The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-09-04

And what do you principally
stock" | asked. Guinness"
Yes, Guinness and Cork, and Clon-
mel, in the beer line, sir. We have
some nice cider. too, as good il not
better than Devonshire. Made in town.
here, sir"-and he placed a gold top"
certainly very tastefully got up. on
the counter.
"H-m!" | remarked, and drank off
my Bass. "Ye seem to manufacture
q good deal Of your own stuff here In
Ireland" l added. II thought ye were
poor. distressful nation, ha, ha. hal"
ooh! we're beginning to get on fair
ly well, SIR" and he vigorously wiped
the counter.
$50 l see. Good day."
Good day, sir! good day!" and both
himself and his good lady bowed me
graciously out.
1 wanted some groceries, butter, and
so on. next, and l turned into the first
shop selling thu like l met. 1t was Il
small shop with but one young lady
in charge. She was chatting merriIy
to a cyclist over the counter in a lan-
guage. Gaelic, l presume), which
did not -uEderstand. My previous ex-
perience, assI have already remarked
had put me on edge on the English
manufacture question, so opened fire
at once.
Got any English manufactured bs-
cults" ] asked. ..
mo, sir.'
"Jam?"
mo, sir. All jams made in town
here"
"Blacking?"-U saw that she
stocked some blackng, and ] remem-
bered that l wanted some).
mo, sir; it's Irish, too
Nor have you no foreign butter, oi
course"
oh! no, sir''--and she smiled al
both me and the cyclist
We'll, your tea, ! suppose, is no.
Irish madc?" and ! laughed.
She didn't answer at once. She saw
my joke presently, however, an
laughed, too.
"Well," she said, Il get it from
Cork" and her arch look at me made
me feel that l had come off secont
best about the tea.
you've got no such thing as coffee
essence, suppose" I asked, deter
mined to have some satisfaction.
ooh, yes, I have, sir" producing {
bottle. "Not English, though, sir
made in town here, sir"-and the fu,
in her eyes was by this time IRE
pressible.
"Well." said !, have you anything
at all in the shop English?"-and Il
laughed at my own discontinue, the
joined me. Not boisterously enough
however, I must say. to seem in an
. way rude.
well, sir" she replied, ansWerin
my question after time, "I was go
ing to say%-'Except yourself!' Out q
all jokes, though"-and she becam
, charmingly serious and businessl III:
II believe 1 haven't anything Eng
, lish." "Starch?" "No. silver-spring.
, "Salt?" "No, Carroll's." "Soap?
"No Duhlin." "Tinned meat?" IN,
I Limerick"
!, "Well," l said. II suppose there
no help for it, though it seems quee
/. Could you send me some things ou
j, to where I'm staying?" (giving her til
+ address of the fleld.)
, Oh, yes: sh. uld b
donkics in town. hat drectio
G and it would be all right. 10 max
:. long story short, gave her m
I order and bade herself and her frien
4 good-day.
BY this time had got used to n
o longitude, and so, when I looked in,
the first straw hat I fancied in tt
j shop over the way, / wasn't surprise
@ to see the word Wexford" inside. II
8 hat fitted me, however, and took
2. In the same shop were great piles
q. Icloth I didn't want any, but I nj
X ticed, judging from the cards attache
Il that most If not all Of It was made