The Daily Missoulian., 1917-08-12

have taken the skin OFF my back II
IA ever let on to have any other King
than parnell.
Then the conversation takes on an
emphntically Irish tone. The general
begins. ttf
sir Pearcc trising painfully shocked,
Your mother What are YOU dream
ing about. n'Elnhrrty" A most loyal
woman. Always most loyal. When
! ever there has been an Illness IN TN.
royal family she has asked me every
time we met about the health or the
patient rs anXiously as II II had been
yourself, her only son.
oflahortv Wrll she's my mother:
and won't utter II word agen her.
'lt I'm not saying word or 10 when
! tell YOU that tha, old woman IL the
| biggest kanatt from here to the cross
of Monast"rhoicc. sure she's the wild.
est fehian and rebel, and always has
be"n that ever taught a poor Innocent
lhd likc myself to pray night and
morning to st Patrick to clear tho
English out of Ireland the same az
he cleared the snakes. You'll be sur
prised at my telling YOU that now.
maybe, Sir Pcarce?
S'T leafce tunablc TO Keep still,
walking away from OE1ahcrty)--
Surprised! I'm overwhelmed. (Turn.
ing and facing him.) Arc you---are
YOU joking
o'tlahcrty--lf you'd been brought
up by my mother, sir. you'd know bet
ter than to joke about her. What I'm
telling you is the truth; and l wouldn't
tell II to you If | could Bec my way TO
get out of the fix III be in when m,
mother comes here this day to see he,
boy In his glory, and she after think.
ing all the time 1t was against the
English | was fighting
Sir Pearcc--Do YOU mean to say Won
told her such "a monstrous fulsohood
as that you w"r" fighting In tho Ger.
man army? a.
oFlaherty--l never told her ono
word that wasn't the truth and moth.
inG but the truth. told her was
going to fight for the French and for
the Russians; and sure, who ever hea rd
Of tn" French or the Nnssians doing
anything to the English but fight inc
them? Tha, was how II was. air.
Ana sur" the poor woman Kissed me
and went about tn" house singing In
III
was on Ia" say, and they'd be here
without delay, and the Orange wouh
decay, says the Shan Van Vocht.
sir P"arce tsitting down again, .cx.
hausted Ivy his feelings We'll, ] never
could have believed this. Never. What
do y"u suppose will happen when she
finds out" -
oflhhcrty-Shc mustn'i ttnd out
It's not that she'd half kill me. as big
as am and as brave as I am It's
that I'm fond Of her, and can't bring
myself to break the heart in her. You
may think 1t queer that a man should
be fond of his mother, sir. and she
having beat him from the time she
could lecl to the time she was too slow
to catch him; but Pm fond OF her, and
I'm not ashamed of it. BESIDES. didn't
| she win the cross for me"
Sir T"arcc-ilow? r.' r.
| OFlahcrty-By bringing me up Ia
be- more afraid of running away than
| of fighting. ] was timid by nature:
and when the other boys hurted ma
ia want to run away and cry. Hut
she whalcd me for disgraciilo the blood
Of the O'tlahertys. until I'd havs
fought the divil himself sooner than
face her after funking a fight. That
was how | got to know that fighting
was easier than it looked. and that ,tho
| others was rs much afeard of me a. !
was of them, and that II / only head
out long enough they'd lose heart sapd
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