The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-15
'Seu1nas MacManus'
Story Of Irish Magic

Story Of Irish Magic
Lazy Jack and the Miser's Hoard. Exper-
ixnce Of Good Nstured Simpleton Who
Stumbled on Great Golden Luck.
Chicago News: Once there was a
widow and she had one son, called
Jack, a very, very lazy fellow and
good for nothing and fool.
When he had grown to be young
man his mother one day sent him to
the town to get needle for her.
When Jack went to the town and
bought the needle he saw passing
cart of hay, which was going as far
as his mothers house, so he said to
himself: That's fine and easy way
of getting home the needle" and he
stuck the needle into the cart of hay.
When he reached home his mother
asked him where the needle was and
and began to look for it And If Jack
had been looking from that day to
this of course he would not get the
needle.
His mother gave him a scolding and
q good, sound thrashing, and told him
he was always fool, and would never
be anything else than fool to think
"Oh, MOTHER" says he, how should
carry it?''
you should have put it inside the
breast of your coat" she told him.
| All right" says Jack, says he,
you'll never find me making mis-
take more, and after this you'll never
| find me a fool more"
Next day his mother had men work
| ing, and had no butter for their din
ner, so she sent him into the town to
buy butter.
| Jack went in, bought the butter and
when he got it he put it inside the
breast of his coat and buttoned up his
coat
And when preached him, says his
mother: Jack" says she. where's
the butter?"
| Jack Did as He Was Bid.
ooh, mother" said he, Il didn't
know how to carry the needle yester-
| day and you said was a fool; but
| I'm not fool today. l put it just
where you told me-inside the breast
| of my coat" And he opened his coat
and showed where the butter had melt
ed and run down all over his clothes.
His mother got into a terrible rage
and scolded him and thrashed him
soundlv.
"oh, mother" saws he. how should
/ have brought it?'
!
| it in a docken leaf"
| "All right, mother" says Jack, says
| he after this you'll never find me a
fool more"
Next morning his mother wanted
milk for her breakfast, and she sent
Jack into the town to buy milk and
when Jack got the milk he put into
docken leaf and started for home.
But Jack had not gone far until he
had not two spoonfuls of milk left in
! the docken leaf and when he reached
home there was only just the track of
the milk on the leaf
Says his mother to Jack, says she:
"Where's the milk sentsyo for?"
"Oh mother" says Jack, says he: II
did as you told me yesterday, and I
put it in the docken leaf" says he,
/ IAN it's all run away on me-"
His mother flew into wild rage and
again she thrashed poor Jack till she
almost thrashed the life out of him,
and said he was always a fool, and he
would never be anything else but a
fool. Don't he know that he should
have carried it in can?
Turned Him Out o. Doors.
His mother had lot of sheep and
they were very hard to mind, SO she
said she must have a dog to watch
them and sent off Jack to bring her
home sheep dog.
Jack went away and when he got the
sheep dog he got the loan of little
can and he tried to put the sheep dog
into the can but he could not we'll get
| 1t in for the dog always bounded out
| again. So Jack killed the dog and
stuffed him down in the can and start
| ed for home to his mother and emptied
| out the dog at the door.
When his mother saw this she flew
tr,k =
| and she thrashed him very soundly,
and told him he was always a fool
and would never be anything else than
q fool.
And what should have done,
| mother?" says he.
] well, you know, you fool you," says
his mother, says she, that you should
have led 1t home by a string"
"All right, says Jack, says he,
latter this you'll never find me fool
more.''
Very soon after his mother sent Jack
into the town to buy mutton.
Jack first got good long string, and
when he got the mutton re tied the
i mutton to the string and started for
home drawing the mutton after him.
4 And when his mother saw him COM
ing up to the door drawing the mutton
this way she went out to meet him and
scolded him and thrashed him as she
had never scolded and thrashed him
before, and she said: You were al
/, ways e fool and YOUTH never be any
thing else but a fool and I'll not have
you about my family
j So she turned poor Jack out and sent
him away never to come back.
Receives Bag OF Guineas.
4 So my poor Jack took of his own
coat and put 1t on the statue, and as