The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-16
BACKWARD AEDY's cooRTN'
(An Irish Love Story. ny sEJJMAS MAC MANUS.

tAn Irish Love story.
 BY sEUMAS MAC MANUs.
 (Author of Through the Turf Smoke I "'Twas in Dhroll Donegal" etc., | Copyright. 1908. by Joseph B. Bowles.) | Liza Jane lived in the very next townland to myself. An ,as Liza Jane was given out for a, hundred pounds of dry money. there was. as ye may | well suspect, tremendous tramo oi boys come afther her
 ' But it's little encouragement they I got from Liza Jane. she considered coortin a ridiculous waste Of time that a pair of tomfools. only. might engage in: an for marvin. the most of the lads that presented themselves l she said she wouldn't make dishciouts | of them, to wipe pot.
 This, I say. she thought of most of I the neighbor boys. but not of all. l There was one. Andy McClarnin. or Bab's Andy, as he was better known ] by raison, as his fathers name was I Bab. Anyway, this Bab's Andy, was no eyesore to, Liza Jane, for he had l fine farm that fed five milch-cows. an give ten head of stock to sell on every i harvest his father, poor man. was nve year dead. st sa4
 An, Liza Jane Bohunnan saw that all things considered. she couldn't get l an wouldn't ask for, a better or a warmer sittin' down than Bab's Andy S An 'acordin'ly she made up her mind | that she'd marry Bab's Andy-7in ease ! the boy was anyways middlin' wiliin ! So Liza Jane boughtga new hat an | went to meetin' as often now in one | month as she had troubled 1t in three | months afore. till MT. McPollin, the minister, nottcin' 1t. remarked that Liza Jane Bohunnan was very serious
 ly turnin' to religion.
 | An Liza Jane now likewise become | a-g A.~. ell U-n2 T- | ties in the three parishes, an magic lantern entertainments, an night lee lures by missioners, who had Just come hack from terrible adventures among the black haythen. An Bab's Andy l fetched her home safe from every one of then--au' as a reward for his duti- fulness larnt more in thress months Il about the proper way Of rearfn' young pigs than. he had larnts in half his lire
 Lizas Jane, cdr.siderin' it one of the 1 corplar works of marcy to encourage the narvous. 9coorted him the next year as hard as she did the year afore; she coorted him on the rearin' of pigs, an | she coorted him on the breedin' of | caivee, and she coorted him on the care an hanelin' of every individual
 brute in a farmers back yard. | At the tall-end O four years coort-
 ship Liza Jane begun to be not too | Dld1SeQ WfIn pIoCcC0tA B. Nh AoAA eOSes | raisoon, too the poor girl had. | Mother" says she of night when I hoth herself an her mother was sittin' over the kitchen fire, T bave let him | fool round me for long enough. mean" goes on she, ito have him, once | an for all, make up his mind on this | matter whether he wants to make a l wife of me or not--I mean that he'll make it up. or I'll make it up for. him | purty quick. !" es@ sFS't 's '"
 Brave woman ye are. Liza. Jane.'''
 says the mother. says she. eS An on next Sunday night, too. he'll make his decision"
 "The jewel ye are. Liza Janer | An when. on the next Sunday night, poor Andy, poor sowl, come ploddin' | to Liza Jane's, its little he suspected the thraps tha. was laid down for him to walk into.
 Are ye all aloneT' says he My mother an them," sayst she. | went one road an another. to see the nei ighbors, an left me to myself" which" says Babs Andy, says he.
 was noways kindly of them torst ye."
 (Which" says Liza Jane, says she.
 calm. an lookin' steady into the fire. | was very, very good of them.' f' Good of them!' says Andy. says he. was very, very good of then," says she. ."considerin' that they knew I needed a ouate hour to myself to dis cuss in me mind very serious mat
 ter-in fact. may say. an exthraor-
 dinary serious matter" l
 an the face on him got lengthy at
 onct, an he says. "oh! beg yer par don. Liza lane.
 An extraordinary serious matter,
 as I was sayin'," she went on, as cool an calm, 'an' one that wants good l over, that Inn mortal glad to have ye here to talk 1t over with ye." | \ oh. says Babs Andy. says he, set ltlin himself to hear it. an lookin' pleas ed that he was to be consulted. 1 For" says she, tits such matter that there's only one man in the worf | I could talk it over with-an' that's you"
 Pm proud" says Andy. I'm proud
 to know it. Liza Jane.
 | "For better, for worse" says she,
 playin' thrump-card. for richer for poorer, for good or for i'll.
 | Poor Andy, it seemed like dhraim
 to him that he'd heard something Ea Ike | them words somewhere or other afore'
 but it puzzled him for minute to
 mind what 1t was about. So he gave
 it up, an remarked, Just so Liza
 Jane. Indeed, so?'
 | An then says she For richer. I say | cd, TOT poorer, TOT good or TOT Ill., lioh' | this time henceforrid. Then she
 waited a wee bit. to give him another
 chance-though if shed waited durin'
 the nine lives of cat 1t would never get into Andys skull. Andy McClar-
 nin,' she says don't ye see what l I'm dhrivin' at?"
 | Poor Andy looked confused an
 ashamed. of himself. an says he; l Faith, an l don't, then, Liza, know
 from Adam down what yere dhrivin' | at. at all. '
 l T don't doubt it." says Liza Jane,
 sevairly. Well, will ye understand
 me when say that I'm thinkin' l had best marry, an settle down" Troth, that was plain enough for a palm post to understand. So it's very little wondher that Bab's Andy did. i Marry says she. "an settle down, |" 1 perfectly cool an calm, an never seem
 in to see Andy's raptures at all. An" | says she, '1 was waitin, very anxious, to have your opinion on it