Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

many simple-minded men and
women in the evening, Patrick
Doolan, the foreman of the gas-works, IF
had created a salon by his lberahty
of spirit and tolerance of opinion;
so one pleasant evening Judy Callahan said:
Mr. Doolan, tell us about how Rose Kelly
got her first pair of shoes
And Pat began
It's twenty years ago this night since
| saw Rose Kelly standin on the shore of
Costello Bay peerin' into the black night
to see could she get one more look at Roger
Costello for she was sore Altered she had
sent him to his death. Rose was tall and
dark: for she had Spanish blood in her veins
from the Armada, and her black hair
blown by the wind, wrapped her like a
blanket She was terrible strong; but never
a taste did Rose get of a juicy mutton-chop
or a tenderloin of beef Faith! it all went
to pay the rent that grim monster.
Her hair was the only hat she WORE
and on her feet she had pampooties, made
of raw cows hide, with the hair on the
outside, and tied across her arched instep.
with a piece of fish-line.
One day in the summer a party of
tourists visited the Island Of Costello, and
Rose saw for the first time in her life the
iligant little shoes the 1cdies WORE with the
red and blue ribbons on the buckles of them
and the high heels of them. One of the
ledies measured her foot and told her that
if she ever became rich enough to own
three dollars, the price of a pair of high
heeled shoes, she must buy pair of number
six DIS, as that was the size that would
fit her feet. After the tourists went away
Rose gave her lover Roger Costello no
peace until he promised to get her pair
of ledy's shoes.
Now, Roger was a fisherman. But the
summer when the tourists visited the
island was poor one for fishing and twas
not till September that Roger, by pinchin'
economy, saved money enough to buy
the shoes.
The night when Roger made up his mind
to 90 across the bay after them was dark
and lowery; but the smell of the salt in the
breath of the sea reused the courage in
his heart and he made an oath to cross
over to Arran, fifteen miles away, to buy
the shoes for Rose from the Widow Cassidy.
But when he told Rose that he was
goin she made up her mind that he shouldn't
go, shoes or no shoes; but the more she talk
more he made up his mind to go and nOthin
stop him. Rose was Altered that if he Wen
never come back to her, for she knew we'll the
of the Bay of Galway in a gale. When she
that all her blarney was no use, she sent her /
across Great Mans Bay to tell the police ;
that her lover was goin' across to Arran with
of poteen, and for them to arrest him so Il
couldn't go. She thought twas better for Re-
be fined forty shillins than to lose his life
when the twilight was fa1lin she went with RI
the shore and helped him to ballast his c
with stones.
a currach is boat with ash ribs covere
canvas. 1t is about fifteen feet long thrc
wide and two feet deep. a fine sea-boat a c
is for rowin', but poor sailor, for the r'aso
she has no keel Six of the police came after
in life-boat. Roger saw them comm and
his boat into the water, with Rose up to her
in the brine hangin' to his coat-tails and CT
"'Oh, come back, aIIanaH Never mind tn
shoesl'
But Roger threw an arm around her and