The Exeter Times, 1886-8-26, Page 7PETERTATRICE.
Peter.Patrlek O'lleini a came
down,
of
ono
November morning, int a o deo of hof
naives (he had to take that ot of h
,elder brothers °ombteebj, > short and butter,
abort of tenure, i hort of b ad a t "bite'
short of everything in to F
--or, an Mre. O'Rourke
lemma
e
f tersely
y
e
scribed hie advent,
Atilth x o t greet
btathern' biys 1"
°ewe into a world of crusts and gristle
d bonea, beatngs and eeoldings end eerff
aa hunger and rage, and etrelgirt-
wa,evict g W
way let out
to'drew a robust tach every deT
of his life on them, until as old." h,
e father (there were' three Vetere in . the
the
family), exclaimed," The pis in the pin,
and the wades in the garden hadn't a allow oe
beside e' him E Ana when Mrs
with equal antimony, had rho him to ped
gather tomo' garments for hie need, loll it
seemed. at a week; before there were hie
deer out
s han is away
a
arm g g
bare
1
p_
F to
ofth
um
an
equal l
enema P 8
of than, arith q
bone and',rnusele showing
thane between the
of his Wetmore and
dilapid-
ated parodies on leather, called his "shoes."
Then nature trleked him out with such
redundant orep of tight-re
oaurling red or vaa
though she hadnt a y ',appliedlted that
O'Reorke brothers plentifully
material, and his eye had a asapimmt t lie day
ke a
live octal, and the wear
iest couldn't wilt the roses in Me cheek, and his
teeth made no more of cracking the hard
shell of a walnut than
the
ey did of die l sin
themselves in a broad
wbleh was the normal attitude el hie fea-
tures, for that matter.
Mirth and mi.ohfef mixed in generanely
with the abuse showered en him through the
week, the ktokngs and thrashings manifold ;
and then, of a Sunday, to stand up in the
church at the head of all the choirboys, he
-the a ]talo choir a surplice
lland gratitude to
ut en over
his rods --rolling
God in a vain note inhit 1at Loud andle husky er
awe'et and
faltering
clear, clear above all the rest ; tie that the
choirmaster loved him, as he listened,
though he bad to thresh him very often, at
the rehearsals, too,
ter, and looked hank. "X,00k *here 1 you
sit," he cried angrily. You Peter•Patrlck,
O'ltoorke, tomo hero 1"
Voterel'atrrok turned, blushed affably,
took eft his Dnp, and approached, very rorty
that the honorable goutlemabaok but Mase
lneensed birehero wee
by looking
bull..In the field
totePet l it there wee a m inteinside the
meter -Penick would far rather
leenark than out, a e ad
"" ou good-for.nothiDK miser bl p
d ; exolaamed the Hon, John, in high dud-
geon, mlok
bym
i
g
con, "what do gee mean
met"
"Dade thin I Pies ter honor's pardon,"'
said Peter.Petrlok, with. ,weet•tsugued
moderation " 1£ yen'll belave me, I wass
.only jfet adhmirn' o' yer bettor's illeg ennt
*threw 'Dena and it 'la be a sorry eight
a grend nd gintiemaa like yerel f, as
melto d a immiu' in hie own money if
meld go a and clip' all the bighent of-
fices
cines, and haul as they all
to -and that,
t
inthe
8aee
Sic
sa to the glowry of it -end tit std river
a
win to Ira 1 Feith an' if: I'd me euoh a
one, I wouldn't bo betavin' im any Outlet -
men at all 1 Be dad thin, I have a little
etbrut et' me own, " sore," Perteriok
it
concluded modestly, though ofcourse,„
don't Dome anyways up to. yer honohr honorable
Spite of all he could de, the o..
gentleman realized that all resentment to-
wards Peter. 'atriok war” melting away in
his bosom. The °ornery of hie mouth twitch-
ed up weakly, to teach you " I'll tell your father
man-
ners,on young impudence 1" he managed
to blare out, againet his yearning oonsolenoe.
