Smyrna times., 1911-05-10
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Transformation
Involving a Dramatic Scene
on St. Patrick's Day.
By THOMAS G. O'CRADY
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation, 1911.
By THOMAS G. O'CRADY

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Pat Doolan and Maggie McShane
were a young couple living in Kill
larney town, ireland, and at the time
this story begins were not out of their |
teens. Pat was fine strapping young
fellow and good looking, though he
was so poor that his clothes were rag
ged-its not every man whose manly
beauty will show to advantage when
his bare knees are peeping through his
trousers and a tuft of his curly
hair protrudes through a hole in his
hat. But when Pat smiled that good
natured smile of his clothes were for
gotten and he was taken right into
the hearts of those he smiled upon.
AS for Maggie, she was a housemaid
In a family whose place bordered on
one of the lakes, and she was always
well dressed. She had a real Irish
complexion, as white as milk and as
red as a rose. There was so much
mingling between the white and the
red that if was impossible to tell
where the one began and the other
ended.
Pat and Maggie did a lot of walking
about together on the banks of the
lakes, and they were always noted for
the difference in their appearance,
Pats being in such marked contrast
to Maggie's. But If Maggie's clothes
we're spick and span and Pats falling
to pieces, Maggies face wore a serious
cast, while Pats was always alight.
His rags could not overcome the cheer
fulness of his disposition nor chill his
generous heart, for whenever he would
| meet any one worse dressed than him
self he would sing out:
"Arrah, bedad, man, go sell your togs
to a farmer to put up for a scarce
crow"
Then Pat would thrust his hand in
his pocket, and if by any possibility
he should find a ha'penny there he
would hand it out, saying, with a
twinkle in his eye:
go buy a new suit of clothes"
The trouble with Pat was not that
he was lazy, but that he was the kind
of young man who needed opportu-
nifty. And what opportunity was there
for him in a region where the land
had all been taken up long ago by the
gentry? Was not the road leading
around the lakes so hemmed in by the
estates of the aristocracy that the
beauty of the scenery was shut off
completely? What was a young man
to do who had neither land nor money
and whose only work-if he could get
it-would be dressing himself in livery
and waiting on master?
maggie" said Pat one day when he
and his sweetheart were sitting on the
bank of the lake near Maggie's mis-
tress' estate, "Ofm goin' to Ameriky.'
"Oh, Patr' exclaimed Maggie, hel
heart falling like the mercury in ba
rometer before a storm.
"Yes, Orm goin' to Ameriky, where
they say gold dollars as big as car
wheels are rollin' around in the street;
and all a fellow has to do is to picl
'em up. Whin Olive collected lot o.
'em Ofll send for ye."
"But, Pat, how're ye goin' to get t.
Ameriky?"
"Worruk me passage"
= ''In the cabinT
"In the cabin! What would Oh lool
! loike in the cabin in these togs? OH
go as a coal HEAVIER. Dye suppose Or
\ be dancin' around offerin' tay to tn
leddies and gintlemen whin l can ge
a much more respectable job below
And do We suppose Opll be lettin' tn
muscles of me arm grow soft whin 0
can keep 'em hardT
"But how're ye goin' to git to tn
shipT'
"Walk. What were me legs give
> me for? Shurely not for dancin', bt
cause Owe no illigant clothes,
grasshopper coat, for balls and pa
ties. Oi'll walk to Queenstown and 6
in the first ship thatn take me-"
Maggie had none of that happy-g
lucky disposition which was at II
bottom of all her lovers actions. Bl
Pats disposition was not only happ
po-lucky; he was a natural gamble
His proposed move to America SCENE
to Maggie a jump in the dark. II
was looking at the chances. The
were surely none for him in Irelan
and there might be some for him
America. Ergo. America was u
place for him. AS to his getting ther
why, any one can go anywhere.
he has to do is TO go.
On the morning before Pats depa
= ture he stood with Maggie on the ban
of the lake where they had stood
lt often before and would probably nev
stand together again. They were loo
ing out on the beautiful scenel
though it is questionable If they So
n. The mingled boughs of beech'
elms and oaks were putting on thu
summer apparel. Ivy vines spring.
<ro,, q tanqle of holly and arbut