The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-13
IRISH CHARACTER SKETCHES.

1 hearts ov the English government by
my new policy Of non-possumus.''
Having delivered himself thus Joe
would insert the thumbs under the arm
pits of his waistcoat, advance the right
/ foot and half closing the left eye, he
would mediate for half an hour on his
non-possumus policy. While engaged
thus no customer could get their wants
! from him. They would have to wait
patiently until the fit passed away /
shall never forget the sensation that
occurred in the village one August
evening. 1 am sure that the news of the
Russians landing at Queenstown or the
invasion of England by the Germans
would not have created one-half the
furore as the fact that Joe Cassildy's
daughter Julia got bycicle. Poor Peg
the Barge, seated on her doorstep at
variance with the world, saw Julia and
the bycicle and, 10. the long Salyrod
falls out of Pegs hands. her body as
sumes an upright, stiff posture, a. if she
had just got a glimpse of the judgment
day. and then. slowly, and as it were
painfully, raising herself off the door
step, she enters into her house and was
not seen for four days, On the evening
Of the fourth day. just as the people
We're beginning to think she was dead,
she emerges again, pushing before her
an object which was once meant to be
a perambulator. ScoTning the looks of
the people, she makes her way UP the
village as stern as fate TO Joe Cassidy's
public house, and entering she accosts
the astonished Cassidy thus:
Il KEN to give yeh ride, Cassidy"
''In what, Mrs. Cole?"
In me double-Whe punymatick
bycicle, Cassidy
oh it would brake down under me,
Mrs. Cole"
1T won't, Cassidy. bud in wud yeh
at wanst, for I'm in a hurry" and Peg
pointed to the strange vehicle.
You are not in earnest, Mrs, Cole.
Pom me veracity L"
Peg siezes Cassidy before he can go
any further. and with a wonderful
strength, she lifts him off his legs and
places him in the perambulator with,
Nv yeh don't keep quiet, as sure as yer
name is Cassidy I'll brake every bone
in yer body" and then pushing the per-
ambulator, with Joe in it, she makes a
triumphal march down the village, and
every perch she bawled forth the words:
Joe CasSidyS daughter Julia has got
n punymatick for grandeur, an he has
got wan, too; ha, ha; and amidst the
CONSERVATION and laughter of the vii
lage the triumphal march ended-in the
river. and Peg wends her way home
lures. and these words on her lips
1.-THE grander ov the Cassidys has got
a GOBLIN"
Joe after that eventful scene lay un-
der such cloud of Tidicule that not all
his speeches nor his non-possumus pol
icy could ever lift, and Julia, we'll, her
bycicle was laid aside forever, and
whenever she wants to take the fresh
air the old gray pony and the bone
l., t.
QUESTION, Some day, when the angels
take poor Peg the Barge TO her rest.
Julia may go in for grandeur again, but
as long as the stern guardian Of hu-
miiity watches over the village | ain
afraid we shall never have either motor
cars or bicycles Poor Joe, the climax
OF his ambition he never reached, and
as see him leaning on his counter this
August afternoon he seems TO be dis
appointed man. The nature and extent
of his non possumus policy we shall
never know.
when 1 am dead and gone" he
would say, with melancholy shake of
his head, 1.-THE country will know me
worth, but then it will be too late
never read these line oy Gray bud 1 see
meSelf in them:
a Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark, unfathom'd caves of ocean
bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush I'M
seen,
And waste its fragrance on the desert
air.
80 Some village Hampden, that, with
dauntless breast.
The village Tyrant of his fields with
stood
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may
rest,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his coun-
try's blood.
Ambition is laudable confined within |
proper limits, and poor Joe's ambition |
IL It scared to great heights. well, we |
can excuse II with the words:
Ambition should be made of sterner |
stuff
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