The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-07


the English lads off in fresh kinks. An
when they rarnt from Misther OMara
that he was egg merchant from the
County Maith, an that he had big prac-
tice shootin' crows an pigeons, they went
outside the house in reliefs to aise them
selves OF all the laughter was weighin'
their stomachs, an which they didn't
want to laugh out until his face.
well, OMara, he wished to the Lord
he was safely through with his shoot,
an. anyhow-an he didn't care how soon
he'd be finished, now that the dhread of
that Poacher was hangin like a rotten
roof tree over him.
"I'll tell you, our fela.' says they at
last, If We don't mind we'll give We a few
days, an lower every wing on the lam
for We. Faith, OMara jumped at it.
Upon my word siz he, I'll not aisily
forget ii II We do 1t was only an exthra
bit of sport, come chape, to them, an
they agreed, with heart an a half
an tout him. moreover, that he could
afterwards, if he choose, come an
amuse himself gettin' in the way of their
guns, on their shootn's though they
couldn't promise him neither pigeons nor
crows, they wor Altered. O'Mara himself
joined them in the laugh at this, for he
was in purity good humour now he seen
he'd have but little to dhread from the
Red Poacher.
Still he didn't slacken wan bit in his
watchfulness. He arranged with the po-
lis, that, every day the English lads 'ud
be helpin him on Meenavalla they'd
have to do their 'pathroiin' upon the
lands of the College chaps, lest the Red
Poacher would step in. on the grand OPP
portunity, an not laive a kickin' thing
upon their grounds. But, in all cases he
ordhered, as afore, that two polls should
stay day an night by his own place, an
ait an dhrink in his own house.
He likewise planned that me an his
own two men should take the hampers of
fowl nightly Until Glenties. to the Rail-
way Station, an have them shipped. He'd
lend me an his men, an his conveyance
also to the English chaps to carry in
theirs, further on; an they could, for
safety's sake, add one or two of their men
to the contingent From all the Stories
SEE her. I'm tould of the Red Poacher, we
can't be too cautious. Faith, yer right
says the College chaps winkin the wan at
the other.
THE very mkt mornin' the whole six
Of them, with three of their man. an
OMara an wan Of his men, an meself,
was on Meenavalla bangin' away like a
rajiment of Jarmins in the war. They wor
all purity fair shots, the College chaps;
an Misther OMara himself SEEM that
crows, didn't do at all so badly. an give
the bucks a deal less laughin' than they
expected; an odd time he conthrived to
get wan of the lads right in the line of
| his fire, which always give five of them
a hearty laugh of course; but generally
he went wan betther nor the man who
could fire at a mouse an hit a mountain.
"Afther the dozen of us were on the
lam three days we might catch all the
a. left win hU IN calf
their tails. Every evenin', too, meself an
| the rest of the escort TUX off the days
| baggin', for the Glenties railway station.
| An its meself was noways sorry to go
| the same journey, bekase Dan (wan of
| O'Maras mem was the best sowl in the
| wurrf, an niver let us pass Jimmy Kin
ny's public house without we'd go in an
| wet our whistle. An he'd give us two or
| three drinks, no less, afore he'd let US
out. OMara's other man, Tarance, was a
grumpy. growln', good-for- nothin' dog-in-
| the-msnger kind of divil that wouldn't
AK We had we mouth on We If We thrav-
| eled with him from Cork to Christmas
en- begrudged SEEM Dan thraitin', more
over. He'd not go Until Jimmy Kinny's
with us, whether we stayed minute )r
an hour, but 'ud remain danglin' his
| heels over the baskets of game an count
in the stars to keep himself warm till
us in to see II Jimmy Kinny was still
alive on our way back Them was pleas
ant evenings, / tell you.
AN for ten days this kind Of thing
went on. Bekase OMAR TUX meself an
his own two men to help to weed the
game out of the three shootin's of the
College chaps. An we had always wan
or two, or maybe three OF their men with
us be way of escort to Glenties every
evenin', an Dan. who must have laid
hans on leprechaun, he had so much
money, ever an always halted the fun
eral at Jimmy Kinny's till we'd 60 in
an stake our thirsts.
''O'Mara, when he had four or five DAYS
practice, come to handle a gun like a
man was intended to become good
shooter; an there was no more talkin'
Of pigeons an crows. for he run the Eng-
fish lads purity close. What the lads
used to enjoy, though, was, that wanst
O'Mara got his own ham shot an the
game gone safely off, he quickly lost all
terror OF the Red Poacher. an hadn't the
ghost of another curse left in his liver
for that scoundhril. II didn't seem to
give him wan bit OF consarn whether the
red fella I'D come in an carry OFF every
wing on his neighbours lan's. or not
an so they upcasted till him, bantherin'
och. we'll, he'd say, ITS each man cry
when his own cows sick. But, for that
part sorra much consarn did the Red
Poaoher give any of the lads, especially
when they seen he didn't turn up durin
the zrst four or five days. An they were
more nor half sorry he didn't. an give
o'Mara good round mouthfu or two OF
curses for bein' so deuced purtikler, with
his polls pathrols an polls guards. An
there was small doubt how the Red
Poacher would "a been likely to have
gone 10 work, IL he had ventured on the
Ian. an how they'd have nonplussed him
an got hold OF him, an they they'd have
larked him, an played him like a cat
might mouse, afore marchin' him into
ArdhaN polls barracks with a yard OF
rope decoratin' his neck They would
have had the dickenses own gay time
with the buck. there was no manner of
doubt, II he'd only been foolhardy enough
10 let his shadow fall on a daisy on wan
OF their lands But they wor all agreed
an Misther O'Mara with thcm-that the
red rascal had method In his madness
an II he was within a big radius OF
them he had TUX purtigler good care TO
lie very low an sing very, very small
well. on tho last night OF the shootin'
we had a regular big jollihcatlon. oil
hands Of Us, ! tell ye. An poor devil
the Red Poacher would have found his
ears hurnin' n he had been within any
sort OF reasonable distance OF us-besase.
there's no doubt OF Il we joked a fair
share q this expense. An small blame
10 us. Gceln' he made such an impudeniiy
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