The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-12-25


down with some establishment upon
the sharp little freckled visage that
was upturned as he replied; 81 am Mr..
Kane, my boy. What do you want with
me?"
''Sure, I'll be tellin' ye, but it's Nigh
ty glad l am to see you, sir. Shake.
then! I'm namesake of yours, though
belize you're not Known it and I'm
glad that l favor you, now that I've
set me two eyes on ye."
Favor me, indeed, you young scare
crow
"On the inside, l name, and I'd be
glad if it was on the outside, for it's a
mighty fne-lookin' gentleman ye are,
then. They do be tellin' me you have
the rintin' of a-many of the houses here
about, and it's to rint the small place
at the foot of the hill I'd be askin' I'll
pay you as much as 50 cents a week for
it. and worruk out the rint if you say
it's bargain
Mr.. Kane was growing interested.
The small boy had brisk, business way
with him, quite out of proportion to
his size, which was that of an average
l0-yearOld
at is little out of the usual line to
take work in return"
"Oh, it will be equally satisfactory if
We pay me i'll cash, then, Mr.. Kane, sir,
and it's a good bargain yell have, wild
me mother along wild me, and she
that aiger to be at rest wanst more.
IT'S the PLACED woman she'll be that
alrs settled SO we'll"
But hold on!'' said Mr.. Kane. 81
like to know something about my ten
ants. What security can you give me
that | shall find you responsible"
fl,ot 7 1,0p1 n1
after you, didn't l? It's Peter Tidmore
Kane Mulligan I am, and me mother
says yell be sure to mind Biddy Moran
that was cook to We wanst. But I'm
It'd for short. Well move in the day,
and I'll just come up for me orders in
the mornin' - and It'd walked away as
contentedly as if he carried a signed
lease in his pocket.
"Biddy Moran? To be sure. She
worked for us one summer dozen or
more years ago." said Mrs. Kane, when
her husband appealed to her for contir-
nation of the boys story. OF much
of cook, very green and little queer,
as | remember her. I'm afraid they'll
be load on your hands, Tidmore."
''Well the old shell can't be much
worse with them in it than standing
empty and FL warn them out if they
pIONt d uttlSdl1CC iO UOy WILL SCU
along if he favorS me 'on the inside, as
he says" Mr.. Kane laughed in recollec-
ton of the sharp, little, uncouth figure
as contrasted with his own well-favored
person.
Sure enough, the first sight that
greeted Mr. Kane the next morning
was It'd, keenly examining his garden
beds, shaking his head portentously
over peoples and lilies, and getting
down on his knees to sniff at the tomato
vines, with curious uncertainty, not
to say contempt, that sent the gardens
owner hurrying down to prevent any
possible catastrophe.
Its a fine lot of weeds we've saved
up for me, SIR lid greeted him brightly,
but I'm feared they've run over the
plants intirely. Or it is wild garden
you do be having here? Me mother
tells me that you grow things small in
this state, and ye do it uncommon we'll,
should say. Belize it has to be TUX
out of you that way for the big hearts
we've got" with respectful Difference
that d sarmed his employers wrath.
''Why, you young jackanapes, where
have you seen anything finer that you
should be turning up your nose at my
garden, pray
Fax think it wor in California;"
haZarded lid, as if he were drawing his
recollectionS from some deep we'll of
memory. The tomatuses growed on
vines as high as the house, l mind, and
there were men up on step-ladders
pickin them, and the lilies and the
vi'lets and the peoples all run wild in
the fields, they did, and the roses We're
like to smother the house, and the COO
cumbers were as long as | am. and Il
]o1n hat ha
country, if its gardenin ye're after"
Il wonder you left it, remarked Mr.
Kane, sarcastically.
I'D wonder that mesilf, if there wor
airy show for dacint Americans out
there admitted It'd. "The pigtails and
the greasers have it all their own way
It's quare how there's something form
inst wan most iverywheres in the West
In Nebrasky it wor the 'hoppers, and in
Kansas the drought. Up in Washing
ton it aither rained all the time or the
chinook blasted things, and down in
Texas there wor the cattle every which
way. 1t do be good to get home to the
states" and lid drew long breath of
satisfaction. "But this isn't worruk at
all, and if yen put me to it, I'll be
diggin' in
Mr.. Kane found the boy eager to
and although he made some blunders,
by the end of the week he had won the
favor of the household, and was allowed
to make himself useful about the place
IN very much his own way. This some
times resulted in queer turns of fancy,
according to the Eastern view of things,
as when he was found in the early
morning sweeping up grasshoppers from
the lawn to feed the fowls, and care
fully treasuring pocketfuls of gravel
while he was still new to the situation
''Sure it wor the lashing of 'hoppers'
we had out on tie perraries, but niver,
stone to the size of pea there. Ye
have them betther distributed here, and
it's fine country, though the things
do grow SMALL he decided, approving
ly, when the waste of his efforts was
pointed out to hin.
1t would appear that the Mulligans
had drifted all over the West in an aim
less fashion, "saking health and bet
therment," as It'd expressed it, till the
death of the father left his mother free
to return 'for the making of me-" he
confided to Mr.. Kane.
"Sure, lad nades to be looking up to
good man, me mother says, and it's a
pou-or of t,aobip' I,II pado RI cnmo !, N