The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-01

ashamed of me devotion to a French
saint Maybe the History was left
out of your schooling, but I learned in
me own that the French fought for
Ireland in Ninety-eight.
well, I'll finish me story while I'm
setting the tea things; for I'd like to
get it over afore me good man comes
in to laugh at me; he's that fond of
jibing and tormentihg me about it that
it's mad with meself / am for ever
letting the secret out at ALL Well,
after long meditation l hit upon a
Frenchman; and, so as to make it
sort of easier for St. Joseph, chose
king"
"St. Joseph was just plain car
penter."
'Musha, but It's learning your cate
chism you ought to be! Wasn't st.
Joseph of the royal House Of David,
and wasn't David a King? So, to
make things sort of equal, pitched on
a King, the great st. Louis himself,
the happy father of eleven beautiful
children. Night and morning prayed
on me bare knees to him, asking him
to use his powerful intercession to
find decent husband for me. And
I'm not saying but many decent boy
did look me way; but sorra one of
them came up to me high idea of a
heaven-sent bachelor. Then, just as
l was beginning to despair, and think
ing that maybe I'd have to go to st.
Joseph after all, and that it was
just Judgment on me, who should come
making big eyes at me but young
Louis Malone, the best fisherman in
all Bundoran! I felt that the hand of
the great St. Louis was in it from the
start; for Louis is no common name
in Ireland; and sure wasn't that me
bachelors name? He was a boy after
me own heart, and took him as a
sign that ST. Joseph had no manner
of grudge agin me, but forgave me
for the sake of me pure intentions.
Still it wasn't in human nature for
me not to feel bit proud of the way
I'd kept him out of the business, and
found bachelor to me fancy through
the special providence of saint of
me own choosing. Me poor old father
was as pleased as meself
Nellie says he,n you've made a
sensible choice and no mistake. You
take after your poor mother, God rest
her! But how could you help having
luck after all the prayers you've been
Saying to st. Joseph?'"
1.-The Lord preserve u.s. says l,
growing very red. Whatever makes
you think I've been praying to st.
Joseph!'"
"'Glory be to goodness says he,
laughing outright Trust woman to
make a secret if she can't find one
ready to her hand! Sure, then, do you
think tbs stone blind I'm getting in
me old age not to see the flowers
you've been putting afore st. Joseph's
statue this long while past?"
"And sure so had; but it was only
to show st. Joseph that I was just as
fond of him as ever, and not that ]
asked him to trouble about me matri-
monial concerns. So, as / couldn't
bear even to act a lie, told me father
the true state of the case, and ex-
planned that l had given the flowers
to ST. Joseph only out of delicacy, but
that it was not he but the great St
Louis, King of France, that was work.
ing for me. And what does me father
do but tell me bachelor! And what
does he do but tell Father O'Hegarty!
And sorra a moment of peace or quiet
I had, between the three Of them, after
that. 1t was, And so you're keeping
st. Joseph out of it?' and, 'Musha, but
isn't it the proud woman you ought
to be having a grand King of France
finding husband for you! and, Sure
; tbs the clever creature you are, anC
no mistake, to settle your matrimonial
concerns without the help of st
Joseph!'
well, Kitty alanna, as you were me
bridesmaid, there's no need for me t
: be telling you about the wedding. But
as you said just now that you oh
served me emotion in the sacrist!
, after, / may as we'll make a clear
breast of it and tell you the true cause
of it, lest maybe you'd be thinking
was displeased at being happy wife
The saints between us and harm, bu
the wonder is that me emotion didn'
get the better Of me altogether, anC
that 1 didn't faint when I leaned ovel
me good mans shoulder and saw
: him write his name large as life! AND
what do you think he wrote?"
His name, | suppose"
"Arrah to be sure; but what wa!
his name"
''The same as tbs now, unless" sale
Kitty, with touch of sarcasm, things
: is different in royal arranged mar
; riages like yours, when maybe the
bridegroom changes his name as wei
as the bride"
What do you say me good mans
name is? Now, answer me that, Ca
Uterine Dunne!'
Louis Malone is his name, as al
Bundoran knows"
"Sorra a bit of it, then! Louis
: Joseph Malone is my husbands name
: and that was what he wrote in the
registry, and a fine, beautiful hand ht
} has when he goes slow.
"sArrah, what do you mean at all a
all say /, when we were outside the
} chapel is it clean daft you are to bt
after signing your name in that fash