The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-07
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seven-year old Tommy Mulhgan Takes .
Trip to England a. stowaway,
and has n Jolly Time

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seyeu-year old Tommy Mulhgan Takes q
Trip to England a. stowaway,
and has Jolly Time.
A special dispatch from New York to
the st. Louis republican says? When
the steamship TeutOnic came slowly up
to her dock this morning, everybody,
of course, was leaning over the side on
the lookout for familiar face. Nat
Goodwin was there, and SO was Miss
Hattie Blaine, who has been called
home by her fathers's illness, and a
good, round dozen Of other well-known
persons.
There was one small boy there in the
very front rank so short that he had to
peep through the bulwarks instead of
over the top. His name is Tommy
Mulligan. 1t had taken hours and no
end of trouble for the other folks to
make a name for themselves, but Tom
my, wise in his generation and age,
which happens to be I, has made his
way to fame by very short cut, and,
what is more to the point, he has at
tanned his hearts desire. Tommy had
another great advantage over all the
other passengers. He had no baggage
and therefore the custom house officers
had no terrors for him. The only thing
which troubled Tommy at all was his
conscience, which, now. after a three
weeks vacation, was beginning to get
in its fine work. Tommy peeped through
the bulwarks apprehensively as the big
ocean greyhound swung around into her
dock,
At last he discerned a man and a
woman at the foot of the gangway, who
struck his experienced eye as familiar.
Tommy was silent for an instant, and
then he said in stage whisper: ''Oh,
there's aunty and uncle JIM" He no.
ticed that they had hot seen him yet, so
he retired to the matron's cabin and
awaited developments with bated
breath. The fifteen minutes which he
spent there before his relatives appeared
will be recorded in Tommy Mulligan's
mental memorandum book as the worst
quarter of an hour in his entire sum-
mer outing. Still, when the awful eli
max arrived it was not half so bad as he
expected. His aunt Mrs. Gordon.
clasped the boy to her bosom and wept
for ioy, while "Uncle Jim" Gordon,
whom Tommy looked upon with awe,
merely looked disguised and turned
away.
1t was the good couple with whom
Tommy had lived ever since he can re-
member anything. His mother died
when he was two years old, and Mrs.
Gordon adopted him. She took the
best care of Towmy. One of her strict
est iniunctions to him was that he should
never go near the docks. But Tommy
went there all the same and fell into
evil ways. He was especially filled with
a desire to visit the place where dem
blokes with the checked suits came
from" So at last, on Monday, three
weeks ago, Tommy hid himself in the
hold of the Teutonic and took chances.
When the ship was some fifty miles out
Purser Russell started round the ship
to take the tickets up. He found Tom
my sitting on the quarterback in some
body's steamer chair, and in passing
said to him, half jokiugly:
where's your ticket, my little
MANI"
81 amt got no ticket, mister" Multi
gan rejoined.
"But your father has. Where is ne?
Tell him want to get the tickets"
"Sav, mister. | amt got no father nor
no ticket, nor no nuthin," said Tommy,
hanging his head. 81 come on an the
man pulled the board in an didn't yell
or say anything cause | wanted to CO."
By this time the child was crying, so
the purser took him down to his cabin,
and as the pilot had been dropped and
there was no possible way of sending
Tommy home, he handed him over to
Matron Hutchins. Then the fun began
-, laol oo,noot Misfar M,,I1iron
The passengers heard of his escapade
and before the vessel was three days
out the child was the pet OF the ship.
When they reached Liverpool the ma
iron took Tommy home and he fell in
love with her little daughter Becky.
Becky had just turned six years, had
blue eyes and wore an auburn pig tail,
which is exactly the style of beauty
which Master Mulligan most admires.
Il thought they'd both break their
'earts when it come time for US to sail, "
said the matron this morning. | never
saw two youngsters so set on each other
in all my life: e wasn't a bit of trouble,
Tommy wasn't, and ED run messages
for me like fun. Ii it admit a been for
me wooritin so about 'Ow Is poor aunt
must be a feelin' I'd ave enjoyed it as
much as 'oliday."
Tommy's aunt was particularly sur
prised to hear that Tommy ran MESA
ges with avidity, as in this country
Tommy has always manifested sim
cere aversin to labor of any sort. Mas
ter Mulligan spent this afternoon in his
bedroom, with the door locked on the
outside, attempting to cry as much of
his heart as Miss Becky Hutchins has
left to him completely out of his bods.
The facts surrounding his trip form a
good foundation for future romantic
marriage.