The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-10
thought he wanted to be at rlc about

thOuBnt nc Wdnteu 10 ne NJ ric ABOUT
the rampagin' villin of the captin's.
"'Becase,' says he, important-like,
bridget Harrigan is goin' to marry
Tom O'Shca!'
"'What.' says I.
"It's a fact says he.
"'lou lie, Billy Sheehan,' says I, for
was mad.
"'Very WELL says he, marclnn' away
with his little fiddle under his arm,
/ If i do says he, Il won't lie at your
Fnure, for anyhow it will be n long tonne
before you'll want me to fiddle at your
weddin', unless ye takes up wild the
turnip-headed one!' And away he whit
down the street, whistlin' The Weddin'
of Ballypoureen.'
"Well, sor, twas thrue enough what
the little blackguard had been afther
tellin' me; Bridget was to be married
| directly Lent was over, ana Father
Cronin had been spoken TO, and Tom
O'Shea had got the master to give him
small cottage and few acres, just
what / had my eye on, too. bad cess
to him.
""rwas TO be the grandest weddin'
at all at all! A pig was killed and an
illigant little keg of whisky stood on
the dresser, wild a tap ready to be
driven into it. Well, the mcrnin' of the
day when Tom O'Shea was to be mar
Tied, he was out Shawn h,iaself at the
cabin dure, when up comes little Billy
Sheehan out of breath, and widout the
little fiddle.
"'Tom. says he, when he could
/ spakc, you're done
"'No, I'm not says Tom lltherin' the
other side of his jaw, but I'm half done,
and I'll do you too, my little fiddler,
while me hand is in, for the gurls
might think yer chin Bit rough for
a wcddin'.'
"'Therell be no weddin' this day
says BILLY.
"'What are YOU talkin' about, man
ulvc?' snys Tom.
80! The thruth. as I'm n Twin man.
says Billy. The woman won't have
ye'
won't have me-? says Tom. 60
long. me little joker
| lPlNli 90 JplNN' . - ~ ''ii' y '7'N
tin ~ home in her common clothes,
and she says she won't have ye. And
the foivc gallons of the best whisky in
Oreland, and grand pig just waitin'
to be swallowed. O, It's wicked, ter
rblc wicked intoirely,'
"'Wel!.' says Tom, cool as the day
after Christmas, wait till | wash the
lathcr OF me. an I'll jog down to tho
farm and see what ails me lady, for Tn
very much sot on being married to
day.
, "Whin he got 10 the house. there
, was the divil's ructions goin' on. The
ould man and Peg and an ould aun
, that lived wild EN-. they were all a
Bridget, coaXin' and bcggin' ant
, badgerin' her to marry Tom, and all Il
. no good; the more they talked thu
more Bridget sat still and said nothin,
only the face of her showed she mean
to have her way.
AS soon as liver Tom came in sh
/, said, SAYS she: Tom O'Shea, I'm yer.
sorry. but won't marry ye, and there
p my hand on it,"
I well, Tom took a lucifer match on
-, of his pocket and lit his poipe, and sd
g down; but the diyil aFword he sale
t Only all the neighbors outside, think
4 ing of the pig and the whisky, said
great deal; they couldn't bear t
!, think of the waste that Bridget wa
. bringin' on the family. And the oul
father, too, he was terrible mad, know
n in what people were sayin'.
r AT length Peggy up. an says she
t I'll tell We what, Biddy. if we give IN
Q them grand clothes We have for tn
o weddin' I'll marry Tom O'Shea mysel
Z sooner than the family should be di.
n graced in this way
. Faith says Bridget, we may hay
;. livery stitch l have in the world il y
: marry Tom, an me blessin' into tn
d bargain
Z "But Tom sat still smokin' his due
r heen and turnin' the matter over in hi
i head. At the long last he said, straigh
G and strong: What boot will get"
O "'What boot will we get" says tn
!; ould father.
n Yes says Tom; what will y
@ throw inn
Il "'What do We want" says Mike Hal
!. rigan, striyin to end the matter con
G Portable an friendly.
l. "'Well.' says Tom, there's that two
r acre field that broken haven't graf
+ to set it with. Now, IL you'll throw
v bag of seed oats, along wild Peggy, it
lie a bargain
II Done says the old man, an b
4, spts in the palm of his fist and houlo
id il out straight and friendly to Tom.
in $50 the match was made, and the
n shook hands on it. An Tom said
lie Billy Shechan the day after the weddin
when they got sober, he didn't right
~ think there was more than the diffe
d ence OF bag of oats between any t"
RI women alive.
n WELL sor, a couple of months aft'
pr Pegs weddin' me an Bridget was ma
NJ ried: for twas me she wanted all II
IL time, only she got mad that didn't
40 her an didn't come dcwn to that dane
is all along o. that etarnal rogue of Il
....;,.u And faith she's been