The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-15
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step when you were up in the air?''
asked one of the crowd that had
gathered around the table listening to
Dennis tale of woe.
"Oi stepped on wan iv the fince rails
that were flying all around me-
retorted Dennis. Then some philan-
thropist in the crowd remarked that
even if congress refused to irrigate the
arid lands of the west, we could have
no valid reason to refuse to irrigate at
his expense. This magnanimous senti-
ment met the approval of all present.
and the smile on the face of the man
with the apron assumed gigantic pro-
portions. When the irrigating process
had been properly discussed, and had
been illustrated by many practical tests,
made on the spot, we all sat down
again, and Dennis took up the thread
of his story:
Gentlemen" he said, "Oi niver
thought Oi should lubricate me throat
agin, whin Oh waz oop in the coyclone.
Vance it took me near oop to hiven"-
"Why didn't you jump in, Dennis
You'll never have such another
chance" This interruption came from
a small man with a small mind, who
held his head high and wore a sickIy
moustache and perpetual sneer as
facial adornment.
aye spalpeen," retorted Dennis,
"Orll be in Abrahim's bosom whin yell
be down in the place where they roast
other things besoides paynuts. Oiwuz
near hivin, but the coyclone took me
down agin, an on the way down it took
pocketbook out iv me inside pocket,
that had fourty-sivin dollars an twinty
cints in it, all in tin dollar bills, an
scattered the bills over the prairie,
barrin' wan, which wuz foive dollar
gowld pace, that Oi had sold oop in the
Garner iv me silk handkerchief. It's
divil clint Oi'll iver see iv that muney
agin. Sure, warkin' man has no
chance whin aven the iliments turn
agin him, an rob him iv his harrud-
earned wages. Thin the coyclone took
me over a pool iv dirthy wather, an
Oi sez to mesilf, sez Oi, yer name is
Dinnis, but iv We drhop in that pond
yer name'l be mud There wuz a
Roosian huntin' snoipes be the pond,
an he must hiv thought Oi wuz a
strhange birrud, for he foired load iv
shot into me, which, be the intervintion
iv the saints, all missed me, barrin' wan
that wint through me lift ear.
"Oi wuZ now near the Rock Oiland
thrack, an the coyclone wuz aither
LAWN me behoind or wuz doyin' an
aisy death, for Oh could feel mesilf
sinkin' to the ground, an Oh landed all
in hape on top iv fiat car on the
Rock Oiland thrain goin' west, that OF
mintioned in the beginnin' iv me
sthory. The frunt brakeman wnz a
Dootchman, Yakob Eselmeir be name,
an whin he saw me comin' through
the air he thought Oh wuZ a thramp,
maxim a fyin' jump for his thfain, wild
the intintion iv stalin' a roide; an be-
fore Oi had tonne to pick oop what the
coyclone had lift iv me he wnz on top
iv me, givin' me sooch batin' wild his
club that Oi wished Oh wuz back in the
coyclone. 'Ye scounthrel,' sez Oi, do
yez name to murther me? Don't ye
know Dinnis Malowney whin ye see
himY 'Ahp sez he, 'wuz dot you,
Dennis? taught you wuz tramp
So he lifted me oop, an whin we got to
M, where the st. Paul thrain wuz
soide thracked for the aist bound tx
press, he carried me over to the caboose
iv me own thrain, where the byes took
care iv me-"
"Did the cyclone demolish any
houses or barns, Dennis?" I ventured
to ask, when I perceived his story was
about finished. "Faith," said Dennis,
aOi didn't hiy toime to look"