St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-28

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worried with a pride that was struggling
against this humble submission to
charity, as she fancied about her strait
ened dependence told Jamesie to lack
decent an have hisselt at the table,"
Then she turned to me and said: "You
Just have as pleaseS you, mister, aud
we'll be morn SatiSfactiOned." So i
assumed charge and presided. Calling
the waiter, l ordered sausages, six po-
tatoes, four eggs, coffee, bread, "a LOAD
and mlnce pie. "HOw will that do for
us?' l asked of my guests. "Uhm,'
gosh mister, we'll git sick sure, we
will. We amt had no regler meals at
our house, anyhow, for IN awful time-V
Say, mister" said the waggish James,
isn't you forgot de pancakes?" 49,
That's so, by Jovei Say, waiter, add
to that order six hot buckwheat cakes
and some maple syrup" Mop mister!
don't get s'rup, git 'lassss." shouted
James, who thought | had ordered some
inferior concOmitant to his ideal "pan-
cakes" "Shut up, JameSie; you bull
head. don't you know that the other
kind o. SyrOOp is the beS'. Mister, don't
you mind the kid, nohow; he amt got
manners when pop amt round to lick
him." This was the rebuke Nan paid
to her incOrrigible young brother. She
was Frightening up to tell me all about
her terrible pop" as she called her
father, when the food came Steaming to
the table.
I'm the Scramble
which JameSie made as each dish was
placed before us, the Silverware was
pushed Off onto the floor. Then Jamesie
was again admonished by his sister, and
as he tumbled from his chair in quest of
hIC knIfn md FOUL Mo rrnxrr hin. n
gentle cuff on the head. For this the
pancakes" anne Nan asked me if |
didn't think that JameSie should go
wash his face and hands afore he eats"
But since JameSie had waived say
ing grace and washing himself, and
had already delved at the sansageS,
and eggs and all else within his reach.
l left him to the true boyish enjoyment
OF the feast. Nan, too, had only kept
reserve and demeanor at the ocst of a
good portion of the food which had
found lOdSment iii the department of
the interior of Jamesie Doyle. He
chewed like a wood chopin ,-machine,
for he was %ravenOuS.
The more they ate the more loqua-
clous they became, and when, early in
the feast, L urged Nan to tell me about
her pop" and their home on the Con-
nemara Flats, she had vented herself
between mOrSals. as only an excited and
grateful child can. She began by tell
ing me where they lived, and how she
wished her poor sick ann could have
"Sich a square meal as would do her
poor soul good; 'deedfit would, mister.
Poor mother is sick and pop is ever
after lickin' us wifi his fist. He belted
JamSie acrOSt the neck wifi mothers
prayer book and then he choked Mary;
She is the youngest, next to the baby,
who died about the matter o. ten days
afore this; and when he comes in the
house he alwuS how a scrap wifi mother,
and sometimes the neighbors come to
u place and tie mothers head up. and
have a strong talk with DOB; am"
"YeS'm. Nan, you forgot to tell mister
'boutth time he flung the baby in the
wood-bOX and wouldn't let you take it
out, uhm!" said the ardent James, as he
glanced up and rolled those big roguish
eyes at me. But what does your pap
do all this for?" l inquired. at the same
time granting Mans request for "a bit
more of that coffee" ''Oh, he drinks,
he does. He gifts mad when we asks
him for bread, and" showing me her
swollen wrists, when he comes home
an if l amt begged no money from the
railroad hams, he pulls me all Over tile
place till my arms give out and | drop.
When mother got her las baby pap was
awful mad and cursed. and we all cried,
and mother did too, and We all of US
girls and boys was out Begin for some
thin to eat for mother AN the baby. but
pap he cum home one night and stole lie
ham a lady give US Oh st. Peter street,
and we wuS left pooty neal dead wifi
Starve, and mother got awful sick and
kinder groan and groan like, you heard
people go that way when somethin'|
hurts 'em. Well, she was gittin't SO
worse that the MnlliganS came over
and stayed at u shanty all night
wunct." g.
Jamesie, who had gorged himself to
his larynX, had fallen back asleep in his
chair. The poor little fellow had been
stunned by e~xtravagant feaSting and
waslreSigned TO natures balm. Seeing
that he was comfortably reclined, / sug-
geSted that he be allowedto sleep, while
Nan and | resumed our talk. | feared
that Nan, too, would soon give way
under the strain of the attendant excite
ment of the meal, and the shock of such
gaStr0nomY upon her unused capacity.
But she bore up nobly, dear little heart,
and when my questions fell thick and
fast, she seemed moved to grateful vol
utility. She said that her poor invalid
mother was that very hour
Lying at Deaths Door
on a dirty bed OF husks and ticking in a
hoyel on the flats; that her mission on
Christmas evening had been begging of
pedestrians the money which ner brute
father was certain to exact on the NOR
row. and if they failed him, he would
give them "a beatin'." Nan said she
had ''heered people call her pap a dirty,
drunken blOke," and that she wished
God would take mother to the Catholic
cemetery where baby Joe was hauled
the other day. Maybe then, pap would
stop drinkin' and buy Jessie shoes SOS
she could go out aud help us
beg; b~ooh-hoo-ooh, oh mister, wese
MORN obleeged to yees. but we'll cit
whipped anyhow when we git home.
cause we'Se been out all night tryin' to
beg some money, and we'Se amt got
much an the medicine costs so cents.
We'se got to go to de Jail too afore we
makes for home. cause good Missus
Bean alwuS gives us some meat an stuff
Tor poor mother ----"
What else Nan would have uttered
waSloSt in a flood OF tears. and lest my
little fellows should attract the transient
guests who would soon come in-for it
was nigh unto the noon hour-I spoke
some cOnSollng words into Mans ear,
and put a bright silver dollar in the
palm of her chapped and swollen red
hands. Then l said that l would have
the kitchen maid come and wash
Jamesie's face and hands with a wet
towel, which process of cleansing would
probably wake him up, at which she
could lead him over to that kind matron
of u county Jail, Mrs. Ed S. Bean, who
would no doubt lust load them down
with good things fer sick and
the family" Jamesie woke up, but
cast a reproachful glance at us when in-
formed that we would migrate. First
he thought he would like the caster to
take home for a Christmas present to
his nam, but when dissuaded from
such a caper, he wanted to compromise
on a silver spoon SO that imam could
eat her medicine out o. it." He got the
spoon, and proudly ne strobe out beside
his sister. When we arrived at the Jail
and found Mrs. Bean all smiles and gfa-
ciouSnesS, l felt assured of the fare of
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