Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-09-25
TRYING I MOTHERS Love
sirs. fisnasry Was sars That The rws
B'yes IL Aquil' 10 Her Heart.


sfrs- fisnasry Was sars That The I've
B'yea IL Aquil' IN Her Heart.
Mrs. Flannery 10 a very estimable
and industrious washerwoman, q
widow. who keeps house for her two
grown sons in two neat rooms in a
basement. One son, Peter, is hard
working young mason; the other,
Joey, IL a Jack-of all-trades and
neer-do-weel, but is popularity sup
posed to be his mothers favorite.
This supposition Mrs. Flannery indig.
nantly resents. Il wouldn't be that
mean, she says. The two b'yes is
ayquil in me heart, an liver will be-"
Nevertheless, when the probability
OF war with Chill was being discussed
in family where she was attending
to the Mondays wash, Mrs. Elan.
merry was observed to be listening with
a degree of attention which implied
some personal interest in the out
come; and this is her own explana.
ton. in response to question from
the lady of the house.
"Ye see, ma'am. if there's war. my
Joey, he says he'll go. He come to
breakfast the ither morning. an he
TUX up the paper-bad luck to it--an
says he, What's thisf says he. Ar.
rslh. but I'm thinkin it's bit of a
war there's goin to be-
Jo-ayf says |. settin down the
taypot an lookin at him. 'Jo-ay! I
says |, we wouldn't be afther laveing
your noor old mother to go TO no
war : wv would your says |.
hats what | would, saws
he -. it's foine I'd look in a uni.
form, rs ye know An faith. an he
would that. But couldn't bear to
think of him goin to fight haythens
an savages, an so told him, with me
apron TO me eye an bit of n finder
sniffie like, for the bye has a soft
heart, an thought best to begin
with him aisy,
Jo-ayT says |, don't ye go an
lave me alone with me gray hairs an
me sorrer now don't yer
Sure ye wouldn't be alone, moth
} er, sthruck in Peter; an Peter, says
! |, hould yer whisht; who's a talkir
to your Joayr says l.
IN take care of you. mother,
says Peter; don't you fret. An it,
foine sodger Joeyll make. An
maybe he'll come back an officer
Sure, ] wish il was me was goinr
Go along wild ye, thin, says |.
Its beautiful ye'd be- lookin in
sthriped trousies an a sodger cap
amt it nowi Jo-ayr says |, will "
) stay at home fer your old mother. OF
/ will we break her heart entirelyf
, But joey he laughs an he laughs
! an he says he'll go; an that's Just the
bad luck o the Flannerys There's
Peter as steady as the Rock of Cashel
an safe 10 he trusted with a gun il
iver bye was. an it's him will stay
mt home when he might go for q
word if he wanted An there's joey
has a black eye every month and al
ways in trouble, an it's him must run
loose among powder an bullets al
be kilt as matther NV course. Ar
rah, well, I've done my part; I've
told EN- what think.
" Peter says |, we're bye oil
judglnen' an if ye want to go an bs
shot ye may go, and it's not your
mother viii object, for you've always
deserved well of her But Joey
says |, we will stay with me, SO ye
will, me darlin. for I'd die widout
ye
An Peter an Joey they look al
each other an they laugh an they
laugh, An ! says, Amt ye ashamed,
ye heartless b'yes. to mock me in me
thruuhlef
An Joey, he says, Don't ye cry,
mother, don't yel Ill stay-if there
aunt any war;
! An shook me fist at the laughin
rascal an says |. Jo-ayr Youths
Companion.