Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-12-20

While waiting. some years ago, for her
Maiestys mails to arrive at QueenstOw n,
there to meet the ocean greyhound upon
which ! was returning from a summer in
Europe accompanied 10y friend, ] started
of on 'iaunting' trip through the CITY
of Cove and its surrounding hills Our
driver was typical Coveite-indeed, IT
would seem as If the slang term cove
applied to individuals Of his stamp was de-
rived from the quondam name of the latter.
day Queenstown, since SO many specimens
of this class are to be seen upon the docks
of her beautiful harbor.
The trap in which we journeyed was
quite suggestive Of the famous one horse
shay. and the melancholy steed that, in re-
Spouse to the chirrups Of our Jehu, dragged
us YEARLY over the rough roads seemed so
birst that it excited our comment and led
to a wager between us as TO the name ~
which the animal answered when he an.
swered at all
"I'll bet you "a sovereign his name is
Mickey ! ventured.
"I'l bet a pound his name is Dennis, " re
torted my companion unconsciously drop
ping into what has since become famous
slang phrase.
pat, queried what is your horses
name y
That depinds, yer honor returned he.
"Dinnis or Mickey, Whichever wan of yez
goes halves on yer wiuuin's"
The bet was declared off but Pat got his
half sovereign for his wit.
The coin made him communicative. and
he proceeded to regale us with some more
or less startling "reminiscences, among
which he included an account Of an explo
sion he had once witnessed the noise of
which was 'thot loud it made me so dafe oi
| cudn't hear it.
He matched the oft told story of how
one of his countrymen broke the news of IA
comrades death to the bereaved wife by
asking her if the widow Maloney was in
| by another which ! suspect he evolved out
Of his inner consciousness, and which was
briefly as follows Pat called at the house
Of his dead brother, having been warned
10y his comrades to do the work delicately
and to prepare the widows mind for what
was to come before he acquainted her with
her bereavement
Top % tn marnn' 10 yez, Missus Me
earthly, he began.
Same to yez Misther McCune
ITS sorry oI am far ycz, Missus McCar
thy"
Am for whoy, old know G"
The roosthers did
"Ye don't name it Well. oi tort loikely
he'd doy.'
All but it wasn't tn roosther thot doied
at all, at all Twas the pig
The pig, is ut An whayre's tn body Z
'Thayre amt no BODY bekase it WASH I
tn pig, but tn ould COW thut doied
All, 90 long wild yez, Paddy Mcclure
Phwats thot but tn COW grain on tn
grass out thayre Tn Guild boss is live Il,
ony av yez.
'Ol know thot well, Missus Mccarthy
bekase that COW : outlived yer hoosban,
Moike. whots lyn' did below, fornins
Denny Burke's'
All, Paddy, but you're IA lroll felly to b,
LYNN loike that to me Moike d,d q
guiss not No sODch iDocL
1t would not be surprising il Mr. Me
Cune felt that all his tact had been thrown
away
Cur driver, according to his own state
/, ment, was acquainted with Il Young Irish
man who had sought fortune II not fame II
the Western Hemisphere, and concernin
whom he was quite sol"ituus assumin
that We had, of course, met with his emi
. grated friend
cord loike 10 hear well av the bye, " b
sand though Oh fear he's gone wrong
His poor mother Is botherln herself GU
entoirely bekase av him, for bechune u,
gintlemin, the bye wint an paid his rint il
New Nark while his mother at home wa
: duyIn for a dhrap o. poteen
such an unprecedently depraved cours
elected our heart felt sympathy
When asked if he had ever visited Lon
don. our unique friend observed that Ii
never had but once, and then only got
far IA Dublin
That his business instincts were well d,
Y veloped Pat demonstrated by Offering to Sc
= Us ms horse and car for two guineas. pruu
!" Ising to keep the turnout for Us until "
came back again
!. And what will you pay Us for the use
h the horse. Pat Z" / asked
, Two shilu' II wake less than you pa
v me- for dhrivin' him, was the ready r.
sponse
OF course We sounded him on the rel
" question. and elected the economically il
- terestng statement that "riut wud he yer
- hogh' If he paid It, but he never thoug
of doing 50, he was not sure that rent vi
50 inquitous tax IT, some Of his ulti
y brethren deemed 1t
u Concerning his cart he informed US cd
tdentally that 1t never had been new al
to quiet our expressed fear that the hor
a. would not live to get us back to the doc
" he assured Us that he had driven him ''twi
y Is wears, an he's ulver duled VT
After parting with Pat, We called la,
to him from the tender on which We We
steaming out to the ship, See Won late
Pat
That drpinis. he shouted
'On what -
le The time av day, sure
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