The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-02
THADY FLYNNS MISTAKE.

listeners. "I'll tell ye a little story
that'll give a bit of an idea what 1
mean"
"Once upon time" and now Paddy's
face beaned with merriment, ian Irish
man and friend of my own, took it in
to his head that he would try better
country. l don't mean to say that
there's better country than ould Ire
land under the whole face of heaven,
but times were bad then, and many a
dacent man was thinking he might get
better bit and sup by migration
than he could get in his own dear coun-
try.
Ellis master sent for him and he
says;
about you?
"'Och, sur, an you can hear nothing
about me but meself, and I'm not shpak-
in
But you're going away, Thady, they
say
"'You may say that, sur, for I'm two
stone lighter than when l came to you
"'But what's taking you away?'
Just my own feet and legs, DEAR
"'You are short with me this morn
ing, Thady.'
"'Why, then sure I'm as long as
was yesterday. But masther dear, I'm
going to Australy to get bit of land for
myself and Judy, and where we can get
praties for the childer just for the dig
ging, and have Il sweet little cabin of our
own far in the woods, and niver a morsel
of rint to pay
But, Thady, are you not afraid of
the blackamoor wild natives that live in
the woods and may come down some
dark night and tomahawk youP'
"' Afraid! Is it an Irishman afraid?
They tummyhawk me! Show me one
of them that could touch me! But sure
and I'd not know one of '0m from Adam
when | see Them
"'Oh, Thady, they're wild looking
rascals, and you'd better stay home
"'Stay at home, is it2 Arrah, my
dear, and It's poor Thady that has no
home to go to, for the landlord put Judy
out Yesterday for three and sixpence, and
now I'll stay no longer here. Och!
sweet Mullingar and the days of my
youth, when was fed like a fighting
cock and Judy was my darling, and the
world was light and easy on usL 1t was
then we had the great big nogging O.
broth for dinner, instead of the pock-
marked praties that the pigs in Mullin
gar wouldn't eat, and buttermilk as thin
and sour as crane o. tartar! Farewell,
masther dear, and may God Almighty
be wild yees ALL
$50 over the salt seas poor Thady
went and Judy, that never had been on
the rowling ocean before, now saw no.
thing at all at all for weeks but the
green sea and the blue sky. Och, but it's
meself could discourse about the sea and
sky! How the whales, and the dolphins
and the sharks rowl in the water and
the stars and the moon and the sun look
down on the coral beds at the bottom of
the sea, and when the wind begins to
blow like mad, and the waves 90 up and
then go down, and the sails are torn in
to shreds with noise like thunder, and
there's ten feet water in the hold and
the ship is sucked down into the bub-
bling sea- How men women and children
send up one dreadful scream that rises
above the blast and pierces the very gate
of heaven. There's description for vel
But Thady arrived safe in Australy
with Judy and the children, and off they
trudged into the bush to try and get
bit of land to settle on. Some Irish
to shelter the family, and he says to one
of them:
Where do them blackamoor negurs
live that l heerd about in our own coun-
tryiP,. ,,.. :. .,,o.o ., . ,,
"sAnd Corny, tell me, have you ever
seen any of them?
Seen them? To be sure 1 have!
There's scores of them in the BUSH
'And what makes them black, Corny?
Sure, couldn't the dirty cratures keep
themselves Christian white?
cts the climate, they say, but what
the climate is mesilf doesn't know
From that day forward Thady was
very anxious to see blackamoor native.
One day, roaming the bush with a
Ratchet in hand, he saw quare looking
individual reclining at his ease on the
green sod. Thaddy felt sure that at last
he had clapped his eyes on one of them,
so he came up close.
g. Musha,' says he, but 1 never seen
one o. yeur sort afore. Why man, you'll
get Your death o. cowld lying there
THE wild man of the woods looked
up. Queen o. glory what nose he hadl
He appeared disposed to try fall with
Thady.
"'And it's for wrestling you are? Stop,
agrah, you grip too tight-take your fist
out of my shoulder or I'll have an unfair
hoult on you. oh, murder, murder, but
you're the jewel of a squeezer!" s1 :
.. 'But Thady contrived to get his tobac-
co knife out and gave his enemy probe
in the right place, and down he fell, to
rise no more.
$50 murder, murder! I've kilt one of
them blackmoor blackguardsl I'll be
hanged-as I'm a living man I'll be
hanged! Och, why did | leave ould Ire
land? Poor Judy and the childer will
see me die an unnatural death for this
blackamoor thiefl Och hone, Och hone,
what4wiA do? What will do?'
"a neighbor in the woods came up.
" And what ails you, Thady?' says he.
You roar like a bull in a bog 'l'H
" What ai1s me? Och, but I'm a sor-
rowful man this blissed day! Just gave
one o. them thieves a prod and there he
is, and I'll be hanged for murder! Och,
why did leave ould Ireland?' t. t'
" Mercy on us, Thady, and cease yer
roaring, mani Why,i it's kangaroo that
three men couldn't kill--and we've done
it by yerself. Hurrah for ould Ireland
and ths-Irishp
A MILLION FRIENDS.