Peter-tatriak laughed again. " Weel
weal, " he added, "but I'm only fearin the
ould man aln t got many to taohe, All the
better look, yer ,honer, for I get' a more
free-like, ye see, plokin' 'em up en the
ethxil grin Peter•Patrlak re-
turned his nd
And with a gena
e of the
ruddy ours overgitis lleft earto , and oentinued
on his way
But the oeheolnra ter tidli retained , his
hand; " And more than that, ¢tx, yea throwWs
down ]dr. Charley, Orarav li as
hurrying on hie waY bele, and beet hire,
himtheere for a netdiaary
Vearaing. lie use. 'Pate sat like death e"
that gilded little sleigh, with It resift
fns, belpiess land ; sad with a feed
death, Charley Granville threw himself ed
from the steerer s seat behind ---no be might
• lank,
Withphiee
other s e an Aa
BALTIL
in f3mnl-Pgxe
T4 Avofd 00040"
I On the ere" apps , ea etataern se,
the patient,hoold be. F lrsr e
and stele from oxo
his mother had written save hlwsef# with hie. a entrant, as ne•►r thq top of the housb
tsxdiness 'which Pdtez Fatriok returning wl F p
n at the foot of the posstbie, from whish ourtaiaa, asipe f Inc.
ds
me had reached the etosst g ao in t and other noodles% article],
on all of e. sudden Pato, '
hill. In one brief instant ho marked h , g g ' e removed, and no parson ex'
Th himself up, and' hie lip curled,
straightened his keen eye the slight level the lust the nit t the medical atndau0 ad the nurse er
and think It was a verb the look that.. ld d w what he a°old dv, oepth r should be permitted to enter the
i ' hi not vangoful, not re.
With outstrotahed arms, yours giant. mo
held
only of %ilea at>1 rd leapedthe trial to watt scant of nor
vealing anything-4msashed far'wa +, containing a %olr;tnn
tempt :and he hold hie hand or br1t - th t din crabbing' load, that precious, A basin con ng
l r i of sin shrink- a p " wan oedd leroed belie acid or chloride ef lime should be placed
word without one Olga bel loss load ; the iron e h p ant to s It in.
. 1 }v and p b rred be for the patient R
to after b • , d hold It a near the d p
1tAlleging b wrsoetvo _ it, >
in gtithe.,
receiving g'r b oa t -•b
a gied
a h rs
ra
,be .
g 1 net e
- hon.t 1 ud
i o
wit w h l
whim it waft ever, quietly turned, it from death, with hie broken arra, i
, flandkerohfefr a wl rn
} i ae of colt rsgn i t d, ler R iz
WW1 e
tient E F
r.- el rielt
• name, a a a eyes,
a Word, and tank bre stat. oo.room hie" bieeiling and uneeluddeue breatt.
Thew) wan one heat in the .sob Aye, the were saved and Peter Pat
-
with
y
e nn ee
p ice afar be
poet of the pa ,
p
that the ewe leered to follow up all day, riclay with quiet, upturned face in .the
o Ilan ,blinding and signed and with that glory en his head,
ith a u Y=shim)
glare, % sea book:'
w
to 1
This
But naw of a al a ady had morning,
cuffing from
old ehaving from Mee. 0 Reinke,
old Peter, and .% rating
osening sole of his thee
witha the fast•, drew a bush through his
with a few -string,
hair, which therefore only purled back on
Koff s. the
jauntily off over one esteak what ar, thrust hleft to is
hands in hie pookett,aduke started
trtit being col
with the ab of a grand
pos,ible for anyone with
se much gladness
him
of heart not to h there n
t had been assigned h he 1 t pen his desk at echos .
to •Patriok When be took out hie F I am not sorry that
Fe x
or his elate, letters and °figures shone all my
ht
he sunlight
maze eft g
bite ma
alike in the w
But he could eee to whittle out tops d h
as when a ep o he Will should be kept for the use o a
a ss a will be dotted by
For gopars, work,nor need • wheat kande, of In one hand:
.h
never down to jacket
t; f foro ndd a the aeoretions of the patient.ed with
e e ,that f indeed -it m meg water abound be impYegnat
chats rut n w 1as .n the..
btaint
p the nth
mange oh
ai
f h
e s life w
g e b
h re . d
that there h rr
ala ,Y
e
rl od
to
C
e Paor
et r +a
PPlatt's at Y
Pl
on the hands may at enae be removed.
