Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-19
why should not

alone must strike them. why should not
they be the ones to buy ball dresses, and we
to starve ard endure, If only for whilei
Turn about would seem to them, / dare say,
only the most meager fair play"
''They are not SO miserable as you picture
them. You forget they are happy-go-
lucky lot If they are anything, and that
they never think"
80 you teievo / don't. And at all
events they are being made to think now
by these demagogues who are going about
stirring up their evil passions. am al
ways sorry when I read the sneers about
our poor people in the papers. Crimes in
deed are being mmitted-heinous I'M
rardonable crimes; but let them rest on the
heads of those who have melted these
foolish, wild, impetuous, passionate crea-
lures to the performance Of Them"
'They are, at all events, happy in hav-
ing found an advocate as impetuous and as
passionate as themselves. May say as
disloyaly' asks Denis.
''DislOyal Obi you do not understand
them if you call them that"
81 confess l do-and therefore don't
which thing is an enigma"
al have always said, always will say,
that they are at heart very loyal race; a
people who would glory IN rallyng around
their sovereign if-just little civility was
shown them. If their Queen"
'Oh! come now, Norah-"
"Well, won't then" smiling family.
II don't wish to l o disloyal in any way,
but it does seem such a pity that so little
courtesy is ever shown to Ireland. Every
now and then hand might be held out to
it; but England is favored, and Scotland ID
oh.
left out in the cold. 1t would be such q
little thing to humor them now and again.
1t might be managed ct SO small cost and
it would, firmly believe, have prevented
all this present misery. Besides" throw
ing up her pretty head with little proud
gesture, 'f were Queen l should think
it my duty to be good to al my subjests,
and / should remember, too, how many
splendid soldiers, how many illustrious
statesmen, had given me their hearts, and
arms, and brains, out Of this despised
landp'
''Well, you must confess they have given
loom for contempt of late"
''Thcy are an impressionable people, and,
alas! too easily lei; bat if the richt people
had lei them, how then? Well, never
mind! OF of every great evil some good
arises, AMI perhaps-who knows2-the very
poor viii az lat gain some benefit from
this agitation
cit will n { help tLcir cause to assist in
manning innocent cattle, and beating or
throwing tar over defenseless girls" says
De.is, with frowl.
Every is wrong now, I know, ~
sadly. But yoa condemn all becau-e of
the few. Thes, people round Eere, how
patient, Low cheerful they are, and how
teplorably poor Oh! if dad and 1 were
rich we would dc something for them; but, "
with melancholy little nod, 1--WE haven't q
penny between us.
"fet this seems good property" says
Denis, looking round him.
al dare say; tut there is nothing to work
it. It enables us to live, no more" Here
she laughs involuntaiily. "I'm hardly O
cheerful companion, am I?' she says, with
a swift, sweet glance full Of apology.
''The Lest / know, at all events" TO.
turns Denis earnestly.
Her ate fervor has been n revelation tc
him. The eager, upturnad face, the i'm.