Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-08-27
A MAN FROM COL00NEY.

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chine and consequently at a time
when fresh hands were hardly wanted.
His approach was leisurely aud philo-
sophicaL his manner as easy as the
flow of his conversation. his attire
light and picturesque.
The top of the mornin' to We, sor.
and many av thimF'
Civility, as the prove-b says is a
cheap commodity. / returned the
salutation. the original purveyor
thereof meanwhile adopting an easy
and graceful attitude against the pri-
vet hedge that separated Us
Tbs foine weather for the harvest
glory be to God, and it's me own
hands that is Uneasy to be handlin'
fork or rake wild the colleens beyant
there May be the masther has job
of worruk that he can give to man
loike mesilt
The master came toward us at that
moment
Here is a man who wants work. =
',Ah, God be good to yer honor so
DO indade. It's mesilf that has an
Elegant hand at harvest worruk.
Aud yer honorn give me Job Of
worruk9s"
His honor wanted no more hands
and said so abruptly. with certain
pointed remarks concerning the assur-
ance of people who go idle at the end
OF harvest
oh! papa! And it is not an hour
since you said you could do with an
other man to take Jobs place. Give
the poor man something to do.
The poor man looked over the
hedge. quick to seize the opportunity.
God be good to ye miss. but It's
only raison that swate young thing
loike yerself should spalze soft to d
poor man as is wanting worruk Sc
badly. All! now. your honorn give
me the worruk that the young lady
was spakin' Of. y
His honor gave in. beaten by The
touch OF his daughters little hand ant
the audacity of the bronzed feature:
before him.
Sure now he said. as l stood b,
hum among the corn. what time the
sun was doing its level best to burr
US in5o rags "'tfs molghty improvi
dent this spending of yer stren'th il
the hot SUNLIGHT It's aslape WI
should be this mint Worruk in tn
cool and Shape in the hot-that's how
we do at Colooney.
And where is CoiooneyT'
Sure. yer honor knows that Co
looney is in Sligo. l am from Co
looney mesilf"
You seem to have wandered
long way from home
All thin. but what good would
do and me not havin' seen to
wurruld? It's the Travelled men tina
makes fortins
The mau from Colooney stayed on
His sleeping chamber was in the hay
loft; he washed at the pump dlspens
ing in some mysterious fashion wit
the aid of soap or towel. He lounge
easily about the stackyard o. nights
but always retired into the paddoc
to smoke his pipe-a wise proceeding
which ingratiated him with the ma:
ter who had no mind to see his stack
burnt down. The women liked him
as they always do like anything hand
some and impudent He fetched an
carried for them. One day | foun
him laboring under a heavy wheel
barrow load of manure, which he wa
taking from the fold to the fowe
garden. He was actually sweatin
heavily and working hard withou
doubt
What does this mean?r inquired
Il thought you considered this sort
thing improvidentP"
The man from CoIooney regarde
me with humorous smile. His eve
twinkied. and one OF them close
itself for an instant.
'.Ah. thin. captain dear sure an
what can poor boy loike mesllf
when the sweetest voice in all th
worruld axes him to do little at th
gardening And it's yerself tn,
knows what swate voice that i
captain.
followed him into the garden an
found that under Miss Mauds instru
tions he had cleared a corner DR.,
viously given over to waste and weeC
and was rapidly bringing it into som,
thing like responsibility. He worke
hard that day and earned a right
rest and be thankful at night
'Ye see. captain. he remarked COZ
fidentially to me as met him washin
away the marks OF toll at the pumr
we see I'm that soft-hearted wild Ii
ladies. Divil bit OF me that doesn
do me best to oblige thin when the
come to me with their m urtherin' i'll
giant talk and says: Michael will J
do thisp and Michael will We
thatg All, its rnesilf that always W;
favorite wild the ladies'.
One morning hullabaloo arose
the vicinity of the stables The ma
ter Miss Maud and myself were cloi
by inspecting the young lady's ponie
and we hurried up. A stable boy he
lost five shilliugs from his coat as
hung in the stables, and was loud
lamenting the fact The men stan
ing around looked suspicious III
man from Colooney slept next to Il