The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24

"whew -ew-ew!" says FIR Pat. that
way
"Fr Pat" says Rody, "ye may whistle
or do as We plaise, but it's So"
Fr Pat looked hard at Rody for a
minute, to see was he rally so far COMO
entirely as to believe that. AN, Rody,"
says he, do ye rally believe it?"
May I niver ait the bread in corn if
amn't sartin iv what / say says Rody
"Ye're a dale foolisher man than
thought ye, says FIR Pat. Would We
mind putin a little bait (beD on it
that ven be in the same opinion this
day twel month";
"I'll bait ye," says Rody "my spot
ted springer again your oul' gray mare
an that's long odds--that me opinion
isn't adhered this day twel' month
Done" says Err. Pat. AN you,
boys, are all witnesses iv this. F"
Rody promised FIR Pat faithfully to
keep tho transaction a deep saicret
from Una. An so he did. Rody was in
the hight iv good humor over it, for
that he felt so sartin iv Una's love for
him, an so sartin. too, that it would
last. as it was not for wan twei month
Or IS. but for SIS twel' months if God 'dd
only spare them that long.
An sure enough, the second month
they wor married Una sartinly seemed
to be fonder iv Rody than she was the
first: an the month after she was
fonder iv him than the other two put
together. An so it went on month after
month. Una seemingly gettin' fonder iv
Rody an Rody prouder iv Una every
new da-- that come. An every time
Rody ud meet FIR Pat he'd have a hearty
laugh at the priest; an "Fr Pat he'd
say, Il hope we're givin' my gray mare
all the attention we should "Och, niver
mind-niver mind, Rody," FIR Pat I'D say,
1.-THE year isn't up yet. It's yerself had
better take good care iv my spotted
springer; mind. I'm warnin' ye." But,
ach! Rody would break into his hearty
laugh at the foolishness iv the priest.
Well, the twel month seemed long
passin' TO Rody till he'd humiliate FIR
Pat But the longest iv times II pass
some time, an the longest iv stories ii
sometime have an end An Rody's year,
too wore round at last till it come to
the last day " it. An on that very
evenin' Rody met FIR Pat at a neighbors
funeral.
"Well?' says Rody.
"Well?" says FIR Pat.
what time will / be sendin a garsun
over for the mare the morra?" says Rody.
"Ah-ha!" says the priest, Il see it's
always too sure. too loose with you,
Rody 1t isn't - o'clock the mora yet.
Good look to your wit. your rever-
enee," says Rody. "Yere the dhrownd-
in man catching at very thin sthraw.
.tRody McGinn," says FIR Pat, "there
was a gintleman kilt another man in
anger some days ago--kilt himg dead.
An that gintleman is now undher SEN
tence iv death-to be hung outside Dub
lin jail the mora mornn' at bre' kwust
time
"Well?" says Rody.
We'll" says the priest, this is
great gintleman entirely, an he has adj
vart-ist all over the country that he'll
give five hundred poun' to any man that
ill act as substitute for him. an get
hung in his place.
"Well?" says Rody.
every WE'LL" says Father Pat, we're
now goin' to put Una to the final test
whether or not she likes you better nor
/ you like yerself. You're to propose to
get hung in this gentlemans place, so
| as to get the $500 for Una-an then,
We'll see what we'll see.''
Ella, ha! ha" laughted Rody. eye
| poor foolish Father Pat, We! No, nor
| If it was fifty times five hundred she
would get by it. Una wouldn't listen
for wan minute to such purposal."
Never mnd-never mind" says Faith
er Pat says he, smilin' such a confident
smile as angered Rody out an out. 'Nev-
er mind" says he, you do as yere bid
| an Wen see what we'll see"
'I'll make the purposal," says Rody,
"an' yer reverence II be responsible if
| Una faints or dies iv heart disease"
"I'll be responsible" says Father Pat,
| says he, laughn', 'if Una faints or
| dies iv heart dsaise; an I'll put over
| her a monument higher nor the church
| steeple an I'll inscribe it, Here lies
| the strangest woman ever lived--a woman
who loved her man better nor he loved
| himself