Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-05
PADH MULLEN'S
 NANCY. By sEUMAs MscMANUs
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Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles.l

Who was PRdh Mullen? How was it? What happened to him?" we all inquired.
 What" exclaimed the Bummadier. do ye mane 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. A brave, comfortable farm. an g warm house, an full wan. in throth they had. An small wondher! for oul' Sheelah Mullen, Padh's mother, was the woman knew how, when she got her list on penny to hour 1t; an, moreover, then to make that penny go as far as another woman's thrup- pence. As regards their aitin' and dhrinkin. it was Lent all the year round with them An she brought up her son and daughter to the pattherns of herself Naither of them iver joined in a divarsion, or .coorted like young .sters will. The oup mother was par tikerly casious of Padh in this 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 40. 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, but's doin' her dead best to thrap ye. "An' then Padh would wink like a fox, an shake the head, an say, 'Niver fear for Padh Mullen! mother niver fear for Pahd Mullen! The sthreel of g girl takes in Padh i'll get up mor- tial early-she'll have to get up afore she goes to bed, mother
 But To an behould ye! wasn't there . poor thravellin woman goin' about an doesn't she pitch her camp of a night in Padh's. An sittin' be the fire she rises the question of why Padh didn't marry, an Padh's mother argue fled 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 ir 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 aitin' 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-shc saved that she approved of every word of it, an she styled Padh's mother good, far seein', sensible woman, that knew the value of a good son. But then, .she saved, she knew girl in the parish she came from-the Killybegs' parish she knew in 1t girl. 8 wan Nancy McBrearty that her bate wasn't to be foun', nor yet her like again. an screenge all Irelan' with herrin' net. She was the very girl. she sayed. that Padh's mother wanted for her son, wan that would be help an com fort to her in her our an stiff days. an 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 Mo Brearty was like. an accordin' to her varsion there wasn't vartuey in the catechism wasn't undher Nancy Mo 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 If Padh could only come to get Nancy McBrearty- her money, an moneys worth, an farm stock, moreover, he'd te made man an settled for life. an she'd be as conten.ed as 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 Padh's mother want ed to know consarnin' Nancy. Was she any sort of moderate alter? be- kase, if her appetite wasn't within bounds, it would be as bad as ruin- ation 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 a chicken. But with all that, curious to say, she was as sthrong an wholesome as a well-fed year our.
 50 the thravellin' woman was sent away back down to Killybegs parish to smooth the way with Nancy; an week afterwards. on word comin' up. Padh's mother packed on Padh away down-for, owin' to the our age and the rheumatism. she didn't feel At to travel so far herself
 An Padh himself was back inside three days with gran account of Nancy, her money an moneys worth, 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 pIoughmen she ate like . canary in the consumption. That was iv . chevsday. The mkt Sunday Padh Mullen married Nancy McBrearty an brang her home-herseif. her money an moneys worth. an farm stock, .,oroover An the whole fortune