The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

turf The sultTy forenoon gradually, da,roI
oped into thick gray mist and. flnallv
an angry downpour At first Mickv ana
Thady Flynn, being Kerry men. Maid No
attention to the elements, but at Iangtb
they were both compelled 10 shelter at the
lee side Of a turf clamp where with q
sack over his shoulders and a dhudeen in
his mouth Micszy made the best of circurn-
stances. He and Flynn discussed the fair
the fishing, the potato spray, the last Land
act and the prospects Of Cork Park races.
'An' talking of racing, Micky, I sun
pose there's no chance of your young
2-year-old taking the road of his own ac-
cord?" asked Flynn rather anxiously.
MOT at all! In the first place. | have
him tethered with bit Nv a suggawn.
besides. he has as much sense as an old
man."
'Well. it would be hard to bate old Ter.
ry for cuteness; he was a great ass in his
day."
He was so, but he was getting foun-
dered in the feet and shabby in the coat
an an eyesore TO herself, so 1 had to ger
shut av him, an 1 was main sorry, for
Matty and him was reared together-and
l always had wish for the haste, Well.
maybe we'd better be making a push for
home now. The new little chap may be
getting unaisy in himself standing so long
in the pouring rain" And Micky, with
some difficulty, got upon his legs, drew the
ack over his head anu hobbed stiffly
Away to where he had left his yoke.
YES, there in deed was the cart, but
Vince was the new chap, the gay little
prow1 donkey?
MieR stared in appalled, silence, then
pinchea himself vigorously, finally turned
merely TO his companion, and shouted
In hoafe, tremulous voice:
Now, What pistrouge is this? What
old witch VAS been casting spells on me
grand N sea hot do anI1
Thady Flyna?"
FAX, avn didn't know that I was
sober, an av hadn't me Swim senses. Ia
call him ould\Jerry An may 1 never,
II he doesn't Know his nameY' he added
in an awestruck key.
lis some bhggard as has gone and
robbed me-" Shouted Micky; taken off
the young wan ana left me with his Old
God help US! 'T!s either that, or the
fairies! I'm thinking-"
AN I'm thinking as it is the tinker as
has been playing his little tricks on We
ag'in. Sure, they are the greatest horse
copers in the wide world See how well
he has pared and shoi the ould ones
hoofs, and filed his teeth and fed him up,
an an" with yell of laughter, paint
ed him. But the paint wouldn't wash, We
see. Look how it has all run off av him,
as if he was three-penny Calico" and he
held up his hand covered with a dark
brown stain.
''Oh, mother av Moses! What sort of
thievery do We call this?' screamed Micky,
now rubbing the donkeys thick wet coat
with the same result.
'Begor them thinkers is too clever to
live!" exclaimed Thady with another vo-
lent outburst. "They took in a power be-
sides yerself. Sure not one in Thady's
Corner but thought he was a new baste
and them acquainted with Jerry this
J0l 0Iraf Io11f ala
giant joke as I've come across this many
a dayw
Tis fine to be you, roaring and baw-
ling and staggering there; sure, I'll be the
laughing stock of the barony, and what
will herself say?"
Eye wouldn't" now gasping for breath
and drying his eyes on his coat sleeve,
give him another coat av paint, sup
poser" asked Thady in a choked voice as
he hitched himself up on the car.
'Augh! paint, indeed! Don't be talkin
to me av paint" rejoined the other flu
riously, as, with savage bang on poor
Jerrys hide, he ratified away homeward.
At first he turned deaf ear TO all his
companions sympathy, Establishments and
affectionate efforts at consolation; the only
thing that could afford him the smallest
relief was the tinkers blood.
Now take it aisy, Micky, me darlin',"
urged his counsellor, as they began 10
breast the last hill; I'VE had good ass
yesterday, ye have the same animal to-
day. Sure, We never half-valued him
afore; with clever shoeing and a few odd
locks of hay We won't know him from ould
Jerry, and when the laugh is raised
against you take my advice and laugh,
too, and that will soon stop them.
Mrs Sullivan, when her first shrieks of
horror and amazement had subsidized, re-
ceived the news with astonishing fortitude.
T cd of n
right when he turned the chapel corner so
clivir," she said in a voice of tragic calm,
''but, at the worst, L thought he was
fairy"
"An' I thought it mighty quare when he
made straight for the pigs tub the mo-
ment he was out of the shafts added
Judy "but 1 never suspicioned 1t was
Jerry himself. Oh! but those thinkers
would bate the divil!''
Before night the news of the manner OF
Jerry's return had penetrated into every
cabin within a radius of two miles, and
Micky Sullivan took Thady Flynn's hint
and received the grinnng coincidence of
his friends with the aplomb of man OF
the world, made quite the best of the sit
uation, laughed till. as he subsequently
expressed it, che hadn't an eye in his
head" and dwelt persstently upon the
fact that che was no worse took in than
the whole Corner, nor half the fail"
Inc FlynnS ana COnnOrS, VINO Ildu DSeH
secretly envious of the splendid brown
trotting ass, were now both relieved and
good-humored.
"Begor, / always said as ould Jerry
come of good stock, was a great fellow
and had a power of work in him., pro-
claimed Mrs. Flynn in her loudest key.
Eye did So" acquiesced Micky, land
knows a good haste when We see him. not
like me, as couldn't keep valuable ar
ticle when l had it, till it was, so to speak,
forced on me again. An Matt will be
terrible proud to know as we have the old
playfellow still"
''But what will Matt be after saying to
We, Mick, when he hears how We spent the
good four pounds he sent home? What
will he suspicion when he hears that We
went and laid it out in buying yer own
Guild ASST" demanded malicious female
voice.
But to this question Micky Sullivan, the
inventive and ready in retort, could find
no fitting reply.
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