The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-05-01
lContinued.D


He was the biggest man 7 ever saw
No, l mistake / have seen one bigge
"a German, and he was employed by
a knowing restaurant keeper to stanC
outside the door His great size at
tracted attention, and the people pass
ing, seeing such d big man standing 81
complacently and evidently happy
came to the conclusion that the proprie-
tor inside was a good judge of the in
ner man, so after feasting their eyes OF
the big heap of humanity outside, they
entered in to feast their stomachs on
the big heap of corn and roast beef
chicken and ham and such like courses
all for the small sum of one and SIX
pence. That restaurant was on the
Strand in London, the name Of the
guardian angel outside was Hans Da-
Noust and the name of the tinker of
our village was Jimmy Hope. Now a
tinker in Ireland was, as the poet puts
il, IAN inglorious trade" However,
what would we do without them? You
had a tin can to mend, a kettle or a
teapot a new article of these said kind
costs money, whereas Jimmy Hope, for
the sum of tWopence. would mend such
and enable Madam Darcy or Madam
oiselle Cooney TO boil hot water for the
blacklist and strongest cup of tea You
ever saw or tasted in your earthly ca
Teer. So you see Jimmy Hope was an
acquisition TO our village, and the old
women simply dotted down on him be
cause he repaired these articles With
out which they could never get that
cup-which, as they put it. would brand
lamb Jimmy was over seven feet
two i'm height. with the kindeSt of Irish
faces, the only thing foreign about Il
being a Danish red beard which al
most covered his entire breast. BE WAS
rs straight as the pine, without one
ounce OF superfluous flesh. and his
equal at throwing any kind or weight
was not in the whole breadth of the
land. | never saw him but | was re-
minded of that beautiful character in
Knockna Gow-Matt the Treasher. Al
my readers have read Knoknagow, the
most delightful book ever written, and
the only true book on Irish character
with my New Citrate that | ever came
scross. The kernel Of Irish life is IN
these two books, and the reason is be- |
cause poor dear Charles hickam and |
DR.. Seehan. a household name i'm Amer |
lea. knew the Irish in ali their moods |
and lenses: they had before them as |
they wrote living examples of the char |
acter they described. AS I said before. |
a tinker in Ireland is looked upon as
an inglorious trade, and to cali a man |
q tinker would be far worse than to
consign him forever and a day to the |
shades of Erebus Like the Arab. the
true or real tinker pitched his tent for
the night wherever he happened to be.
and his family. once the tent was
pitched. set forth to the neighboring
houses in quest of potatoes. milk. meat.
bread. and if they did not obtain these
articles by dint of hard begging, why, |
they resorted to the affirmative of the
seventh commandment. Thou shalt
steal" and they did this stealing in
such a polite. genteel way, that for my
part I would forgive them their trans
gressions. Now to give you an in
stance of this taking from Peter to pay
Paul. just accompany me for one mo-
7ent to Father Toms house. Father
rom stands on the steps before the hall I,
iooT. snuff box i'm hand. and before him
are two women with a child tied at
heir back CIndian fashion, and an
,ther pulling at their skirts. / see i
world of commiseration i'm Father !
roms eyes as he hears the plaintive !
story of these women and beholds the !
)arefooted urChins looking SO piteously
t him. One of the women is speaking.
lust listen for q moment and you hear .
'uch phrases as these; God bless Yer
iverence, bud wGd yeh have an ASnus :
Del / lost the wan ] had" i want :
atech'sm from yer reverence for my
imeen there wants to larn the truths +,
" his religion. He's goin' on Tin now
n | was thinkin' ov gettin' him con- :
armed next time the bishop comes"