The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-10-01

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maxim a polite bow to the ladies,
says: "Can ! be OF any service to
yez, darlin'si"
They let q screech out o. thin and
into the wather at once they pelted.
divin' out o. sight in an instant, all
but the poor girl that lost the hat.
III ye have my cap, sir, IA behold
en- to ye II We give it back to me and
let me 60 home, S>.ys she.
Sure the sight OF her two beautiful
blue eyes filled wild tears made Jerry
a'most ashamed OF himself, but the
divil a notion had he OF givin' up the
cap:
"Troth! ma'am," says he, "It's my
sell that would do anything in life Tor
We, but bad luck to the cap, big or lit
tie, have l to give to ye." The mer-
maid thin begin to cry and 90 on at a
great rate and Jerry thought it the
best plan to thry to soothe her bit.
"Arrah, don't be cryin, 'avourneen,"
says he. goin' over to her, "sure, may
be 1t will be for the best"
"Ochone! what will become o. me?7
says she, wild another bawl. "a poor
lone girl. and hundreds o. miles away
from home, and not one to spake q
kind word to her."
"Whisht! ashore, don't say that
There's a good bit o. road betune ye
and home, where ever that may be,
but seem there no help for it, maybe
can help ye out OF your trouble"
How" says she.
'What dye think o. me for good
stout lump OF a boy?" says he.
"Troth! I've seen worse in my time"
says she, lookin' up his face in a
most bewitchin' manner.
"I'll 60 bail we have" says he. "See
now, darlin, I've got a nice snug
farm wild as fne crops on it as ever We
laid eyes on and well stocked wild
everything We could wish for. The on
ly thing it wants is q misthress, aud
betune ourselves / think it wouldn't
be a bad iday for ye to change
your name to Mrs. O'Sullivan."
Don't say the word twice, Jer-
ry," says she, hinging her arms
around his neck and givin' him a
smather that we could hear a mile
of.
"Only say the word and I'llgo home
wild ye at once"
Jerry whit up to the neighbors, got
some clothes for the girl from the
women, and afther dhressin' her, got
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
for 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 shapely,
and the dead spit of their faith
err and mother. There was one
very square thing about thin, how
ever, betune their toes there was a
we bit OF web, just for all the world
like there is betune the toes OF a duck.
And talkin' O. ducks, We never say a
a duck in 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.
The boy was 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 bettber
he liked it. One day he was pokin'
away up in the FATHERS, 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 found"
what is it, allanna2"
ooh, nanny, the cutest little red
cap that ever We see," says the boy
handin' it over to her. She TUX it in
her hand and recognized it immediate
ly. She stopped down and kissed both
of the childher, 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
ploughin' in the field. She paused a
minute as II the love in her heart
stood betune her and the charms OF
the water fairies. The power OF the
magic cap was too sthrong for her,
however, and into the water she
dived just as the childhre KEN runnin'
up. Whin they saw her divin,' in
they ran to the father.
Daddy" says the boy, NANNY
has jumped into the wather."
Jumped into the wather?" says
he.
"Aye," says the boy. "She put tine
little red cap on her head and afther
kissin' 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 he 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 ths 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 90 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, ye ongodly crature,"
says he. "Out o. here at once wild
vel It's ashamed o. yerself we ought
to bel to be houldid your head up
among dacent people afther commit
tin matrimony wild q haste OF the