4. A plentiful supply of water and towels
fth nP
tee,
When Bernhardt is away' from the Conw9
die 1'ranoatee-the management iind it very'
hard to make things pay. re and the
Sohliemann, the explorer of Trey
discoverer of the tomb of Agamen►loen, is an
old Californian, and used to buy gold; duet
o to away back in the Slush
in the g,oran► n
Wino,
donna of she
Mao. Fides D vrie;r, prima receive BQ,tlt!ti<
Grand Opara et Paris, a to r
franoe for ten nlghte next 00anrn . ut Monte
Carlo. This 1e perhaps better than marry.-
ing a poor clerk and washing dither,
Dr, Ralph Leslie, 0 the University 0
Toronto, Canada, and St, Thornes h o tA t
London, has been de°orated with t for
of weopold by the Hing of the Belgians,
hie ,orviees en the tipper Congo.
shame ut►de, the shadow of his dock, al It always to throw away in deeds like tides
sharpened sate pencils for them al .. But when he lay, with his arra
folded, was : "Please, sir, may I go to Petcoften, 1 in hie' white grave.olothee and bis featur
whenriok to s day g w long, pencil 2 Butoks ao fine and peaoi fel in the clustering hair
theddown sbanntoter deekok that had been growing dark of late, they
was joist wonderful,
Fla the y hie desk, ft
p glorythat sunlight bacon to tee open bit face something 0 that
was jun isteddy s 1 beauty which the painter saw. a little.
mala in his ruddy maks 1 for sleeping, They bore him into the ohuroh for
pet hip ed to gat shipped awhile too, and the chotr.beys sang over
and whipped Yon not ecu when he at ivad we to him. Bat the aheir•master's heart wan bit -
May
in and ams, an h e 9° afterwards ter. Their voices ware 1111 husky, faltering,
for In at roams, he and committed
weak, There was no voice there new for
for we to go c And when
when he was 'him, He did net think how Peter•P+trick
allo
end oldd to to ant, And the hegot home, had learned some ringing notee beyond h0 e
and tPeter asked himganypreliminary
to scale, but only that there was no voioe 1
eohoo1, t Weal Pater -did yeh" now for him.
P&trto the day, with, daddy, Y y sadPeter' The Hon. John Granville and the honor -
thin jeanswever omitting to
didn't: I
as it would be a worthy and appropriate sot
jlet!" never omitting to make cheerful .able badge Granville, brothers, agreed that
mention, so near as he could remember, to at upa monument to the memory of
to the apo rule, m'nnmbor a rid Peter, ao. Peter-Pariek, with some inscription ex-
plication
oto rule, made another forcible ap-preseive 0 the brave manner in which he
pit So, of of the rod. had met his death. Bat a threatened de-
boys,Ss, often attar the rehearsal °f the choir- premien. in oertain stooks made it neoearary
. er the vestry, theohaetiand for the for then to make some change in invest -
makings
the ole clan i and mischief- tef menta ; and I am happy to say that, like the
makings of whole cies e, fell toter• rest, the "forgot" is,
Patrick's unshrinktng shoulders t simply be• rest,
e P forgot"
is. 's neglected Knave a
blued the photo point
of sin there nom- Fslender alder and a sweet wild -thorn bush
brood deemed to point book for a ter sponsor- have sprung tip and in the wild and windy
to theillumination afforded by Peter,P ht they lean against each
i k's radiant grin.
And as he went on with ever-Inoreasing
jubilance of heart, le 1 a little sandp tailed fled
deg came out of an alley way,
affeotionately about Me heels, o et e dog's
rick looked around to see if any g'
quondam tormenters were in sight and sat-
iefied that there was no call for immediate
venend
into hie pocket and drew forth a crust, eance on that soon, thrust hie hsav-
ed from hie own scanty breakfast. This,
the deg, having, like Peter. Patrick, been
imposed upon a community short of provi-
sions, devoured greedily, Oh, but the bat-
tles PeeterPetrlok had fought in defeuse of
that miserable aur 1 battles upon battles,
of eld ;time. Well, "there was es peonilar
quality of hardness in PeterPatrick n fists.
The dog had suffered little hazing ;of late.
