The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-18

lit up with one of Dunmoyle's barns.
He may grind the face of US and
bring a lawsuit every day in the week.
but if it pleases heaven spare US, it
may cost him a plump bit in the end.
I tell you. Peggie, a man that will dig
up a fairy-mount, as DunmOyle did,
will have no luck. Sure, Lord Bal
Ena's bailiff himself sent five women
10 see could he stop it: but no, Dun
moyIe took every grain of sand in il,
and there isn't a Christian of us now
knows where it is. Little wonder all
to be upside down with US. The
heather. not know a fa1ry-mOunt
when he sees it,
The pig was trying all this time to
get a potato from the baby. Peggie
brought things to a crisis by firing one
of ShannOn's bTOgues over his head,
whereupon the hungry pair began
munching the potato together
We'll. il would take a man twice as
good as Dunmoyle to bring me before
the justice" said Shannon, land I'll
not pay him a shilling, either. Look
at the bit of a rental he pays Lord
BaIIina and throw all the distress on
Us"
Don't fret. Michael" said Peggie
Sure. I dreamed in my bed last night
you had ditching brought you in
pound"
What in the devils name, Peggie,
makes you never know you are wet
till you're drowned? >" said Rathdonnel,
Swinging impatiently to his feet
Better have a shilling in your pocket
than a pound in a dream. You must
not want. spirit
There is a differ between wanting
spirit and wanting sense" said Peg
gle. walking up to Shannon's side
I could give Dunmoyle my hearts
blood if he'd do by me as he should"
said Shannon; treat me as if / was
a man."
Every station has that right" put
in RathdonneI Il lay a shilling, with
all his pretensions. DunmOyle's lived
in a small cage some time. 1t isn't all
his life he sat with a pipe in his mouth
watching a dog-fox go by the turnip
field"
He don't dare sit a horse that has
Mt plenty of bone beneath the knee"
laughed Shannon. Isn't so? Lord
save us. Lord Ballina was a gentle
man, and heart and soul a sportsman
He didn't care for money; he spent
every week what DUnmoyle would
spend in year; he'd as soon pay
twice over the worth of a thing; he
wasn't afraid if his checks once in a
while did come back to him.
You were only a small slip then"
said Rathdonnel, turning an admiring
glance toward Peggie, but Shannon
and me mind the castle full every
winter, hunting and shooting. You
ccuIdn't see the turnips for the part
ridges then, and the sky black with
the woOdcock a Donegal linen dra-
per-s no hand at anything like that;
he knows a FIVE note and the ways OF
Dame street. that's all. He sent Gu
sick off saw It myself-to bring
out some trash for the dairy, and he
only paid him ninepence made him
carry three stone of earthenware and
a slab of marble thirteen miles"
shannon went presently to the baby,
and laid one hand on his amber
tinted head. "Peggie," he said, III
wrack every stick in the place in
smithereens before Dunmoyle shall
touch the cabin, and I'll send him a
civil message to say So
Hell be after giving you a skinful
OF broken bones to bring Peggie'
said RathdonneI, rising from rick
ETY. little stool on which he had main
tanned his balance with difficulty.
Il don't care a traneen if he does"
said Shannon. ENORMOUSLY. Just then
a bIackbird gave his { tally-hO of a
whistle Talk Of shooting" cOntin-
ued shannon. 4 am fond of shooting
myself, but I never get shot now