The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-06

were driven-driven into the mountain
wildernesses. So for paltry wage, this
poor boy tills for a stranger the soil that
should be his. Life here IS not the pleas
ure II was in the mountain home. To the
ScOtCh-Irish farmers existence is very
serious matter. He has his boys astir at
o'clock in the morning, and, with the
exception OF very short rest for meals,
works them till just before retiring at
night. Except for attending the cattle
and the horses. watering and feeding
them, the boy has Sunday for a free day
but during the remainder of the week he
has not one free half hour from 4 o'clock
in the morning till bedtime, which, in
these Scotch districts, is from s o'clock
till o'clock in the evening. At home the
boy went TO bed at IL or u o'clock His
mistress allows him plenty of food-of
the cOmmonest quality. He eats at the
table with his master, who sometimes
the boys poor mountain neighbOrs at
home.
Another thing that jars upon the Irish
lad is that there is sometimes a want of
cleanliness-what he calls "a roughness''
about the serving of food, to which he
was unused at home.
This bowl is ma over clane o. the out
side" said one of these nistresses to her
mountain boy, as she handed him a bowl
of tea. but all make my own O. YOU
'IrOth, then ma am, said he. as he
reached for dish clout ano wiped IL
I'D thank ye to make stranger of
me"
AS it generally pays better to give the
buttermilk to the calves ana the pigs than
to kitchen" ones meal with it, the hired
boy sometimes nnds himself set down TO
fine table of potatoes without any drink
or cOndiment. On one such occasion the
sarcastic boy said:
Master, / don't see any wee 'tattieS
here-let me have SOme2"
For why do We want wee praties. boy?'
Because me mother used 10 tell me
that in the hard times they found it a
grand thing entirely to kitchen the wee
wan to the big wan"
All Irish Eyes Turn TO America.
When the boys come home many and
droll are the tales they tell of their late
masters household. And after they have
earned enough money TO help their father.
ana 10 put few pounds. over and above
In their own pockets. they leave the big
farmers for good and prepare 10 set out
for America, that land to which all Irish
eyes turn.
There are parts. of our Countrywide very
pOoreSt-from which every able bodied boy
and man migrates early in June to win
the harvest in the Scottish lowlands. With
his little red bundle and his sickle each
joins a band bound for the ports of Derry
They travel on foot the thirty or forty
irish m1les-almOst always accomplishing
the journey in one day. After some
months they tramp back again into their
own valley, brown, hale, happy and
wealthy. with the wealth of 500 $40 and
even sometimes $40-mOre than enough to
pay the rent. and quite early enough TO
begin late harvest of their own.
though the winter is the time of Brian's
ease and amuSement-when he attends the
nightly dance or rattle wedding. christen-
ing or spree, or joins the story telling
circle a neighbOr's freSide-he does
not negl his sports around the summer
his foo Ill, his "eaman'-shinny-a
hunttng-hares and rabbits-and his court
ing-all which he enjoys to the fullest in
the glorious, long and sunny Sunday even
ingS- that seem to fall with Gods benson