He never followed his benefactor home,
They beth understood that. al-
b rettie° Bald
ova,
"s®nae sth'sle about him,"
5. Outside the door of the sick a sheet
sh°nld be 'impended so dasb to
cover
the en•
tire doorway ; this Ghoul p
ly wet with a solution of line. The effeof ct
of this wail be to keep every F
house free from infeotior: bowels and kid-
6. The diaobar'gss of the wets a d into
neyt of the patient should be
veesole charged with disinfectants, such as
the solation of oarbellc acid or chlorideof
lime, and immediately rear vod. internee
meant the poison thrown off
endues may be rendered inert, and deprived
of the power of propagating diseaee.e
self imprassed it, before the house of ready one toe many ,
ive him stolen signs of affection en the
Fie stop ea an usual on the hill, to .
the Hon, John Granville, up
tarn somersaults for the delight
unlike of poor
little Barney Granville who,
eter-
Patrick, didn't row. Unlike
enough triiookk
too,' there had been jackets
d
trousers enough, of the tineet °loth, waiting
g
tannin, sada the
rest andmeats housesndand col-
legest
sand now he
legal a horses and what not,s though he
grew se weakly and ;tardily,
could never °etch up with him.
But Barney thought it was as geed as a
peter brought to performwn there, nstanding to eee
on
PaterPatribk p
hie head, and patching mend le in idside
turning himself wrongup
out, all for Barneeee benefit, and onearing
the big gate at het with a bound : "Come
now, Mather Barney, and have a ride on me
shouldthere1"
Barney screamed with delight se the nurse
hand td. him out thronga the window to
Peter atrtok who, netting him on his ehonl-
dere; •forthwith trotted and neighed and
cantered, and pawed the earth with bis
feet -the meet villaineuely restive horse
ded Mra at
last, after a deepereteat ever married rrun, safe uin again at
the window,
" You'll be lata at school again, this
morning, won't you, eer.Patrtok 1"said
litlte'Barney, sympathetically,
" Ooh thin," said Pater -Patrick, cheer.
fully, " wait till they onoet have me there
airly i Faith, that 'ud be aenaethin' worth
apakin' of, Misthei Barney."
"" I wonder what makes It so hard for
you to learn!"
"" Sure, I don't knew," said Peter -Patrick
politely attempting to look intereated ;
"' the blatherin larnin'l Faith it won't get
into the head o' me, nohow."
"" I think it's so easy to learn," seta little
Barney., his delicate fa1eedshoowiinnd g gold -bound
a
background of many
volumes at the ether end of the rlohly•fur•
Walled room. gentle
Poter•Paoriok looked at him with g
tie, large•souled admiration.
"And wodldn't I like though jilt to have
the tearnin; o' ee / Miather Barney," he ex-
claimed eloquently.
This made little Barney very happy, and
Mrs. Granville, whe was tilting
in the
the
room, also looked up with p
blowzy, glowing face outside the window.
"I wonder," the thought, " if he wouldn't
like a pie. Sneh great rough boys always
do like pies ;" but her eeametrets enteral g
the room at that moment to ask her, some
question, she forgot all about it.
" Will yon get puniehod again, to -day P'
asked little Barney gravely,
"And do ye thlertPatrick nk it'll be only wan ave vent to a mirthf 1 skin'
I'll be getthi the day, Miather Barney 2
Faith, yo might hould up all thea inners''
ers o'
yer too little white hoods, and y
have enough to be namin"em But don't
,- 10 that be troublin' the darlln'. heart o' ye..
My hide's that tough flet, I don't falo'em
-noi,
Wet all, at all. Sure thee pelt off n me like the
rain -wether offs duck. And I think some
e' *tee ought to be handin' In a 011, for
givin' me so: much wallopn' fret 1 Don't
ye hear e' wan and another goin'off to the
cures, to git their poor bodies. exercised
list by peondin' and wallopn assthey pay
the doethore a big prise for del& of 2 Lord
known, Miather Barney, as I feel jist that
grateful -=-bilin too poor ndade to pay the
doother--to git eo much wallopin' free."
Aoknewledging with another o 1 u heartofroerr
the honor done him by g
leddles, Peter•Petrlck, with a nod, atuel
his cap off ever the other ear, and eaantered
on down the avenue.
So he mot the Hon. John Granville re.
turning home trona hie morning walk to the
Grativille s corpuleat
little poraen na ngr alng booming with a miinoing
though pompoue tread that alerted with
oath emphatic little step, I own the town,"
"I own the the town:" awed as he supped.
Him having madly paned,
eel, Peter.Patrick thrust back his early
head, pxotrudcd' what was in 'fad a very
empty stemaoh, and, imitated of his own fret
swagger, proceeded derive this thoroughfare
with a moat atrtliing and lifadike reproduce
tion of the Hon.' Jehn Granville's g
and affected watt, to the "watt edification of
the passers-by, as well au the ireeprosoihle
delight of Homoeervent girls at ,the upper
windows.
