Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-05

extraordinary antics that he had ever
witnessed in Il human being. She hoped
and she jumped. and skipped and leaped.
and pranced and danced, In the most out
rageous fashion. Then she attacked q
stack of hay that was in the hagSard.
She went up one side of it like cat
and down the other side like log. And
when she had her fill of this she raced
over to a rowan tree that grew both big
and high in the center of the garden and,
to Phelimys amazement, began spelling If.
like monkey till she got into the very
1opmost branches. where she called
cuckoo till her lungs must have been
sore: for even al that distance. Phelimy
could plainly hear her. Then. finally. she
turned and, crawling or tumbling-he
couldn't tell which-or' maybe both to-
gether, went rafting, head foremost.
through the branches and dropped in Il
heap on the ground But that very min
ute, as good luck would have it, out OF
the house two men came rushing, jumped
the garden wall and were at her side in
jiffy. Phelimy. in his own GREATNESS and
terribly excited state. watched them bend
ing over her for signs of life and then
hosting her up between them and carry
And the instant his own powers and
presence of mind came back to him he
jumped up from where he sat. The hat
fell off his head as he jumped, but he
didn't mind it, and hadn't time to look
after it. for he tore off with himself over
The hill. with the speed Of a moor afire.
in the opposite direction from Terry's.
running like a wild thing. And Carney
and then the whole country was alarmed
10 know what was the matter with
Phelimy Brady that he went breathless
and painting. following his nose like "a
mailman over height and hollow, without
time to say anything to them, only wave
them out of his way and jump over those
who couldn't carry themselves out of ii
quick enough And stop, or pause or
draw breath, he didn't till. painting and
ganting, he reached the priests and be-
sought him for the Lords sake to go off
as quick as his heels would carry him and
give the last rites to Terry COnnollys
new wife of Camlaraghan-if. he added
obviously. he had the good luck to over
take her alive. He waited a few seconds
at the priests to jerk this out of him,
and was off the next instant in bee
line over the country again, as wild and
as mad looking as before, alarming and
astonishing the natives. and never stop
ping or hating till he was at the doc
tors and giving him, too, imperative
ders to be off with him to Terry Con-
nolly's new wife of Camlaraghan. to try
if he could catch the breath in her and
keep it there-though he doubted very
much IL he would. And then-for Phelmy
was man who never did things BY
halves-he struck line for the magis-
trate's and, bursting into that gentlemanS
presence with small ceremony, nearly
choking him with the bit was in his
throat-for the magistrate was just i'll
the middle Of his dinner at the time
Phelimy ordered him to be up and off,
for that Terry Connolly's new wife was
killed in Camlaraghan, and it was his
duty to be there Immediately and either
take her dying dispositions or. if she
was past that, then saddle the blame on
the right shoulders.
And without any delay. as fast he
had told them, the priest and the doc
tor, and the magistrate had saddled and
bridled and were scurrying over the coun-
try. And Phelimy himself was taking the
bitches and hedges and all sorts of near