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Jim Sulivan was a dacent, honest boy as you'd find in the seven parishes, an' he was a beautiful singer, an' an illegant dancer intirely, an' a mighty plisant boy in himself; but he had the divil's bad luck, for he married for love, an 'av coorse he niver had an asy minute afther.
Th' Spanish admiral shoots at him with a bow an' arrow, an' goes over an' writes a cable. 'This mornin' we was attackted, he says. 'An' he says, 'we fought the inimy with great courage, he says. 'Our victhry is complete, he says. 'We have lost ivrything we had, he says. 'Th' threachrous foe, he says, 'afther destroyin' us, sought refuge behind a mud-scow, he says; 'but nawthin' daunted us.
"'They've named a perfume afther ye, a shirt waist, a paper collar, a five cint seegar, a lot iv childer. Nay more, a breakfast dish christened f'r ye is on ivry lip. Will I forward th' soot collect? he says. "'No, sind th' bill to me mother, says th' boy. 'An' meet me in th' park at tin, he says. "So 'tis planned to seize th' throne, but it comes to nawthin'." "Why's that?" asked Mr. Hennessy.
Wan week afther th' swear-off he came fr'm th' field with th' pipe in his face, an' him puffin' away like a chimney. 'Terrence, says me mother, 'it isn't Easter morn. 'Ah-ho, says he, 'I know it, he says; 'but, he says, 'what th' divvle do I care? he says. 'I wanted f'r to find out whether it had th' masthery over me; an', he says, 'I've proved that it hasn't, he says.
"Go on, Maggie." "'I am now, however, at the end of my rovin's," read the child, "'an' you'll be glad to hear that I am just afther gettin' married to a very nice young lady, with a good bit o' money of her own. I have also contrived to save a tol'rable sum, an' am now lookin' forward to a life of contentment an' prosperity in the company of my bride." "That's Larry," exclaimed Mrs.
"God be thanked," exclaimed the delighted father, "sure it's comfort to hear that, any how afther all the pains and throuble we've taken wid him, to know it's not lost.
"Begorrah, the joke's too much ag'inst meself, sor, for me to be afther tillin' the story too often!"
But, sure, gerrls has no courage " Barnet's smile was again one of wintry superiority. "Willy Fennessy and Patsey Crimmeen was afther seein' it too last night," went on Mrs. Griffen, "an' poor Willy was as much frightened! He said surely 'twas a ghost. On the back avenue it was, an' one minute 'twas as big as an ass, an' another minute it'd be no bigger than a bonnive "
'Whin ye get through with ye'er barkin', says I, 'I'll throuble ye to tell me what ye may be doin' it f'r, I says. 'I see nawthin' amusin' here but ye'er prisince, I says, 'an' that's not a divvle iv a lot funnier than a wooden leg, I says, f'r I was mad. Afther awhile he come to, an' says he: 'Ye don't raally think, says he, 'that ye'll get a chanct to spring that platform, he says.
"Do?" said Martin; "why, what should you do but just wish Mr Daly good morning, and stay where you are, snug and comfortable?" "Av' you war to lave this, Anty, and go up to Dunmore House afther all that's been said and done, I'd say Barry was right, and that Ballinasloe Asylum was the fitting place for you," said the widow.
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