of course, met with his
emigrated friend.
"O'd loikc 4 hear well ay the bye." he
.-sl h,. NJ E.. IsA nun
His poor mother is a-botherin' herself out
entoircly bckase av him. for bechune us.
e. E,n New Ynr iHe WHILE Iys ~ his n mo,h na.u al ms no rnn.
~s suS sSs an u 'Sr %aIsn dssprs%cd course
elected our heartfelt syinpathics.
When asked IL he had ever visited Lon
don our unique friend observed that he
never had but once, and then only got rs
That his business instincts were well de-
velopcd Pat demonstrated by Offering to
promising To keep the turnout for us UNI
ill we came back again.
"And what will you pay us for the use
of the horse. Pat 2" i asked.
1.-TWO shillin' ~ wake less than you pay
me for driving him." was the ready re-
Spouse.
of course we sounded him on the rent
question:, and elected the economically
interesting statement that ''rint wud he
very heigh'' IL hc paid il, but as he never
Thought Of doing so he was not so SURE.
that rent was so Ubiquitous n tax as some
of his ultra brethren deemed IT,.
Concerning his cart. he informed us
confidentialiy that il had never been new
and To quiet our expressed fear that the
horse wonld not live to get us back to the
dock he assured MS that he had driven
him 'twinty years, an he's never doied
yit."
After parting with Pat we called back
To him from the tender on which we were
steaminR out to the ship: "See you later
Pat"
.That dcpinds,' he shouted.
"On what?
1.-The time NV day, sure."-John Ken
drick Bangs in Harper's Magasine Joi
Decenabes.
They Saw u shark Eat Him.
Clarence =. Ashford, attorney genera
of Honolulu. Hawaiian islands. narrateS