The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-15

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mcnt lad scantv rc DIN among his fore
.as:s Sure. I'd :; right to give 1T to
DER i've -. Wy : S, wild anythin' at
al inside 1t. for amn't | AKIN ncr to
take meseif in n manner like that,
whether rood. bad or indif'rint comes
of it?-On'y it's scarce IS apt, worse
luck, to be any great things IS the full
of a grand-lookin' box is. But she
might understand twas as much as to
say I'd be wishfuI she had every chance
of the best that could git for her, the
crathur, if it was all the gold and sill
yer and diamonds that ever were
dhrownded under the say-wather, and
nd never think to be Ioolcin' TO reckon
them, no more than if they were so
many handfuls of ould pebbles off %
the strand" Thus reflected Joe, who
had a vein of sentiment, which some
times oUtran his powers of expression.
And thereupon, leaving the box atop OF
the wall, he went 10 look after the
pigs. lie found them ali surviving,
though the storm had caused some
adaptations in their abode, which
obliged him TO do a little rough car
pentry, and kept him hammering and
humping for several minutes. and
when he returned to the place where
he had left the box, the box was gone.
He searched wildly for it among the
litter ON both sides Of the wall, and no.
where could it be seen. Yet at that
hour what man or mortal was there
abroad to have stirred it? Then he
thought that the weeds looked wetter
than they had been, and he said to
himself that lone OF them waves must
ha' riz up permiScuous and sweep it off
IN a furry while his back was turned;
and a fine general he'd been to go lave
IL widin raich of such thing happen
in it" SO, as no more satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION was forthcoming, he turned
homeward, emptyhanded and crest
fallen. But before he had taken many
steps. he saw sitting undeps the lee of
the yard wall, Tom O'Meara, Roses
brother, who was generally recognized
to be counting Mary Kenny, Joe's
youngest sister. The O'Mearas lived
good step beyond the other end of the
isthmus, and Joe had begun to specu-
late on what so early visit might sig
Nifty, when the greater wonder abrupt
" swallowed the less as he became
in his hands
''Look-a Joe, at what I'm after find.
in" he called jubilantly.
"Findin'? Musha Moyahl that's fine
talkin'," said Joe. And where at all
did you find it, then?"
Where it was to be had" said Tom,
promptly adjusting his tone to Joe's,
which was offensive.
Then it's sittin' atop of our wall
there it was" said Joe. ''Whethen,
now, some people has little enough to
do that they can't keep their hands off
meddlin' wild things they find sittin'
on other peoples yard-walls."
And suppose it was sittin' on any
body's ould wall" said Tom, what
else except a one of them rowlin' waves
set it sittin' there wild itself. and it all
dhreepin' wet out of the say? BE the
same token it's square if one person
hasn't got as good right to be liftin'
it off as another. Troth and bedad. I'd
somethin' betther to do than to be
standin' star-gazin' at it al day, wait
in to Ak lave of the likes Of yous"
IN soon show you the sort of row.
lin wave there was. me man, if you
don't throuble yourself to be handin' it
over out of that, and l after piclin' it
up this half-hour ago." said Joe, with
furious irony.
Come on wild you, come on Tom
shouted, jumping to his feet with
general flourish of defiance At this
point the dispute babe fair to become
an argument without words, and would
probably have done so had it not been
that the two young men were the
brothers of their sisters As it was,
a sort of Roman-Sa bine complications
fettcred and handcuffed them. -'DiviI
4 thing else was intendin' to do wild
it, but bring it straight ways in To your
sister Mary" said Tom, that you
need go for TO be risin' rows about the
matter"
Its for Roses Christmas box; that's
what l think bad OF. said Joe.
Let's haITe 1t between the two Of
them, then. whatever it Is" said Tom, /
feeling that 4 compromise was the ut (
most he could reasonably expect from
And so it was arranged. rather weak I
" on Joe's part, he being the better
man of the two. and well within his
rights. if he had chosen 20 claim the /.
box Internationally The joint pres
entation should take place. they !
agreed, on Christmas eve. the next day /
but one, when Rose O'Meara would be I
visiting the kennyS: and then Tom de- /.
parted whistling, with the pick he had
come TO borrow the loan Of. while Joe :
cou>oled himself as best he could for I
this arbitrary subtraction OF more than /
half the pleasure and romance from his 4
mornings find
Late on Christmas eve, when the I
kennys' kitchen was full of glancine 4
freight. and the Widow Kenny. with I
her son ana daughter and her guests ,
Tom and Rose O'Ncara. had all hac I
their tea. Joe and Tom were seer .
to often whisper and nudge one al. /
other. unti! ~ last Joe got up and pro 4
duced the bcx from its secret hiding
place But Tom hastcned TO forestan .
hiIu a spokesman. placing consider. .
able confidence in his own perspicacity .
and grace Of diction- he said:
See Won here. Mary and Rose. This !
conSarn's 4 prisint the two Of Us Is /
after gettin' the two II you>-I /
name It was Joe found i aguillv the |
same "a me. That picked II 10 So-a,- |