The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-21
That Was Talbot s Cue.

%AA@O ssoho 4HAbSS oeSuVs
That was Talbot s cue. He goes back
to the first Earl, who was set up in
business by Rodney the Red, for help
in out in war to see who should be
King of Ireland. 1t takes him half an
hour to get down to the sixth Earl, that
had four sons, the father of old Pat
bein' the second, one Morgan O Don
mel McCabe by name.
Accordin' to Talbot, this Horgan was
an ill-tempered lad, always doin' the
| rough house act with his old brother,
until he finally quit Enniscorthy for
good and went off to be a sailor. He
| hadn t been missin a month before the
first brother falls down a well, and
when the old Earl gets tired of Twin ,,
some years after, the third brother
steps in and claims everything in sight.
| AS Horgan never turns up again,
| there s no one to swear out dispossess,
so the fake Earl stays on the job. But
the curse is on him. He keeps too busy
with the poteen to get married, and
the first thing he knows he IS drunk him
self to death; and, their being no heir,
and not much else left but stone
castle that's fallin apart, the red flag
goes up over Enniscorthy, and there IS
vacancy in the list of Earls.
Things run along that way for a
| hundred years or SO, and then Talbot,
| in workin up a case about some lands,
! digs out this story of the disapearin
! heir. About the same time he comes
across a pamphlet, printed in New
| York, givin the history of the Cherry
| Hill Lodge of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, and there's the name of
| Daniel Horgan McCabe.
''The moment | saw that says Tai
bot, 81 knew I was on the track of
| the rightful Earl of Enniscorthy, which
is YOU.
Nov will you own up2" says Sadie.
Well, say, you'd hardly believe it,
| but they had me off my feet. I'd start
ed out as cold eyed to the proposition
as a Dutch brewer that S strayed into
| a convention of the Women s Christian
Temperance Union; but for all that,
finds myself askin "Suppose it s so?'
Not that L says it out loud. I keeps
on gaggin' the part through, and tryin
to show 'em where the plot is weak in
the knees; but little by little / m slip.
pin over the edge.
Was you ever accused of being an
! Earl, Irish or otherwise2 Then you
can't get any idea what it s like. 1t
goes to your head like the third glass
! of fzz. Before / know it l m THROWN
a picture on the screen of me and Sadie
/ as the Earl and Earless of Enniseorthy,
| arrivin' back from Dublin, with Mrs.
Astor and Mrs. Fish waitin' for us on
! the pier, and the reserves clubbin' back
the reporters / listens without a kick
while Sadie plans how she II rebuild
the cid castle, put in steam. porcelain
baths, and electric lights, and make me
She has it all figured out how we II
| spend our summers there, and who
we II ask to visit MS the first season.
"And Mr.. Fitzgerald says we ought
to begin right away" says she, "with
our suit to have the title and estates
restored. Shorty, don t you feel a lit
tie staggered by it all. -
/ did; but I wa mt admittin' al
much. We have the Fitzgeralds stay
TO dinner; and when Pincknev drops in
later in the evenin', the whole story
has to be gone over for his benefit. II
Pinckney d only slipped me the ha-ha
it would have brought me out of my
trance; but not him. He's just as
ready to take an Earl on faith as the
) rest of his set.
"McCabe, Earl of Enniscorthy,'
says he, rollin it under his tongue like
it tasted good. FThat s ripping, you
know. Shorty, 7 always said you haG
good blood in you
| sc 'wan!" says I, but I says il