The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-23

she's speakin' me smooth and sweet.
I'll just step inside the room-door
here till she's gone again"
Mother" says Dinny, says he, "if
it's your notion that I'm goin' to sill
me sowl tellin' lies for you to my
fathers Cousin Bid or to anywan
else, while you listen from behind
the doore, ye're laborin under
very great mistake entirely, let me
tell you. If you want anywan to tell
lies for ye, mother just stay out
here and tell them yourself"
'Do as your mother tells ye, Din
NY" was all she said, and stepped
in behind the room-door, and closed
it. But she opened it again to put
out her head, and call under her
breath, "And, Dinny, hang up that
Casslmeer where that woman'll be
sure to see it."
In faith, it was small enough was
the likin even Dinny had for his
fathers Cousin Bid, and it was less
still was his likin' for her since, on
the Candlemas twelvemonth afore,
she had carried her ill-heart and bad
tongue over to Derryalt where he
was coortin', and set purity Mary
Kennedy's people again him And
he then promised if it should ever
come his way to do his fathers
Cousin Bid an i'll turn, he'd think
three times before ned allow his
conscience to hold him.
When his fathers Cousin Bid step
ped over the threshel, with a wee
bunch of greeneries atween her
fingers and ready God save all
here" on her tongue, Dinny, who
was sittin' by the fire with his back
to the door, just turned his head
slow, and he looked her up and
down, and then give her a nod. He
pointed to a chair, without putin a
move out of himself, and Bid, a good
bit mystified. went and sat down
on il. And Dinny begun lookin' into
the fire.
"Maise, Dinny,' says she, what's
maxim you look so mortal glum?
Or what's the matter with ye, at all,
at all?"
Then Dinny turned his eyes again
on her, and he says sorrowfully:
Bridget Managhan, ye ought to
feel sore ashamed of yerself."
And for why, Dennis Meighan?"
says Bid, says She bridlin'.
Bridget Managhan,' says Dinny,
says he, reproachfully, "ye add in
suit to injury"
Bid was both mixed and mysti.
fled. Says she:
For goodness sake, Dinny Meig.
han, tell me what are we dhrivin
at, anyhow"
Dinny put up one hand to one eye
and as it seemed to the consternated
Bid, rubbed away tear; and he
then put the other hand to the other
eye, and rubbed away another tear.
Bridget Managhan," says he then.
turnin' hurtin' eyes on her. Bridget
Managhan." says he, ye never came
anear either the wake or the fu-
neral, and you're the last in the
worl | would have expected such
slight from. | say We ought to be
sore ashamed Of yourself
THE wake'' says Biddy, all open
mouthed. And the funeral" says
she with the eyes of her startin'.
The wake says Dinny, says he,
so tmn, 'land the ,iunerll-never
came anear one or the other of them
an never sent as much as a mes
sage. | say, how can ye show your
face in this house-and not a blush
on it elthero"
For the Lords sake. Dinny Meig-
han" says Bridget, says she, will
ye tell me at oncet what wake ye're
talkin' of, and what funeral?"
Poor Dinny looked into the fire,
and, says he, with blurt, Me poor
mothers wake, of course. and funer.
al--may God be merciful to her