Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-23

keep before his eyes the fear OF what he'd
meet with from the King Of Donegal when
he'd come back II he wasn't master OF his
thrade. Jack promised faithfully that 1t
wouldn't be his fault or he'd know the ins
and outs of the business so far as the ould
buffer that he was 'prenticed to could put
him. Billy then set out for home again and
there was nothing more heerd OF me brave
Jack till the three years was UP.
They weren't long in passin' and on the
day after the end of the three years Jack
comes steppin' into his fathers house, and
Rilly, l can tell you, was delighted to see
him. He hardly knew him, for he had
grown to be as fine and able lookin' a man
as you'd meet in the longest day in sum-
mer.
Jack" says his father, says he, THROWN
his arm about him, have ye larned yer
thrade?"
II hope I have, father" says he.
Jack. ahaskey," says the father, you
know what the king has promised IL ye're
not able TO do the three things he puts be-
fore YEP
Eyes, father" says Jack, land I'll do
my best to do them and, as yourself says,
sure the best can do no more"
Well, that evening the father took Jack
up to the castle and when the king came out
he told him this was Jack come home again
afther sarvin' his premiership and he had
the thrade back with him.
why, Jack" Gays the king, "it's well
come We are, in troth, aed mile failthe
ghud, and it's fresh and bloomin' ye're
loookin'-what speed did we come at yer
thrade?"
why, thank we kindly, yer highness,"
says Jack, n can't complain at all; I
| tbink I 6opn ynru fairly for N, tip,a-ot
laist, that was my masther's opinion, and
he's not the worst judge" for, we see,
Jack was modest and didn't care for putin
and BLOWN about himself.
well, it's well for We, Jack" says the
king back to him. for the three thrials
I'll put afore you we will no miss, l as
sure ye."
"Well, yer reverence says Jack. 'Ill
feel honored to do what / can for We.
Would yer highneas be plaised to let me
know the first, for it's as well to get the
unpleasant business over at wanst?"
THE first thing, Jack, you'll have to do
says the king, lis this: Tomorrow morn
ing I'll send out a plow and two horses to
pillow the tattie field at the back of the
hill, and I'll send two men with them,
armed to the teeth; ard you'll have to steal
the two horses out OF the pillow unknownst
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fall on ye without having the horses stolen
you'll undergo the punishment for high
thrayson-you'll be burned, beheaded and
hung; and this time tomorrow l hope to be
feasting with my eyes on your head stuck
on the porch of that gate there. Do you
think will we be able to succeed, Jack ?"
says he, laughing hard.
why, yer highness," says Jack, 'sure I'll
do my best, and the best can do no more
Jack and his father went home, the father
very down-hearted entirely, seem that there
didn't seem to be any chance for poor Jack
at all, and he thought he'd see him burned,
beheaded and hung before his eyes the next
night.
Jack didn't say much, but he went to bed
and slept sound. He was up with the lark
next mornin' and away out through the
fields. He searched the meadows till he
came on a hare asleep, and, catching 1t, he
broke one of its legs and fetched it home
with him. The king sent out the two
horses, according to his promise, to pillow
the tattie field, and he sent with them two
men armed to the teeth, who mad sthrict
ordhers that Jack Brogan would attempt to
stale the horses out OF the plow that
day, but they weren't to allow him on
the peril of their lives, but were to shoot
him If he thried; and IL they allowed him to
stale the horses they would be hung to the
first bush themselves. Well, of course, they
had their eyes about them and plowed and
plowed away till evening, and no sign OF
Jack; so they agreed that Jack had toe
much wit to run the risk of gettin' shot,
that he had given up the thing in despair