Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-18
thatch doesn't take and slip down on their

thatch doesn't take and slip down on their
| ould heads"
Belize it's lave of the likes of you /
| ousht 10 be akin where I'm to git grain
| .ui me own cattle? growl of sarcastic
snunder was just then observing to which
| nasned scsthing response: And bedad.
| oHen, IL lave you had right to be AKIN
aiore you sent of me poor son Hughey's
| bit of Pat, to be wastin' his time mind
| IN your ould scarecrow and gettin' him
sen ohrownded in the tide It's no thanks
~ you II the innicent child isn't as like as
| not ioyin' this minute under six fut az
ccuio wather instead of fetchin' me in the
| f OF me Kettle that I'm roarin' to him
na ne, unis nan hour. and neer a Twin sin
saints above! Is little Pat strayin' along
49, VIII .he cow? said Mrs. Fottrel much
.h was noticin' 1 didn't see him
of of him mne 49, .nis evenin,: What's to become
nelshtn or iverythin' as fast as n can fou ,
| sure TINS mornin twas wallopin' itself
i Hs au 'ie wall; back of our place. ft to swal-
why didn't You tell me the child wos
below? said Mick. I'D len down ,hars
anu 1etch MIN up aisy enough: on'v tbere
was no MORTAL use goin' after the cow. for
ne'er crathur that took its stand ON fa AZ,
hoofs 'ud git its own ZENITH up the c1isr
unless 1t might be some little divil of q Goat
ana the wather's dhrowndn' deep along
side II afore now"
| Musha, good gracious sure all 7 dona
was to bid the spalpeen be keepin' an eve
on her now and agin while he would he
p tny1r about about there" said Joe: land it's
| tWlnty chances If liver he did at Ali
| Trapesed of wild himself somewberes. ha.ii
be right enough be this time "Tisn't the
nkes OF him to go to loss, it's the ouare
| nve-poun note he'd fetch at Athenry fair. -
| :, ne might ha' broke his legs climbin'
disp'ri on the rocks" said Mrs. Fottrel.
| unconvlnced by the arguments from un-
| saiability, and be lynn there now wait
IN M tor tne say-waves to wash the life out
| nj ~ h.
| sure, I'll step down and see what's gone
| wild him." said Mick
The descent Of the cliff, though not risk
t ,eSS; was no great feat for an active
youth. and Mick accomplished it safely,
| put TO little purpose, he thought at first
since the irreclaimable COW appeared to be
tne sole denizen of the shrinking beach.
However, when he had shouted and scram-
bled for some time without result. he came
abruptly upon nook among the piled-up
rocks, where a very small black headed boy
IN tattered petticoats was digging the san
uy moor with a raZor-shell,
Och, it's there you are" said N,icL
Stepping down from a weedy ledge; land
S what have you in it at all that you didn't
near me bawlin' to your"
"Throops." said Pat, gloatinplv almost,
100 absorbed to glance of his work: .it's
baiyciaVVy, the way IL did be in the
sSno9i readin' book at Duffclane There's
OF biack-mouthed mussei-shells. mounted
on perwinkle carriages-''and here's the
sides of the valley I'm maxim. long and
narrer II was. Just step round and look
airy" en cav
The divirs in it ALL" said Mich with =.
sudden bitter vehemence. which ne ac-
counted Tor to himself by adding, as he
pointed towards the seething white Iina.
ID you see where that's come to. Won little
bosthoon? And You sittin' grubbin' away
n nGre aS !, you We're pitaty-diggin' a dozen
Fat looked in the desired direction but
Inexperienced the object to be the ives
Tern SKY. where an overblown fiery rose
seemed to have scattered all its metals
broadcast. Sure, that's on'y the sun g,
TIN red like" he explained indifferentIy
ana would have resumed his excavations IL
me- me- ha al not been seized and hustled half
way up the cliff before he could diseneare
ms mind from his brigades and batteries
Both heads soon bodied up over the aSee
without accident; for Pat climbed like a
tion H. "nen once he grasped the situa-
Joe McEvoy constrained her to receive
MN enusively as prey snatched from the
,oamlng Jaws Of death: but it was out OF
dron 600 - Pocket that peppermint
of life '' nc" tease
ana what are You after now. Mick?, she
s sanu, OBSERVING that instead of drawing
iiIiiiseiI up 10 level ground, he stood poised
on an uncomfortable perch and looka6 haot
tne steep way he had come
=, m thlnkin' to slip down ayin.r he soia
,s anu see II De any manner of names 1 could
nuroosna IN ould haste round the rocks
yonder The wather mightn't be aItogsthar
700 ueep tnere yit; at all evints she's he
tween the divfl and the deep say where She
is now; It's just a chanst'
''Sorra a much" said Joe d,sco,so,..,..
anyway" oones AFTER
Bones. how are your" Sure. there's mn
ssid @5,n De oreakin' bones in the matter"
m
true enough. IL he had minded what he ~as
ABOUT: but then he did not So far from, o.
ne was saying to himself: ''One 'ud ba'
nriSa ~; now she might ha' took a sort of
Prlue IN IL, when the bottom of the world
seemed to drop away from under his fee,
ana his irrelevant meditations oniad IN =
scattering thud down on the rocky pave
ment long way below He neyar be,rJ ~,
SHOUTS and shrieks which the inciiant ~
casloned above his head. Once only he re-
came ulmly conscious of a ouiye-iug net
Work OF pr1smatic flashes. which he could
not see through, and a booming throh ~, bis
ears, which made him murmIr dazail,,.
Nlrra, thought I'd got beyond the hearin'
OF or, them drums" In another moment.
Mhat TOOK me-? he said, with A star.
But the depths he sank among remain 81
ways dark and silent
Next DAY messengers from Tullyklllaein
told Mrs. Doherty that she Lord had TOOK
her son Mick, and that he hal .rnna en-,
to say wild the tide before tnav cs,,iid o ~
anybody to him, and there was no te,iin,
where he might be swep' up, if ever he sa,1e
And the quarest part Of II was that Joe
McEvoys ould cow hat he went inter ma
iegged herself up somehow on the ROCKS
out OF reach, and niver a harm on her ,rhe,,
.hey found her in the mornin'. But she'd
peen All OF could CULVER ever since arr
himself doubted II she'd rightly cir over II
might the divil mend FER. and she afte~ he:n,
the death of fine young man. Sure. every
sowl up at TullykillasIn was rael ainovad
ABOUT It. Even ould Biddy Dusxan. that
was as cross tempered as n weasel. did lie
frettin' for the lad: AMI Joe NcEyoy was
sittin' crooched like an ould wet hen, over his
nre biock out, that he naln't the heart 10
Mrs Doherty said she didn't know what
taik they had of the Lord AMI the say ana
the ould COW; but she'd known well enodgh
tne way IT was when Mick niver come home
last night. He'd just took off after the
soulolers, as he'd a great notion one time
she was, as may have been observed.
rather a dull-witted woman, and proportion
ateiy hard to convince against her will
"A great notion intirely," said she; ''on'y
shed scarce have thought he'd go do such
thing on her in arrest And / runnln'
away indoors Yesterday out of the heighth
or the divarsion, when the band music was
thrate to be hearin', just to see his bit OF
supper wouldn't be late on him. Ana the