Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-05

E,MSSNy/ way, ireland, and
II -ID-hNS Major Burke's an
ENN-sk85 cestors were of the
1 a IN o II ID e
Burghs, of the Pale. Now the Burkes
and the Kilbrodys did, for at least six
hundred years, regard duelling as an
admirable custom.
Barry's parents emigrated to Canada
soon after Mr.. Parnell began his anti
rent agitation, which deprived the
major of every penny of revenue ex-
cept his half pay as a retired officer of
the British army. They settled down
III Cahoogie because it was little
place, with nothing that the Burkes
called society to put them to expense,
and yet with reasonably good school
for Barry, their only child.
Among the family -.elics were a pair
Of long, old, handled, hint-lock
duelling pistols, which reposed in a
polished mahogany box in the majors
untidy little den. Often he discoursed
of them atfectionately to Barry as the
'Sood ould family pistols" The ma
lor spoke with a delicious brogue.
Faith, the world has althered, Bar
ry," he would sadly say. "Its hun
dred to one you'll never have 4 chance
to show the spirit of the Burkes and
the Kilbrodys. Your fathers sou
would, of coorse, scorn 10 defend his
word except with the weapons of a
gentleman-but you'll never have a
chance, me boy. Sure, your grand
children will have toremember meself
as the last of their ancesthors that
went out with his man."
Had Mr.. Charles Davidge, the
young master OF the one-roomed
Cahoogie grammar school, ever heard
the major discoursing in this way, he
would probably have been more polite
with Barry in the matter of the
pearl-handled penknife. When Mr..
Davidge missed it, the boys were all
IN their places on one side of the
schoolroom, and the girls in theirs on
the other. The time was late in the
forenoon.
Mr.. Davidge was about to call up
the class in Virgil, when he missed
his pearl handled knife. He felt in
his waistcoat side pockets, he slapped
his coat pockets, he searched his
trousers pockets, he lifted the sloping
cover of his desk and looked inside,
he turned over his books, papers,
pencils and pens all in vain. Then
he began to recall his procee lings
during the forenoon
while bn was troo;nO. ~ on tho u,o Ian,' ,
for thn Graal- c,aso tLa nnno,, n "t =
Xenonhon'a ormy to tho .oa9 w.
he was spre II had Loom VII
them had Looon,o - it9 nut
Had Il boon ,,ooI,atod -, A..
Greeks2 The boys Of Coboooo;o Oie aa,,aaI a., 'rJ
We're NOT all ohoye s1s m 1snia;on '0 ''"0o'
r., D d. %'''o s"spl'ion' 1
Greek hnt Mr. Dor;dae @ di5 1Tr 80 10y III
nect Borrv for = mnn,ant m no, NOV ;"dsu9 oa'9
anv nnn;I ~ ,,ant;anIa, --''i p ino'e"' e,
sharp ,biaded knife was zone ' The The
but he did not wish his nnniIs %s0 "a ,os sn. ~
nect bia onao;oionn n MS p"P''' ~ S'S-
"Burke have uon soon oorthi.a g
nv .bondled lnifa ~ 1,no ,e., VI
ino9" Mr. Davidao n,lI ann1.o 'n,s naotn ),
cheerfully.
"No. sir - soid porrr oftou &c..
moments Of reaect;on - ''e' " 'o"
"Did an, of Won Graals ooo u -
INV hand ILL., ~" .1eNa .1'i see 1t II,
inst now9,; '1o ''''0A A'o''' u
81 die. said three vo;ces Of oroo
sHnmnbr Jt's varv stron%o, M, Nj
any of Won notice What diJ Viii it9,,
No one answered Perhons T Rarrv m
was the only nerson in tbe raon, ',,L, J
/ had not already surmisod 4ho+ Srr