Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-06
Continued From Last Weekly

ouG OF their own country by the Eng
lish an become wanderers on the
face of the earth, am nothin' they
ever earn II make up to them for the
separation from their homes an their
loved onesw! She finished the perora-
ton on a high note and with a forced
manner such as she had frequently
heard on the platform.
She smiled at the astenished Jerry
and asked him:
"Do We know what that is n,
4 haven't the least idea" he an
swered truthfully.
That's out of n Of me fathers
speeches. He father makes. grand
speeches. He makes them in the cause
Of Ireland
"Oh, really! In the cause of Ire
land, Ell? r. said Jerry.
eyes. He's been strugglin' all his
life to make Ireland free, to get her
home rule, We know. But the English
are SO ignorant. They think they know
more than me father. If they'd do
what me father tells them sure there'd
be no more thronble In Ireland at all
eReallyf' said Jerry quite interest.
eddy.
Not a bit of throuble. I wish me
father was here to explain it to We.
He could tell We the whole thing in a
couple Of hours. I wish he We're here
now just to give you ar example of
what fine speakin' really is. Do you
like speeches."
Every much sometimes replied
Jerry guardedly.
""Me father is wonderful on d plat
form with a lot Q, people in front of
him. Hes WONDERFUL. I've seen him
take two or three hundred people who
didn't know they had a grievance in
the w~urrid-the poor cratures-they
were Just contented to go on bein'
ground down an trampled on an they
not KNOWN athing about tive seen
me father take that crowd an in five
minutes aftler he had started spakin'
10 them We wouldn't know they were
the same people. They were all shout.
I'M at once, an they had murtler in
their eye, an it WINS blood they were
afther. They wanted to refortn4sornes
thin they weren't IRE wlaat-but they
wanted to do it, an at the cost of life.
Me father could have led them any
where. It's d wonderful power he was.
Do We like hearin' about me father?'
she asked Jerry suddenly, ! n case she
was firing him.
Jerry FASTENED to assure her that he.
,u,c rnallv mnsfEinterested.
well, so long as yer not tired I'll
tell ye some more. Ye know went
ali through Ireland when i was a child
with me father In a cart. An the po
lice an the ~constabulary used to fol
low us about. They were very fright.
ened of me father. they were. They
were grand days for me. Ye're Eng
fish. mebbe 2' she asked him suddenly.
II am said Jerry. He almost felt
Inclined to apologize.
Well, sure that's not your fault. Ye
couldn't help it. No one should hold
that against re. We can't all be born
irish
sim glad you look at 1t SO broad
mindedly,s said Jerry.
She stood restlessly q moment, her
hands beating each other alternately.
II get SO lonesome for me father
she said.
Suddenly, with a tone Of definite re-
solve III her voice, she started to the
stairs, calling over her shoulder:
sI'm goin' back to him now. Good
byrv
ferry Followed her, pleading insist
emily:
wait! Please waltz
She stopped and looked at him:
sGiye us Il months trial-one
month"; he urged TT Will be very
little out of gour life, an I promise
you your father Will not suffer through
it except III losing you for that one
little month. Willyou? Just q month";
He spoke SO earnestly and seemed
so sincerely pained and SO really con
cerned It her going that she came
down a few steps and looked at hin
irresoluteiy
why do you want me 70 stayYs she
asked him.
Observation-Disclosures your late uncle
was my friend ut was his last wist
to do something for you. VIII yon'
Just d month";
She struggled with the desire TO 81
away from a4IS that was SO foreign anf
distasteful to her. Then she looked q
ferry and realized, with something akfI
ii feeling Of pleasure TINT he wa
intending with her to stay and doing i