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From 1878 till 1893, when I went round the world via America, I held the position of outside contributor on the oldest newspaper in the State, and for these 14 years I had great latitude. My friend Dr. Garran, then editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, accepted reviews and articles from me.
Hycy made him a polite bow, and replied, "One would think that joke is pretty well worn by this time, Mr. Burke. Couldn't you strike out something original now?" "All I can say is," replied the father, "that the joke has betther bottom than the garran it was made upon."
"You won't fight?" said Meehaul, with mingled rage and scorn. "No," replied the other, "I won't fight you." A murmur of "shame" and "coward" was heard from those who had been drawn together by their quarrel. "Dher ma chorp," they exclaimed with astonishment, "but Lamh Laudher's afeard of him! the garran bane's in him, now that he finds he has met his match."
A groan for the Protestant parson, father darlin'!" Bravo, Mr. Lucre! That ditch was well cleared!" "Devil a purtier, father jewel! Parra Gastha's a darlin', and brought you over like a bird hurra!" "Have you no whip, Mr. Lucre? Whip and spur, sir, or the Popish garran will be in before you. By the great Boyne, I'm afraid the charger's blown." "God enable you, father avilish! Blown!
One day he went to this fellow, riding on an ould garran, with a shoe loose the only baste he had in the world and axed him, for God's sake, to give him of what he owed him, if it was ever so little; 'for, says he, 'I huve not as much money betune me and death as will get a set of shoes for my horse."
At length there was something like a pause, and several voices shouted out "what the divil do you mane, Tom?" "He's showin' the garran bane at last," shouted another "desartin' his colors!" "oh! we're gintlemen now it seems, an' not his own blaggards, as we used to be Tiper-to'e's vagabones that stood by him oh no! Tom, to hell wid you and your gintlemen three cheers for Gully Preston!"
Money and time did it, but folk thought that it grew with him, as did his hair and his nails. And he always rode a horse which charmed good judges of what a park nag should be; not a prancing, restless, giggling, sideway-going, useless garran, but an animal well made, well bitted, with perfect paces, on whom a rider if it pleased him could be as quiet as a statue on a monument.
David, a charming and well-read woman, whose book describing an expedition to Funafuti, is delightful. We afterwards dined with her and Professor David, and spent a pleasant hour with them. I was not neglectful of other reforms while on this campaign, and found time to interest myself in the State children's work with which my friend, Mrs. Garran, was so intimately connected.
The late Dr. Andrew Garran, who was on The Register when I went to England, had moved to Sydney in my absence, and was on the staff of The Sydney Morning Herald. When Miss Clark went to England in 1877, after her mother`s death, Dr. Garran wrote to me for some account of our methods, and of their success, physical, moral, and financial. Dr. Garran came out with Mr.
* Garran a horse; but it is always used as meaning a bad one one without mettle. When figuratively applied to a man, it means a coward "The impulse which faction fighting gives to trade and business in Ireland is truly surprising; whereas party fighting depreciates both.
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