The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-05
DAN HOG.I!N'S RiBY.
How Big Mary Didn't Come Back aud
Red Ne Drrmott Raised thr Dead

A stork Las come to the "-L!p'-the spae-
wife said it would and Joy retsn~ in the home
Of the HoSans. surely YOU know Dan Hogan;
everybody in the ward knows Dan. They're
not of A thrifty race, these Hogans. Life IS
so short. they think. They let others delve
while they sleep; its a.. ore In the end, they
know. They live u the llm!, Of their means.
They have meat three times a day aud u little
something for the plate on sunday morning,
so that the conf ~ Of "A stork or two adds but
little 10 their burdens. Nc man goes hungry
from their door: no man Is better .iSc'l In the
ward than Dan, and TO him the flowers in MAY
are no more welcome than the bird Of fable.
The winged messenger Il course was not
unlocked tor. nor had The neigabors need TO
climb the housetops TO mark it and it, -trad
died treasure in the air. for Mrs. Hog III was
popular among the women a. Dan was among
men. and her affairs they kindly and invaria-
bly, made their own. When they criticised
their ne.ghtors' wash If "A Monday morning
they never omitted her. II she stands at
the kitchen window with her mouth full cf
pins and Dams rel shirt they know to the rip
Of a sleeve what going on In the house.
Her pulley line i, an excellent cude ot sig
nails. From the hung linen in the yHriS they
learn sometimes what thay can't overhcar in
the hail. so that on Monday last, when
neither Of Dams two rel shirts flapped IN the
morning wind. the neighbors guessed the
cause. they knew the truth, Indeed the stork
had come.
An addition to the ward was not remark
able at all: but lau's new oath OF allegiance
To the country Wa Registered fur hlprk-
around, and ~ In the women TO Nct without
ado, 70 guess the sex and s've a name 10 bold
IA boy. /, IL" cried one, rs they all entered.
''GuesS again -a!I auut.er.
"A girl" NuntUre'l a H. RI.
You're the di,il NJ gle-stn' " said Big Nary
RegAn. Poor Mary Sow u. when You hear
rises 10 your lips, please withhold Il; tt'S your
widest charity she leeds, and not repru"t. She
wis not a fixed star. ~h" vas what the police
ton were unco tain. but her course was true.
She rotated between the wuTAhnuSe amt
Huglu's, u poor, wchN minded, wret"9ed Spc-
C.uen o., wonanAn"d. WIN only sP"rIg,, Il 50
briefly, VITA her aged mother ~" dNe.t in
the shin" on til uts tr -ide - a." all from
the Hoggu-. The lI"gaus kurN her we'll every
body IN the ward knew her
he allowed Tor the eNre-sss ~ the woman when
he member her EugH qualities, ant that
he uace was a cripple. Her own enemy, his own
CO-untryWrman Hr gave her LeIp when ltten lac
needed IL for hi, own. bUt that's Dan Hogan.
Mar and the rest Of the women crowded 10
the bed, AZ any rate. raSrr Z" see u" LITTLE one
Just AS eager 10 show, and proud, too,of course,
pinChed the BLANKET down, and there she lag
As rosy ~ a MAY NORA the hope AMI very
'AHits lie cut Of pun." aid one with a AZ
bust. her hands N hrr g]enrrou- hips.
ITS the spit Of han, said aDOfhcT.
lis the mother through and through.
1T looks Ike the foreman OF the hook and
ladder whispered 4 G4lsChte; maker from the
eI door. but AS shr was a notorious scan
Mr.. Hogan the while, half sittiug In the led.
hsr weight wGA hsr elbow. looked fJndly ~