Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27

lis 40 Dau Uhlng TO nave Wnen one
wants it," repliSaa Dick, land maybe now
the fishes have tEs understanding to bring
up whatever you bid themP
"Oh, yes" said the Morrow; ''they bring
me what want"
"To speak the truth, then" said Dick,
"'tis a straw bed | have at home before
you, and that, Pm thinking is noways
fitting for a kings daughter; so if 'twould
not be displeasing to you just to mention a
nice feather bed. with a pair of new
blankets-but what am l thinking about?
Maybe you have not such things as beds
down under the water"
"By all MEANS" said she, "Mr. Fitz-
gerald, plenty of beds at your service
I've fourteen oyster beds of my own, not to
mention one just planting for the rearing
of young Ones"
"You havep says Dick, scratching his
head and looking little puzzled. "Tis
feather bed | was speaking of-but clearly
yours is the very cut of decent plan, to
have bed and supper so handy to each
other that person, when they'd have the
one, need never ask for the other"
However, bed or no bed, money or no
money, Dick Fitzgerald determined to
marry the Morrow, and the Morrow had
given her consent. Away they went there
fore across the strand, from Gollerus to
Ballinrunnig, where Father Fitzgibbon
happened to be that morning.
There are two worls to this bargain,
Dick Fitzgerald" said his reverence, look
ing mighty glum. "And is it a fishy wom-
an you'd marryS The Lord preserve usl
Send the scaly creature home to her own
people-that's my advice to you-wherever
she came from"
Dick had the cohuleen driuth in his
hand, and was about to give it back to the
Morrow, who looked GENEROUSLY at it, but
he thought for moment, and then
says he:
'Please, your reverence, she's a kings
daughter"
"If she was the daughter of fifty kings"
said Father Fitzgibbon, 81 tell you, you
can't marry her, being a fish,"
please, your reverence" said Dick
again in an undertone, she's as mild and
beautiful as the moon"
'If she was as mild and beautiful as the
sun, moon and the stars all put together,
tell you, Dick Fitzgerald" said the priest,
stamping his right foot, you can't marry
her, she being fishp
"But she has all the gold that's down in
the sea, only for the asking, and Pm a
made man if l marry her. And" said
Dick, looking up slyly, 81 can make it
worth any ones while to do the job"
"Oh, that alters the case entirely" re-
piled the priest. "Why, there's some rea-
son now in what you say. Why didn't you
tell me this before? Marry her, by all
means, if she was ten times a fish. Money,
you know, is not to be refused in these
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hansel of it as another that maybe would
not take half the pains in counseling you
that have done"
So Father Fitzgibbon married Dick
Fitzgerald to the Morrow, and like any
loving couple they returned to Gollerus
well pleased with each other. Everything
prospered with Dick-he was at the sunny
side Of the world-the Morrow made the
best of wives, and they lived together in
the greatest contentment.
1t was wonderful to see considering
where she had been brought up, how she
would busy herself about the house and
how well she nursed the children, for at
the end of three years there were as many
young Fitzgeralds-two boys and girl.
In short, Dick was "A happy man, and so
might have continued to the end of his
proper care of what he had got. Many an
other man, however, besides Dick has not
had wit enough to do that.
One day, when Dick was obliged to go to
Tralee, he left the wife minding the chill
dren at home after him and thinking she
had plenty to do without disturbing his
fishing tackle.
Dick was no sooner gone than Mrs. Fitz-
gerald set about cleaning up the house,
and CHANGING to pull down a fishing net,
what should she find behind it in hole in
the wall but her own cohuleen driuth.
She took it out and looked at it, and then
she thought of her father the king and her
mother the queen, and her brothers and
sisters, and she felt longing to go back to
them.
She sat down ON little stool and
thought of the happy days she had spent
under the sea; then she looked at her
children and thought ON the love and af.
lection of poor Dick, and how it would
break his heart to lose her. But" says
she, "he won't lose me entirely, for I'll
come back to him again, and who can
blame me for going to see my father and
my mother after being so long away from
themp
She got up and went to the door, but
came back again to look once more at the
child that was sleeping in the cradle. She
kissed it gently, and as she kissed it tear
trembled for an instant in hereye and then
fell on its rosy cheek. She wiped away
the tear, and turning to the eldest little
girl told her to take good care of her
brothers and to be good child herself I'M
til she came back. The Morrow went down
to the strand. The sea was lying calm
and smooth, just heaving and glittering in
the sun, and she thought she heard faint,
sweet singing inviting her to come down.
All her old ideas and feelings came food
ing over her mind, Dick and her children
were at the instant forgotten, and placing
the cohuleen driuth on her head she
plunged in.
Dick came home in the evening, and
missing his wife he asked Kathleen, his
little girl, what had become Of her mother,
but she could not tell him. He then in
quired of the neighbors, and he learned
that she was seen going toward the strand