The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-24

a TEDIOUS tnONuleatehces WI n & lINlNAu
abstomiousnoss, had given in ample
time for reflection, and by the time he
had been nourished back to strength ON
apple pie, cinnamon cake. nudels and
smierkase and found himself practically
apprenticed to a shoemaker lie felt that
he was no longer, even at heart, Zone of
the boys"
As soon as his period of invalidisn .
was safely over, however, when his eau
tious and worthy host was assured that /
his life was no longer in jeopardy, things .
were rearranged on business basis aud .
the terms were not satisfactory to the
prentice, who, with a true Celtic alac- /.
rity, had mastered the trade to degree
that surprised himself.
Before the occupation of the corner
shop by the Di Carlos cobbler had car
ried on business here, by which he and
a small barefoot family had managed to
live. and when Pat discovered the change
of tenants the bright idea of slipping
into this trade had occurred to him;
hence the proposition, conveyed by an
interpreter, to occupy oIbler's chair
in the new fruitshop.
The arrangement had mucl to recon-
mend it. On washdays, whe l the father
and the boys were out pee ding over
ripe stock, Pat often represel ted the en-
| tire business, calling shop on occa-
sion or even effecting Il trade when there
were no complications.
"Picayune O lemons, is il be would
say, for instance, to the SIN III boy Gus
TONER Fetch yer silver he r ill | feel
the heft av ut That's sole rings like
the bells o. heaven! Drop il bryant on
the counter. so. Now pick Eo big LEM
ons or three little vans. Tlat's man;
takes three middlin sizes. He's got a
business fist on im-ll be Vanderbilt
yet-nades a shoestring 70 lagniappe.n
And to himself, as the embryotic Van
derbilt departed, he would continue aft
er this fashion:
Faith an be the time l do work. up
me Dutch thrade wud daso's business
an throw in creole lagniappe | do
have to run me hand forninst Inc fiabby
pockutbook to know mesilf for Paddy"
And his soliloquy held as much truth as
humor, for Notwithstanding the fact that
he soon commanded neat little custom
Pats heart and hand were those of u
true son of the Emerald Isle.
From the day she first put up her pref
ty red lips for the shaggy old fellow to
Kiss his whole heart and purse had be-
longed to the baby Carlotta. As his
: mind had begun to run on shoe leather
his first spare dollar had gone for a pair
; of little red shoes for her when she was
hardly able TO tOddle
) This was the beginning and then there
, were other things-trinkets, a pair Of
. gold earrings set with turquoises (and he
r had locked himself in the coalhouse and
} stopped his ears while they were put into
| her little ears, and then later a thimble,
then prayer book and mother of pearl
2 rosary, and so it went.
l As he petted the little thing and the
5 other babies as they came he accused
l himself of an old mans fondness, though
g when this story begins he was, in fact,
3 but 40 years old.
3 Little Lottie came to stand in his life
in place of all he had lost and he took
| comfort in her calling himself IAN ould
t grandmother" while he buttoned her lit
tie gowns or washed her pretty little
ndllllS anu Lace iOi HVl'
1 "Say, Carlo" said the signora one day
e this was when Carlotta was about 9
years old-"wad you say eef we geev-a
f C'lotta to Meester Pad TO wife wan day
: ehS"
d .Indade, me RESPECTED mother-in-law,'
S Pat had replied, laughing, sure ye'rt
8 too late shpakin! Lottie an mes engaged
L six months, come Moody Graw."
= And so 1t gradually came about that he
. called the pretty dark eyed chlld me
sweetheart" me minded, me III
ture" and the like, While she would al
ways leave her father or mother TO go tc
Woona, her best baby ehort at ms name
Il in the early days when he vas MI hoo
: ney in the Di Carlo househ ID
u Within the last year. nc WeVer' wml'
p as untallingly attentive Al gentle, h'
: called her only Lottle, anc any allusior
. to the old jests was wlttily 5urned aside
In the evenings, after d TX Pat gen
. orally formed one OF the family clrcl'
g on the banquette about the doors mayor
> ing the conversation with lls lnVarlaol'
u humOr and mlrth.
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