, 1905-02-08

6T lanu. one OF them mad as good a
rlaim to it as the other, and the claims
of all of them were so equal that none
of the judges eyer they went before
could decide in favor of one more than
the other.
At length they went to one judge
who was very wise indeed and had IA
stated his case to him.
He sat on the bench and heard Co
nails case and Donals case and Taig's
case all through with very great pa
thence.
When the three of them had finished
he said he would take a day and a
night to think it all over, and on the
day after When they were all called
into court again the judge said that
he had weighed the evidence on all
sides with all the deliberation it was
possible to give it, and he decided that
II of them hadn't the shadow of a
shade of a claim more than the other,
SO that he found himself facing the
greatest puzzle he had ever faced in
his life.
But" says he, mo puzzle puzzles
me long. I'll very soon decide which
of you will get the field. You seem to
me to be three pretty lazy looking fell
lows, and I'll give the field to which
ever of the three of you is the lazi-
est"
"Well, at that rate" says Conal, its
me gets the field, for I'm the LATEST
man of the lot"
"How lazy are your says the judge.
"Well," says Conal, IF | was lying
in the middle of the road and there
was a regiment of troopers coming
galloping down it, I'd M let them
ride over me thar take the bother of
getting up and going to the II side
well, WE'LL" says the judge, says he,
'you are a lazy man surely, and |
doubt if Donal or Taig can be as lazy
as that"
"Oh, faith,' says Donal, Pm just
every bit as lazy"
Are your" says the judge. "How la
zy are your
WELL" says Donal, IF l was sitting
right close to Il big fire and you piled
on it all the turf in a town and n
all the wood in ii barony, sooner than
have to move I'd sit there till the boil
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bones"
"Well,' says the judge, you're a
pretty lazy man, Donal, and doubt If
Taig is as lazy as either of YOU
Indeed, then," says Taig, "Tm every
bit as lazy"
"How can that be?' says the judge.
"Well,' says Taig, 'if l was lying
on the broad of my back in the middle
of the floor and looking up at the raft
ers, and if SCOT drops were falling as
thick as h%ailstones from the rafters in
to my open eye, l would let them drop
there for the length of the Ilee-long day
sooner than have the bother of closing
the eye"
"Well,' says the judge, that's very
wonderful entirely and says he, I'm
in as great Il quandary as before, for
see you're the three LATEST men that
ever were known since the world be-
gan, and which of you is the LATEST it
certainly beats me to say.
"Oh, I'll tell you what I'll do says
the judge. I'll give the field to the
oldest nan of you
'Then," says Conal, its me gets the
field"
How is that?" says the judge. "How
old are your
well, I'm that old" says Conal,
that when | was twenty-one years of
age l got "a shipload of avis and never
lost MOI broke one of them. | wore
out the last OF them yesterday mendins
my Shoes
well, WE'LL" says the judge, says
he, you're surely an old man, and l
doubt very much that Donal and Taig
can touch up to you.'
Cant l." says Donal. Take care
of that"
"Why," said the judge, chow old are
you?"
"When l was twenty-one years Of
age" says Donal, Il got a shipload of
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