The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-15

ment, which is the ~sorriest of all bait for a
man who would catch a woman.
Its loikin' that young man yell be
doin'." said Mrs. O'Day one morning when,
noting the direction and expression of her
daughters eyes, she saw Lie approaching
only till he spakes. mother DEAR" was
the reply. 'an' that won't be long. He's
fine appearin', an good, I'm told, but when
he opens his mouth I'm that set agin him
that If 1 was a man I'd AS the SEN
tence was not concluded Mrs. O'Day said:
lover in Oireland Obey cure his COM
plant wild a club, dhat Obey do"
"Mornin', Connie" said Lie, with his
heart in his eyes. 81 heard somethin' all
people believe the sun dances on Easter
mornin'."
"Dhat it does. for Ofve seen it." said
Mrs. O'Day with a voice that would have
been sufficient warning to any discreet
young man who was In love with the
speakers daughter.
There. Misther Riggin," exclaimed Con-
ME, her face aglow with faith in her moth
er's experience. $50 We see it's true"
Any man in possession of his senses
would hay dropped the subject at once.
but Lie was possessed by a legion of de-
mons In the shape of arguments deduced
from astronomical facts. so he said:
"Oh, sayi The sun couldn't dance with
out settin' the hull universe a-shakin'."
AN PLAT do We know about tia man
dat's niver been I'm Oireland?" asked Mrs.
O'Day.
Lie smiled pityingly, and with an air Of
superiority, as he answered:
Its the same old sun everywhere. an I
guess he couldn't drop business an go TO
dancin'-on a Sunday, too-without folks
in evry country KNOWN about it."
Mrs. O'Day regarded him contemptuously
as she said:
Eye guess. do We? Well. OF know. An
know, too, dhat yer fut. dhat we've put on
dhat box, is loike to crush the loife out av
me darlin' shamrock. Connie, it's tonne
for we TO bring up some praties. an for me
to get back to me wurruk; so good mornin'
to We, Misther Guesser."
But L can prove to you" 1t was USE
less to say more. for the cabin door closed
noisily, and from behind it came loudly
the assertion, "Oi've me opinion av a man
dhat wouldn't have me behave In me own
oyesight."
Mother. DEAR suggested Connie. gently,
maybe the sun do be quieter over here, so
far away from its home"
Wen see. phase heaven; we'll see, OF
hope was the reply. "Back in the States
the Cashier mornin's were dhat cloudy
dhat dhere were no sun at all, at ALL"
Lie sauntered home in a fit of humilia-
ton. Never before had Connie looked pref
tier; never before had a door been closed
in his face. His looks disclosed the conGi-
ton of his mind, so the minister. meeting
him accidentally. thought him a fit subject
for religious exhortation and instruction.
Lie listened meekly, and admitted on gen.
eral principles that he was a great sinner,
likewise a great fool, so the minister added
practical advice to religious counsel by bid
ding the young man beware of his tongue,
and be more willing to learn tina to teach.
Lie promised that he would do so; he
was so much in earnest that he did not
provoke a single argument in the week that
followed. and he worked an entire day
without charge for Dennis O'Day, Comics
father, for the avowed purpose of learning
practically the Irish and only true way of
planting potatoes. He listened so well and
talked so little. yet so much to the point,
that at night Dennis said to his wife and
daughter:
"Oi don't dhink much av woman's con-
safes about men. Dhat Loije Riggin is the
foinest young man Owe met since OF left
dhe ould country. He don't dhrink, nor
yet gamble. an he wurruks loike an OK,
an he takes dhe advoice av dhem dhat's
Al1or Ihon he. 49, 49, - a. -
by, too, dhat he has"
but father DEAR" said Connie. 'he don't
behave that the sun dances on Cashier
mornin'."
"Oi'm drinking he's man enough to be-
lave it If he can be tould now. OF didn't
behave 1t mesilf till Oh was most his age.
an was hilped to do it."
And who was it that helped ye?"
Dennis knocked the ashes from his pipe.
winked and replied:
ASK yer modher."
"Ah. g'lang wild ye!" said Mrs. O'Day.
Again O'Day winked; he chuckled: then
he pinched his wife's ear and brushed her
| cheek with his own.
No church bells announced the dawn of
Easter to the people of Lost Rock, for
there was none in the village, but before
the last star had paled some of the South
ern boys fired guns. as had been their Gus
tom in their native State, and the Germans.
aroused by the noise. hurried from house
TO house. offering Easter greetings. women
placed their pots and boxes of Towering
plants at the eastern sides of their houses
TO catch the first rays of the sun. the lit
tie girls of all nationalities began to COM
pare their colored Easter eggs. and their
brothers began to fight eggs" The sound
OF singing escaped from many open doors,
and Black Ben. perched upon his woodpile.
fddled brilliantly at something which he
declared was 'de jinnywine ole Yeaster
ant'em."
The young minister walked slowly past
all the houses. Offering such greetings as
seemed appropriate to the various parts Of
the human motley. but the people took
more from his countenance than from his
lips, for he was filled with the spirit of the
day, and he appeared as brave and exult-
ant as If he were a young prince. instead
of a shabbily dressed man who had no per-
| maneut abode and was without a dollar I'm