Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-08-25
How Pat Was Working
When Eileen Arrived
"A Labor Day Story
By NORA c. MCCARTHY
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911.

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ii citation. 1911. IIif
Pat" said Eileen when Pat started Il
for America. Il hope you won't git
mixed up in the labor troubles in that
country. They say sometimes there's
fghtin', and Dim skeert ov yer gittin'
kilt" =
"Niver moind, sweetheart, Oil take
good care O. mescu ag'in yer comm
over to jine me anu Well be married
and live in nice little shanty and
have a pig ana xoat and live loike
gintle folk"
But they say, Pat, that in America
they don't have llgs. Anyway, they
don't keep 'em III the house olive
heard that the pigs Is all KEEP together
and killed Observation-Disclosures a
llather of tin or a dozen at one KILN"
THAT won't mlrher to us. Wen
have one just to remind us of home.
And We'll have this shanty Dim tellin'
ye about wild the ladder goin' up to
the second story
Och, Pat, they DON'T have ladders in
America, they navu stairs"
well. we'll hare a ladder in our
shanty just as We'll have the pig. And
by that same toKtm Well have a COO
for milk"
"But Oim told people don't keep
COOS of their own IN that country. ALL
the milk is put III q big tub and it's
peddled out in wagons"
But We'll nav~ the coo for the
same raison Wen have the pig and
the ladder, to remo1nd us of our beau
tiful islant and the home one couldn't
have in it. becauAe we're too poor.
But in America OIL git together the
money for the shapuy and the pig and
the ladder and the coo, and We'll live
like fghtin' cockA~
So Pat folded the poor girl in his
arms. the tears streaming down her
cheeks at parting with him.
whats the mather, darlin'f'' he
said, patting her rondly. Don't be-
cryin'. It'll not DO long before I sind
We the money 70 come over to me,
and be the to1ma We git there Orn
have the shanty ready. so yell think
ye're right here IN ould Oirland."
ooh, Pat, Dim nared ye won't sue
ceed!
And SO they parted, Pat with no
more money in his pocket than to
take him in the sIeerage across the
ocean. The pair we're too simple and
uneducated to have formed any idea
Of America. Their dream of home
there was such as they might have at
home had they tho means to establish
It, where the pix and the COW and
themselves might al live together in
domestic harmony. !.
Since Pat could not write, his let
tiers from the new country, written by
a friend, were Of the simplest charac-
ter. He realized that even If he COULD,
write his own letters he would never
be able to convex 70 Eileen's simple
mind the real America. he was too
wise to attempt it. At first his letters
began in the usual way with his classs
+, few lines to say that I'm in good health.
thanks be to God, hoping that you are
the same at the presc": time.
Then followed hopes that the crops
would be abundant and that different
members Of the family were we'll
One poor speller who indited letter
for Pat wrote, This letter comes:
hopping that you are well as l am.
thanks be to Godg'
whats that?" said Eileen. cit
comes hoppin'? OF thacht it come BY
q ship" :.
Pat remained several years in Amer
he got start he wrote, "Dar1int,.
Orm buildin' the shanty." When he
made some money he wrote, "Opve
bought the pig" Then the cow fol-
lowed, his shanty was ready and Pat
was ready to send the passage money
that was to bring his sweetheart to-
him In America.
Before starting Eileen wrote that
she wished he could bring the shanty
and the pig and the COW to Ireland.
but she supposed that If he could be-
wouldn't be able to make the money
necessary to keep up the establish
ment. So she made her preparation to.
join him.
Pat knew the day she sailed and the
day the steamer was due in New York.
He wrote her that she would arrive
on holiday they kept in America call
ed Labor day. He would be busy on
that day, and he would send his friend.
Mike Fogarty. to the steamer to meet
her and bring her to where he was
working Eileen thought Pat must be-
very industrious to work on holiday,
and she was glad and proud of him.
When the ship came up to the dock
Eileen saw man on it looking as IF
be might be Fogarty, and he was
pat tould me-" he said. ''to take, ye
where he's workin', and will" He
led Eileen to street where great
crowds were waiting for something to
happen. Then came a hand Of music
and men with sashes and scarfs on
caracoling horses. Among these mem
in black clawhammer coat and silk
hat she saw her Pat.
Pat caught sight Of her and, dis
mounting, Joined her.
us this the way ye're workin'?" she
asked, astonished.
Take her to the shanty," said Pat
to Fogarty. land Ocll be there direct
ly."
| Fogarty led the girl TO a five story
tenement house, where on the third
floor she was ushered into nssely
furnished apartment.
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