Evening star., 1915-01-24

"Let me Sec says Terry, lookin up the ballroom
ceilin', and scratchin' his head.
"Hal Hal Ha! Hal" laughed Mary turnin' to
Martin "Thats you all the worl over Breakin'
hearts aisy you would candysticks-and as
aisy forgettin it! The last time ye Terry was
the night of Nabla O'Fries weddin when you walked
home through the Thrush's Glen, the oveliest,
sweetest moonlight night that the kind Lord ever
shook from His hand. Now do We mind it?'
"To be sure mind it, says Terry reprovinly. "If
moidhered fellow gets mixed in his minory for minute
in your prisence, Mary who's to blame?"
@Hear to the rascal" says Mary, turnin' to Martin.
II of his three hundred and sixty-fve girls
and the villain even hasn't the memory of it.
aye the one, Mary gradh," says Terry, with
that look of his that failed to fusther the girls
hearts, and at the time twnkn the tail of his other
eye upon Martin who enjoyn the teasin of Mary.
Says Mary to Martin, with twinkle Il the girl,
Martini and every soul of the other three hun
dred and sixtyfour. We each knew it, says she. ave
had Terrys word for it
SINCE they bade goodby to the Hills O. Home
there had ever witnessed dance. And when
twas at its height Danny O'Grady in his workin'
clothes appeared at the door calm for Terry OHara
and some other able-bodied help him fetch in
somehn that he said would lift the hearts of every soul
present. and take years off their shoulders to
And Terry then explained to the overjoyed gatherin
that Danny bringn them barrel O sods from the
side O. Dhrore Hill at home, fetched all the way to
Amer1kay to obl1ge Johnny McDermott the head o the
Ancient Order of Hbernans in Scranton, where they
wanted for fair that should raise money for the
Manchester Martyrs Monument. II knew" says
Terry that twoud be the treat lives to set the
soes O your feet again upon bit of 1rean' (may the
kind Lord forever bliss IT'D"
And that houseful cheered till the walls cracked;
and the cheer neither ceased paused while the
sods were comm in and bein' set down in beautiful
square upon the floors middle. And it needed every
strong young fellow the hold the crowd from
tryin to put three hundred feet square yard sod
all together. Hold back with yous says Terry, "or
I'll make mush of someone's skull with this straw BY
rights he said "the honor and privilege O first standn
them should fall to the venerable lady present
yourself Mrs. Carrigan"
And with shout the gathering agreed. Breathless
with excitement, and her heart thumpin her ribs like
dhrumstick, Una Carrigan helped onto the green
ground-and the instant she it she Strengthened
like soer, threw back her head, and drew long
BREATH while the color that had gone out of her cheeks
a generation ago begun coursin like hound and hare
her wrinkled countenance again.
"Och! OCH" she said "Och! Och!" for of speech
to express herself Then she drew another long BREATH
same as she might she found herself standin the
ridge of Dhrimore Hill and the eye of her frightened,
like the eye of youngster "Boys! Boys! Boys!' she
said @Isnt it wonderful? Isn't glor yus? There's
och such eein' shoots all through every inch ye-
och och och-the instant your foot touches the bssd
sod! Och! Och! If you to tramp this sod in
Chnay dead man could tell it bit of ould Ire
land Glory be- I'll die happy after this night Terry,
Terry OHara do you know where on the Hill of Dhri-
more this was cut?'
an the southermost corner of Eddie Quinns Fairy