River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03

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, we see, Padh, he lived all
alone with his ouP mother an his wan
sister. A brave, comfortable farm, an
a warm house, an full wan, in throth
they had. An small wondher! for our
Sheelah Mullen, Padh's 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', it was Lent all the year
round with them. An she brought up
her son and daughter to the PATTERNS
Of herself. Naither of them iver joined
in divarsion, or coorted like young
sters will. The ouP mother was par
tikerly GASEOUS of Padh in this regards,
for she thought every girl squinted
at her doore had designs on him.
"'Poor Padh! poor caddy!' she
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turned the corner of 40. Poor Padh!
poor caddy! watch yerself a mhic, an
don't let the oul-fashion, good-for-
nothin' sthreels O. girls that's go1n'
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 ~ It,
butts 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 Paid Mullen! The sthreel OF
a girl takes in Padh ill get up NOR
tial early-shell have to get up afore
she goes to bed, mother
''But 10 an behould we! wasn't there
a poor thravellin' woman goin' about
an doesn't she pitch her camp of a
night in Padh's. An sittir' 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 (halt-wits) of
girls was goin', that would only take
fl the poor boy an make him live the
remainder Of his life to repent the I'M
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
hikes of them The poor thravellin'
woman-for she was a matchmaker
naither more nor IesE-she sayed that
she approved of every word of it, an
she styled Padh's mother good, far
seem, sensible woman, that knew the
value of a good son. But then, she
sayed, she knew girl in the parish
she came from-the Killybegs' parish
-sho knew in it a girl, wan Nancy
IMcBrearty that her bate wasn't to be
foun', nor yet her like again, an
screenge all Irelan' with herrin' net.
lShe 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 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
yarsion there wasn't vartuey In the
catechism wasn't undher Nancy Nc
Breartys 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 lie made
man an settled for life, an she'd be as
contenLed as a queen on her throne
ar 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
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-
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picked lake a chicken. But with all
that. curious to say, she was as
pthrong an wholesome as a weli-fed
year oul'.
so the thravellin woman was sent
away back down to Killybegs parish
to smooth the way with Nancy; an a
week afterwards, on word comm up,
Padh's mother packed off Padh away
down-for, OWN to the ouP 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
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 ploughman she ate like 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 cart. 1t
was-wan poun' wan an tenpence
ha'penny in dhry money; a hundher
of oatmail, a poun' an a 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;
calye always lookin' for something to
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