The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-11-02

was comm in because tits getting late
in the evenin' so We can be marrlu
comfortably off-hand an 10 bother
about it; there's a fine room up stairs,
an a bed that's fit for a king, an
they're lightin' the fire there now so
the smoke will be cleared out when
we're ready. for sweet bad luck to me
if either O. We go u of this house to-
night"
, OF course Kitty, who had remained
in the parlor, blushingly objected, a
mere matter of detail which did not
affect the arrangements in the least,
while Phelim, who had made up ms
mind that the bargain was a good one,
became properly impatient, so that
when Father Pat made his appearance
he found an air of undeniable feStlvlty
peryading the house, the genial sulr1t
of the hour breathing upon all, from
Murteen, the oldest farm laborer, VINO
had got drunk with amazing CELEBRITY,
to the young lovers themselves as they
sat hand in hand under the fostering
smiles of Mr.. Lanigan Whine he pelted
the amorous swain with appropriate
badinage.
The good father, who had been that
very evening anticipating a cod
Shroye." was no forbidding figure in
this scene of Arcadian felicity, and
after some passages of decorous hilar-
ity the mystic knot was tied, and
Phelim McCaul. though he had entered
the house only an hour before a bach
elor, found himself pledged for life to
Catherine Pilomena 1anigan.
This important ceremony having
been transacted, the home of the LAM
gan's became a perfect focus of gay
ety.. a few n~eighbors and a blind piper.
whom very instinct had led to the
spot. keeping the impromptu merry
making afoot.
Father Pat. a quaint figure not destl-
tute of a certain pathos and dignity
amid this somewhat boistcrous jolhty,
presided in the parlor and gave
"tone' to the rejoiclngs; now praising
Cissy's pancake, now joking with the
young, o gossipihg with the oid
and later on taking a hand at a quie'
game of "forty-tivc'' with Lanigan, the
bridegroom and one Corney GLOON
n clerical student, a cousin or tht
family. Finally, it was he who pro
posed the health of the new weddet
nair. in an eXtempore speech. winding
up with n neat little quotation IRON
Marital. which Mr.. O'Loon prompt.
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fusion. but to the unmitigated salts
faction of his relations, who secret.
believed him to be a far superb
scholar to the parish priest, and SOC
after Father Pat took his departure
going back to his lonely house, til
richer by a ten-pound note and
fresh experience in the ways or hu
manity.
When the priest had gone, dancin
commenced in the great kitchen. Mr'
McCaul did not, however, take part
the proceedings, but quietly retired
her room, while Peggy footed it wit
the most hopeless detrimental in tn
parish to the tune of THE Wind Tha
Shook the Barley"
The next morning Phelim cam
e down stairs in a great hun. "Jac
Lanigan," he shouted, come here
yer'r a manr'
"Arrah, there We aire me bhoy," ol
e served Lanigan, cheelfully. Its ligl
It an airy We are; the top of the morni
y to We, I was comm up to know we
il We awake. how's yerself?"
y "See here" roarcd the deluded brid
j." groom, "why did We give me that 81
II inside with wan leg longer than ii
IL other?"
=, "Sure, didn't We see herr" retortt
III the fa~therin-law, IAN didn't "
N choose her from the three of emp
le II know that quite WE'LL" rejoin'