The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-12-27
PADH MULLEN'S
NANCY
By sEUMAs MscMANUs
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Copyright. by Joseph b. Bowles.)

ihVuiiNus
What" exclaimed the Bummadier.
do ye name to tell me wan o. ye
never heerd tell of Padh Mullen's
Nancy"
Och! the sorra syllable"
Well. ye see, Padh. he lived all
alone with his oul' mother an his wan
sister \ brave. comfortable farm an
a warm house an a full wan. in throth
they had. An small wondher for oul'
Sheelah Mullen. Padhs mother. was
the woman knew how. when she got
her fist on a penny to hour It; an,
moreover. then to make that penny
go as far as another woman's thrup.
pence. AS regards their attn and
dhrinkin'. ii was Lent all the year
round with them. An she brought up
her son and daughter to the PATTERNS
of herself Nnithcr of them liver Joined
in a divarsion. or coortCd like young
sters will. The oul' mother was par.
tikerly casious of Padh in His regards.
for she thought every girl squinted
at her doore had designs on him.
Poor Padh poor caddy,' she
would say--an' the poor caddy' had
turned the corner of 80 Poor Padh,
poor caddy! watch yerself mhic. an
don't let the oul'.fashion. good.for.
nothin sthreels o girls that's goin'
get the blind side of ye; for I'm watch.
in an there isn't wan o them from
the top of the parish to the tail iv 1t,
butts doin' her dead best to thrap ye.
An then Padh would wink like
fox. an shake the head. an say, 'Niver
fear for Padh Mullen! mother niver
fear for Paid Mullen! The sthreel of
a girl takes in Padh i'll get up NOR
tial early-she'll have to get up afore
she goes to bed, mother.
But 10 an behould ye! wasn't there
a poor thravellin woman goin' about
an doesn't she pitch her camp of
night in Padh's. An sittin be the fire
she rises the question of why Padh
didn't marry, an Padh's mother argue.
fed the queskin with her. an showed
her she wouldn't let Padh marry know
in the sort of haiverils (half.wits) OF
girls was goin', that would only take
in the poor boy an make him live the
remainder of his life to repent the un.
lucky day their shadow first fell on
him-girls that was good for nothin
but attn and dhrinkin,' and wearin
out cloes. No. she sayed, her boy
would nivir throw himself away on the
likes of them. The poor thravellin
woman-for she was a matchmaker
naither more nor less-she sayed that
she approved of every word of il. an
she styled Padh's mother a good. far
seein'. sensible woman. that knew the
value of good son. But then, she
sayed. she knew a girl in the parish
she came from-the Killybegs' parish
she knew in 1t a girl, wan Nancy
McBrearty that her bate wasn't to be
foun, nor yet her like again, an
screenge all Irelan' with a herrin' net
She was the very girl, she sayed, that
Padh's mother wanted for her son,
wan that would be a help an a com
fort to her in her oul' an stiff days,
an a patthern to her two children, an
wan, besides, that would bring with
her both money an moneys worth.
an farm stock moreover. She then
pictured TO them what Nancy Nc
Brearty was like, an accordin' to her
varsion there wasn't a vartuey in the
catechism wasn't undher Nancy Nc
Brearty's cloak. But the short an the
long an the tail end of all was that
she talked over Padh's mother, till she
come to confess that II Padh could
only come TO get Nancy McBrearty-
her money, an moneys worth, an
farm stock, moreover he'd be a made
man an settled for life, an she'd be as
contented as a queen on her throne
an no more heart-burns, too, about
the sthreels OF the parish thryin' to
turn the poor boy Padh's head, an to
coax him away from his mother. Wan
other thing only Padhs mother want
ed to know consarnin' Nancy. Was
she any sort of a moderate alter? be.
kase, If her appetite wasn't within
bounds, 1t would be as bad as ruin
alton to fetch her about the house
But the thravellin' woman soon set
her at rest on this point, for Nancy
she sayed, didn't ate at all; her ap-
petite was so delicate that she just
picked lake chicken. But with all
that, curious TO say, she was as
sthrong an wholesome as a well.fed
year oul.
so the thravellin' woman was sent
away back down TO Killybegs parish
to smooth the way with Nancy; an
week afterwards, on word comm up
Padh's mother packed off Padh away
down-for OWN to the oul age and
the rheumatism, she didn't feel fit to
travel so far herself
AN Padh himself was back inside
three days with a gran account of
an farm stock; an by no means the
least welcome intelligence he had with
him was that, thrue enough, though
Nancy was as strong an wholesome
as a ploughman she ate like a canary
in the consumption. That was iv a
Chewsday. The mkt Sunday Padh
Mullen married Nancy McBrearty an
brang her home-herself her money
an moneys worth an farm stock
moreover An the whole fortune
come after them in an ass's cart. II
was-wan poun' wan an tenpence
ha' penny In dhry money; hundher
of oatmail, a poun' an half of tay
two stone of sugar, five pecks o
praties, a penny'orth iv tibacky, an
a ha'porth of snuff in moneys worth;
and the farm stock was a wealin
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