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

Corney Higarty, the pensioner, was an
inveterate old bachelor-or, still worse,
a misogynist-himself and had many
sarcastic things to say at the women S
expense When the neighbors gathered
around the fire in his little cabin on win
ter nights, and Toalna Gallagher led off
general assault upon old bachelors,
Conveys biting wit flowed freely in re-
turn. But when his assailants, by dint
of their number and persistence. drove
him back from cover to cover. Corney
unassailable position. and made an effec-
tive stand upon his story of the Par
varted Bachelor
In them days, or whereabouts, when my
gran fathers -gran'father was a
youngster, there was a chap lived in
the neighborhood in Dublin, named
Rody, that the neighbors called Rody
the Bachelor, bekase, like meself, he had
small grandh for the women an people
thought he'd no more marry than he
would give his head for football
Rody was warm an well-to-do, with a
snug farm an a thrig house, milk cows
an'dhry cattle goleor. He was as happy
as a hedge sparta to all seemin', an
lived in aise an contentment with him
self an the whole wurrI Then, when
at wake or wedding, or some othe-
sort iv a spree, the neighbors got at
Rody about why he didn't marry an
take a wife till himself, Rody always
laid down his doctrine to them. - m
as happy he used to say, 'as the Lord
thanks be to HIM can make me.
have PAIGE, grace an content an what
more does a man need? Them takes a
woman takes throuble. an them mar
ries makes worry for themselves. Yez
often enough say, yerselves, No cow, no
care an I say No woman, no Woe If
/ got the best woman in the wurrf she
couldn't like me better nor | like mesef.
So, all things considered, it seems to
me that it's / am the wisest man iv the
lot iv we to keep meself happy when
feel meself So An that was, time an
again, the burden iv Pody the Bach
elor's song.
But, sirs, wonders i'll never cease.
There was slip iv a black-eyed gissach
(girl) wan iv the neighbor'S daughters,
come to milk the cows mornin' an
evenin for Rody wan time his hand
TUX bad with the whttle an he couldn't
milk himself. An Una-she was named
Una-she used to sing. IAN callin
dheas cruite no m-bo. 1.-THE Purity Girl
Milkin' the Cow" to keep the COW quate
while she MIXED her; an Rody would
be standin be the cows head scratchin'
Brawny's neck to keep her Cuate like
wise. But be the time Rody's hand was
better iv the white, he persuaded Una
to continue comm to milk behase that
the cows MIXED better, he found, to q
woman; an Una. without much per-
suasion. consented. An the neighbors
they all sayed, cay, Ay," when they
heerd this. So for the length iv long
summer Una she MIXED away an sung
away, while Rody the Bachelor was
gettin' more silent an thoughtful an
less light-hearted day be day, till at
length it was plain to be seen as the
Hill iv Binban that an caillin dheas
cruite ma m-bo was singin' away the
heart out iv him. So. it didn't by no
means come like a thunder-clap when
the news went roun' that Rody had dis
covered his cows wouldn't give the milk
till any wan but Una. since she had
made them so, an that he decided
he'd have to marry her, so he'd have her
to milk always.
An married they wor, too an had a
mortal great weddin' entirely, at which
poor Rody had to stand his own share
in sconcin' about his suddint change,
him that was SO sore again all women
kind. An in right good part Rody TUX
it all. He sayed there never was no rule
since the wurrl' begun that hadn't an
exception, an his Una was Almost the
only wan exception to the doctrines he
used to lay down.
FIR Pat was wan of them that used to
have the greatest passages with Rody
about, not marryin'. an he was now
helpin, as hard as he could, the neigh
bors to salt him for his suddint change
An is it your belief" says FIR Pat,
that Una'll go as far as you used to
think a woman should afore she'd be
worth takin'-that she likes an will
like We better nor you do yourself?"
My Una," says Rody, 'sartinly goes
that far. That's why l TUX her.