The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-09-15

into the wather at once they pelted.
divin' out O. sight in an instant, al.
but the poor girl that lost the hat.
IF We have my cap, sir, I'll behold
en- to We if We give it back to me and
letPnle 60 home" says she.
Sure the sight Of her two beautiful
blue eyes filled wild tears made Jerry
Almost ashamed OF himself, but the
divil a notion had he of givin' up the
cap.
'"Troth! ma 'am," says he, ''It's N.Y.
self that would do anything in life for
We, but bad luck to. the cap, big or lit
| tie, have to give to ye." The mer-
maid thin begin to cry and go on at q
great rate and Jerry thought it the
best plan to thry to soothe her a bit.
"Arrah, don't be cryin,' avourneen,"
says he, goin' over to her, "sure, may
| be it will be for the best"
"Ochone! what will become o. me?"
| says she, wild another bawl. "a poor
lone girl, and hundreds o. miles away
| from home, and not q one to spake q
kind word to her.
| "Whisht! ashore, don't say that
! There's good bit O. road betune ye
and home, where ever. that may be,
but seein' there's no help for it, maybe
can help We out OF your trouble =
"How!" says she.
"What dye think O. me for good
stout lump OF q boy?" says he.
"Troth! I've seen worse in nv time,
says she, lookin' up his face in a
most bewitchin' manner.
"I'll go bail ye have" says he. "see
now, darlin,' I've got nice snug
farm wild as fine crops on it as ever We
laid eyes on and we'll stocked wild
everything We could wish for. The on
ly thing it wants is q misthress, and
betune ourselves l think it wouldn' t
be g. bad iday for We to change
your name to Mrs. O'Sullivan."
'"Don't say the word twice, Jer-
ry," says she, f1inging her arms
around his neck and givin' him a
smather that we could hear a mile
off. v
"Only say the word qnd I'llgo home
wild We at once"
Jerry wint up to the neighbors, got
some clothes for the girl from the
women, and afther dhressin' her, cot
married to her and brought her home
to his little cabin. A better wife than
her couldn't be found anywhere. She
was at work late and early, and
from the time that Jerry took her he
had the neatest and. purtiest place
Tor miles around. -Four or five Years
passed away, and there was fine
boy and girl runnin' around
the place, They war both beau.
tiful children, tall and shapelv,
and the dead spit of their faith
er and mother. There was one
very square thing about thin, how
ever, betune their toes there was
we bit of a web, just for all the world
like there is betune the toes of q duck.
And talkin' O. ducks, We never say a
duck 10 your life that was bit
fonder OF the wather than they war.
They would be into it mornin,' noon
and night, and never seemed to be
happy out of it - --s---.----s -
The boy was a perfect little imp,
and how could he be otherwise and
take afther his father. He'd climb
threes to find birds nests and stale all
the fruit he could lay his hands on.
The taller the threes war the betther
ne liked it. One day he was pokin'
away up in the rafthers, and what
does he find but the little red cap that
his father hid up there the night he
brought the mermaid home. Up he
runs to his mother at once wild it, and
shows it to her.
LOOK, NANNY" says he. "see
"What is it, allanna?"
"Oh, NANNY, the cutest little red
cap that ever We see,'' says the boy
handln' it over to her. She TUX it in
her hand and recognized it immediate.
ly. She stopped down and kissed both
OF the chlldher, and putin the cap on
her head darted down to the river. AS
she stood by the side of the water.
she looked back and saw her husband
ploughln' in the field. She paused a
minute as if the love in her heart
stood betune her and the charms of
the water fair es. The power of the
magic cap was too sthrong for her,
however, and into the water she
dlved just as the childhre KEN runnin'
up. Win they saw her divin,' in
they ran to the father.
Daddy says the boy, NANNY
AA'eo JuhIpOu 1llUO Ill0 WHCQor.
Jumped into the wather?'' saws
he
"Aye," says the boy. "she put the
little red cap on her head and afther
klss1n' the two OF us she run down to
the wather and jumped in"
When Jerry heard that he knew
that he'd never lay eyes on her again,
but ne madefor the river and called
her by name and begged her to come
back to him and the childhre and not
leave them alone Not an answer
could be got from tbs could-hearted
wather, so he turned back and made
his throubles known to the neighbors.
They could do nothing to help him
and told him the best thing he could do
was to 20 to the priest and ak his ad-
vice in the matther.
Up to the priest whit Jerry, but
small pity he got there.
"Out O. this, We ongodly crature,"
says he. "Out O. here at once wild
We! It's ashamed O. yerself We ought
to e! to be houldid' your head IN
among dacent people afther commit.
tin matrimony wild haste Of the
say. 60 home out o. this and thrv
to RIGHTLY the wrong ye've done, be
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