Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-31

i liz llottuSulSSIc SlSLCIS nave dISO Or
ganized
hunk av mate yez'd fond in the six
counties.
Lizzie she sayed but little, for she
wor outnumbered, yez see, but thin
thot knowed her from baby an thot
wor not blinded loike her feyther an
Feyther Francis Mccarthy. who hilt
ont for Pat, cud see as she wOr not
happy. But she wor too proud TO ivver
let ony won see it. An, to crown il
all, Rory lift the place, an nobody
knowed where he whit
Whin Lizzie promised her feyther he
built her shmall house about two
mile from the widdy's farm, on the
edge of the highroad to the valley an
the mkt town. He sold his holdin's in
the aud place an all he had to movs
to the widdy's whin they wor mar
ried-all but wan harSe Lizzie made
SO much fuss over this an cried so
harrud thot the aud spalpeen av a
feyther milted an KEEP it for Lizzie
1t hadn't its aquil in all Kerry. savin'
wan, an thot wor he's full brother an
thot belonged to man far up the val
ley, where Rory wurreked sometimes.
They wor just as black as a crow an
loike the pictures av harses in books
My, but their tails an names wor long
an fioated in the wind soft an free.
Nivver wor two harSes finer to look at
dancin' an runnin'. too. when let.
My, but they wor fine harses, an it is
q pity, so it wor,
Yis, I'm comm to thot. AS l say,
Lizzie wouldn't let Cargo. the harse,
be selled, an so he wor took to Kerry
an called Lizzie's harse
So whin her feyther wor merried
wild the WILDLY she wint for to live wild
thin. but she soon seen she. wor I'M
Welcome, an like jutffui gell she say
she will marry Pat, so whin the bit aI
house wor done an plenished she
wor cried in church three Sundays. an
thin she say she would be merried
undher her own roof on New Years or
not at all, at all.
So, thin, seem as she wor so detar
mined, the rist they give in. an all
the intoire neighborhood KEN to the
little new house to see the weddin
wild Pat McGowan, We all farmed a
percession an walked along the road
an Lizzie wor drissed in fine white
gown fwhat Lady Morris give her, but
she wor whittier nor her drlss, an !
seen her movin' her lips all along the
road like she wor talllin' wild some one
we cuddent see. She looked like she
wor aslape
Whin we all KEN to the dure ay the
feyther's house an wor walkin' along
decorous an quiet Rory O'Brannigan
wor standin' by ii, an wbin Lizzie
passed him by wild a strange kim az
look he say nivver a word, but he's face
look like a cold corpus. He look al
Lizzie, but she nivver raise her eyes
| to him.
All the company had gathered at hel
fayther's farrum, where her stipmOth
; er had made a foine taste for all
| There wor flitches av bacon billed vic
| cabbage, baked praties, an butter gu
| lore, an hot cakes, an milk an but
| terrnilk, an spareribs, an bloaters, an
| kippers Drilled, an'-oh, | cuddent tel
| you in wake-an' scenes, an fine
white bread, an tay, an whusky fo1
| the askin'.
Whin it growed dusk av the twilight
there wor to be the merriage an the
| ingatherin'. An the first fire wor to b,
made on the hearth. Feyther Franci!
had little altar fixed on the big CHS
| av drawers, an Lizzie suddint would
have it thot the ceremony shuGden
begin till on the stroke av twilve. jus
as the New Year wor comm in.
| SO she wor thot obstinate thot Ii,
one cud control her, an instid nv thu
merriage bein' at twilight it wor Sc
for twilve, an she would have it tho
they should dance at her feyther's-al
av thin thot could shake leg. Ault
| Pat Rafferty, wor the fiddler, an And,
| McGraw wor the piper, an they win
at 1t hot fut. All the wimmin say !
wor dangerous for to go through thu
roads bechune half past elivin an
twilve, for the Leprechauns are on
thin, an sorra's the day for the brid,
they catch!
It wor two miles to the little hous