Evening star., 1915-01-24
AND MARY MARRIED
By SEUMAS MAcMANUS

bler's heestick, before Ireland left me eyes fif-
teen years ago, you were as full OF tricks as an
egg full O meat-and the whole world and half
O Donegal said you'd never have the good luck
to die by drownin'. The cookies O me heart
it 'ud to sparrow from home,
let alone the child of Kitty OHara You'll not
bulge from the seat you're in, Terry, till you've
reh'arsed the history, up till yesterday, of
every sinner left behind me-with me heart
in Donegal
But Mrs. O'Grady, always the generous crai-
ture who gave better than she got, enlightened
Terry, between his histories, of the well doin,
and i'll doin', of every craiture from home who
had bed or burrow Manhattan within
hundred mile of it-while her Danny, 4
hungry hawker, dhraggin the time in =
the Bethune street cellar, prayin' for his lunch
and cursin for it. N
put, M-Mary Lonergan, says Terry, with
- trif1in hesitation that Mrs. O'Grady N
obsarved by reason her tongue ratified so fast, q
shows she doin' since she to Amerikay?' 50
@Och! is it Mary?' says Mrs. O'Grady, DRAWN
mortal long breath. Don't mention that poor
girl. She's thragedy!"
"What do you mean?" says Terry in alarm.
"Nobbut ask me what don't mean, says Mrs.
O'Grady. @When Mary's poor mother (may the
Heavens this day be her bedD closed her eyes
here in the land of the black stranger, where she'd
come seekn her share of her Philadephy unces WILL
you know"
Il know" says Terry.
"-and was put away in a lonely cowld graveyard
three years ago. twas sore blow enough to poor Mary
then far from her in Ireland"
Il know it," says Terry shaking his head, Il know it"
"But," says Mrs. O'Grady, "that blow, which Mary
got (as the young heart w1l was light IN COM
Punishment with what she's sufferin' now
"A deadly disaise?' says Terry.
Deadly, yes" says Mrs. OGrady. "Shes in love-
"PheW-W-W' saws Terry. And then he added,
"Thats disaise that with crowbar couldn't
fend the girls FROM when they take the notion"
4Ay, but says Mrs. O'Grady, "'tisn't bein' head
heels in love alone that's Marys thragedy. But it
that though both Mary and the dacent boy she lost
her heart to are fadin their feet for love of
other, they must separate without marryin. Ochon!
And it's die or break her heart poor Maryn do"
And then she told Terry how when Marys mother
drawin her dyn breath here three thousand miles
from her child Mary, her disthress was what
would befall her chill who young and innocent
as she was winsome AMI might spoil her life by maxim
a foolish match.
But Mary's old aunt, Una Carrgan who owned little
candy on King street, offered that Mary wouldn't
marry any she Mrs. Carrigan, didn't heartily ap-
prove Of And Mary's mother had said:
@How you know to approve, and you
three thousand miles from the girl?'
And Mrs. Carrigan had made her answer,
@My promise before Heaven give the dyin' woman in
the land the stranger that till I've stood on lrelands
green ground again. and seen for myself the man who
wants to marry Mary and found him worthy of her,
my consent to her marryin' I'll never give. j..
4And my dyin request says Marys mother, Il
put on my child marry without your consent
And turnin' her side then Marys mother went
joyfuly to God.
AND that Terry" says Mrs O'Grady, when she got
SO far in her narration that was where the trouble
begun Mrs. Carrgan, havin child of her own sent