The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-11-07

the walks, upset the carriage through his
own awkwardness, and split Dick and his
girl into the sheuch (ditch) and Dick
was so outraged that he lifted his fist, and
knocked down the coachman.
"Well, there is one thing l say said
the coachman, !'and that is that you are
no gentleman. .
Dick only gave him another polthogue
at this, and knocked him down again, and
then forgot all about it. But if he did
forget it, the Lord High Mayor of Dub
lin S daughter didn t. for it ranked in her
mind, and she wondered why it was that
the coachman had told him he was no gen
tleman She took an early opportunity
Of asking the coachman why he said her
intended husband was no gentleman.
because said the coachman, che
struck me with his fist, whereas if he had
been a gentleman it would have been with
the whip he would have struck me. .
One thought borrowed another with her,
till at length she began to have wee doubts
on her mind that, after all, Dick might
not be what he put up to be, at all, at all;
and what with one thing and another, it
it little sleep she got that night and in the
morning she opened her mind on the sub
iect to her father, and asked his advice
regarding what was best to be done,
and the advice he gave was that special
messenger should be sent down to Done
gal, where Dick said his father, Lord
Thorny lived, in order that they might
find whether Lord Thorny was the great
man Dick represented him to be.
And both Of them agreed to this, and
they employed a trusty man, and, before
they sent him off, they swore him on the
Book that he would bring true account
back with him. And then the messenger
set off on swift horse. And when he
was coming near the Donegal country, he
began nqniring if the people knew Lord
Thorny, or could they direct him TO him,
and every one laughed when they heard
this inquiry, and they said surely they did
know him, for who did not know the
Lordy, and they directed him on the road,
though he was still the best part of fifty
miles from him.
And when at length he reached Done
gal town every one was laughing louder
when he inquired for Lord Thorny, and
every one was directing him toward the
Lordy's; and when he reached him sur
prise, you may be sure, was neither small
nor middlin but great, to see an old tum-
BILE down, black looking forge, with no
roof at all; and the Lordy himself was at
his supper when the messenger went in,
for it was now night. His meal consisted
of Indian meal stirabout, and he had it
placed upon the anvil, and he himself was
sitting upon his heels while he supped it.
The messenger pretended that he was
looking to get his horse shod, and the
Lordy told him to wait until he had fin
ished his supper, and he would shoe it.
And he waited along with other men till
the Lordy had finished his supper.
And then Lord Thorny washed his
hands in big stone trough that was in
the forge, and he wiped them on his
breeches, and next he drank big bowl of
black tea.
The messenger got his horse shod by
excuse, and then set out for Dublin post
haste, for he was ordered on peril of his
life to be back there for the wedding
And on the very night before the wedding
he came galloping up to the Lord High
Mayors door Off he jumped, and up
into the room where the Lord High Mayor
and his daughter were waiting on him.
And as this servant was one of those
whom Dick had been giving five and ten
pound notes to, and as he had been look
ing forward to having grand time OF it
under such a master when Dick should
marry, in his heart of hearts he would
have liked to be able to give a grand re-
port of Dick S father, but he was sworn
to the truth. and so. unfortunately, would
have to tell the truth.
The Lord High Mayor and his daugh,
ter welcomed him, and asked him had he
discovered Lord Thorny. He said he had.
"And tell me now,'' said the daugh-
ter of the Lord High Mayor, ''is he as
famous and as far known as his son would
have us believe p
Says the messenger 'When L came
within fifty miles and more of his place,
there was hardly child on the road that
had not Lord Thorny on the tip of his
tongue >
''Well, well, well = said the Lore
High Mayor. ''That is great news sure
ly !!
'But tell me" says the daughter
F.; ''what is his castle like p
: "Oh,'' said the messenger, 81 coule
hardly describe it, for there is no castle il
Dublin, nor in any place have ever been
e that looks anyways like Lord Thorny
castle. -
t Indeed, now,'' says the daughter,
. sbut tell what was the most wonderful
=; thing you noticed about it p
l "Well," says he, "the most wonderful
| thing that [ noticed about it was the roof