The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-10-10

about half way through when JACK
Mccormick had occasion TO look for q
parcel for a woman by the roadside
and it was then that he found to his
horror that he had forgotten to leave
the doctors bottle at Mrs. Geraghty S
'Ah, the doctors bottle, Mister
Dowd, forgot to leave it, as l passed
Peggy Geraghty's house; she might
want it badly, an what am to do, at
tall, at all, now?"
oh answered Dowd, don't be dis
turbed. you will meet some one on the
road who might be passing by her
house, an you can send it back WIG
thin.
True for yeh. Mister Dowd."
| Again the Journey was resumed, and
in The next quarter of mile Jack met
man driving donkey cart
"My man" shouted Jack at him.
re yeh passing by Peggy Geraghty's?"
''Yisf,' answered the man feebly.
It's all right, thank yeh all the
same. Gee UP. Charley. Look Mister
Dowd," said Jack, leaning across the
doctors bottle wud him, for he's a
man that's always quackin' himself, an
he might drink it. iv l sint it wud him.
Hello, therei are We passin Peggy
Geraghty's?" this to a man seemingly
asleep on a cart
"Yis," answered the man, raising his
head with a stupid look.
'All right, don't mind, thank yeh all
the same. Look. Mister Dowd, that
man is drunk, an iv I STINT the doctors
bottle wud him he might drink it,
thinkin it was whisky. All! I'm in
lucks way now" as Jack espied man
in the distance. Here's Dan Reid, the
sailor. the most methodickal man in
existence. as ather Tom says. It's the
trainin' does it, Mister Dowd. [ was
thinkin' meself wanst ov joinin' the
navy bud me mother, God rest her
sowl, wudn't let me. hin yeh meet
sailor, Mister Dowd. address him in his
own language, an though ye don't
know the Prov from the front part ov
a vessel, he'll be perlite."
Ship ahoy there! Dan Reid
AYE. aye! Mccormick
"Are We steerin anyway near Peggy
Geraghty's log cabin?"
aye! aye! Mccormick"
Thin give her this lie for her ships
machinery, Reid"
AYE! Aye! Mccormick"
"Heave to there. Reid
Aye! Aye! Mccormick
Cdl6 NON dSS' 1NNll.
Safe voyage Mccormick
what a satisfaction it is to dale
wud a larned man, a trained man in
any walk ov life" resumed Jack lit
tie further on l wanst heard - oh;
be the morthal frost! here Jack, in tie
course of his remarks found that he
had given to Dan Reid his own WHISKY
bottle. instead OF the doctors bottle
John Dowd hearing the stoppage in
Jacks remarks, turned to the latter
and inquired.
Anything the matter wud yeh, Nc
Cormick?"
''Nothin', Mister Dowd, thank yeh,
only a slight concushion ov me heart.
I'm inclined to get it at odd time, bud
this time it's very sivere. I'll be bet
ter. Place God. in a minute"
Tell me. Mister Dowd, said Jack
when the feigned attack was over. Tell
me. did We ever in yer life make mis-
take?"
Father Tom says"
You never made a grievous mistake,
Mister Dowd?"
Not that 1 am aware ov. Jack
''Yeh never gave five shillings for
;hillin', Mister Dowd?"
mo, Jack"
Thin / hwy yer perSplculty, Mister
Oowd," and then Jack murmurs, soto
7oce, IF the ould divil knew what [
vas after doin' I might give up driv-
n the mail car, bud 1 hope Peggy
9eraghty will not drink me medicine.
She'll wonder at all Events that the
abil to be shakin' before takin' wasn't |
IN it, an it might stop her.
But Peggy Geraghty knew the value |
# medicine, as events showed. DR. |
Ierald called the next day to see her. |
nd on his entry she greeted him in the
words:
May the heavens be yer bed tonight, |
octor, bud yeh stint me the jewil ov q |
,ottle. It cured me pains. an I drunk |
t all, as there was no directions on |
t; an maybe yen sind me another like |
The surprised doctor looked at Peg /
US bottle, and could not understand
he situation. but next day, when he
eard the whole particulars from Jack
well, he swore, BY the
treat Frederick" and laughed.
Jack Mccormick still drives the mail
ar and enlivens the journey with a
lever ceasing flow of talk on all sub
ects. especially his true, lasting love
or the black. Long may he live to
old the rihhonS