The honourable gentleman hoard laugh.
street and that was a tomfert.
It was Peter•Patrlok's habit, when he
reaohed the culvert, to leave the main
thereugbfere and take a new route by crawl-
ing through that dark and interesting pass-
age en his hands and knees 1 and thence
by a path along the cliff to the expsaed
trestle -work el the railroad some twenty feet er mere above terra firma,
hewae ao0uatomed to pursue hie way by leap-
ing along the outmostrails 0 thebridge. And
though the distance to school was by these
means, considerably inoreate , adventure
at ' other there,
a night r o and It makes a arena -not of polished and
Yet the lad couldn't hia bre breast,
but t as ohiselled marble Indeed, but rugged, thorny,
out,tie orh a cap a his bar&hobnebbin sharp, like the one Christ died on; and in
with with or cap .ever his ear, g the wild and windy, night, where no foot
with forgiving,
world, the next 011, Paloving, asses, the infinite multitude ef stars look
forgiving, forgetting.iy Peter Patrick 1 down, and the behold it.
y
So much for an ordinary day. There
were extraordinary, ones ; days net only of
enamel whippings, but of unoeualdv n -
A. correspondent 0 the C'ork Excbminee
• "" men the > etnlfartties of the ex.
hubs, A g F , eta of
hibite at the • Colombo, are speoim
Canadian literature sent by the Government
hooky, Mrs.
s
Four o by
,
that count
b
country, of
Alexander ,toss, the well known and gifted
authoress ' of some charming works, are ore
hI
as
ase
view. A glance at thea, whin FP
are selected as illustrative types of the
Canadian literaryteudenay, shows that the
os the water are joining in the
people nor din which le either tee ".
reaction against reeding
light er tee teohnioal. I understand that
Mre. Resit originally bailed from the mother
unt . She. intends to publish shortly la
0o tY
London: a work entitled, ,The Red Man,
dedicated by permission to the Duke of
Connaught."
The Winnipeg .Free Press says: "Php
Gartman, who was sentenced to seven years
in,prieonment for oomplioity in the rebellleri
of 18S5, was released from Stony Mountain
penitentiary a day or two ago. He is new
In town, but:will ,bortly leave for the Prov
ince ef Qnebeo. He prepeees writing a his-
tory of the rebellion from the standpoint of
the rebel. As he acted at seoretery for Louis
Riel after the lamented break-up of the
Hon. Mr. Jackson's mind until the wind-up
of the rebellion at Batoabe, he will be able
to peesrnt the other side of the story bitter
than any other person. Since hie release
he ban been purohaaing the published ao-
counts of the rebellion, inoleding Mrs. De.,
laney's and Mrs. Gewanlook's accounts of
their capture. He say It int all ha those
rebellion
Im-
prisoned for taking P
have now been sot at liberty excepting
those from the vicinity ef Fort
Pitt,theheaded
a prima
by Big Bear, and they exp
doors will ehertly be opened to thein."
Mr. Stuart Cumberland, of mind-readng'
fame, has arrived at Victoria, B. 0,, for the,
purpose of writing an account of the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway relate1or varteue,jour-
nate who have engaged his services. Mr.,
Cumberland ter Boma years peat has devoted'
himself to politica, and it is bis desire tet
meted -
ally noernon a edliInal career. the matterHe is ef Imperial
Federation. Before coming to Canada he
anent some months n Australia and New
Zealand. Previous to this he visited Egypt,
and he was made the bearer of a message
from the 'Khedive to Lord Dufferin en his
departure for India. While in India Mr.
Cumberland was the great of the leading
native ve a
public mance efor the benefit and in ief thefundcutta he anew
being reload by the Viceroy and Lady Bul-
letin for supply mg female medical aid to the
women et India. Mr. Cumberland will
toke a theImpport of erial andlColoeialies in Centel*
Governments,
in addition to his contributions to the
7. The garments and bed °Whin ef the
Molt should be placed in a dleirifeating fluid
until belled in the waeh. Such a fluid may
be mule time : Dissolve together in water
In the proportions of four eunoes of the zinc
sulphate and two ounoes ef salt to the gallon
of water.
steeple-for
tures, by river, bridge, and reepeot unto his lite but that he believed it tasted human fiesh will henceforth ta.ke no
Old hunters vay that the tiger which has
Peter•Patrick eitemed not to have so much
to be a conemedity very plenty, and that he
This valuable premise in water treatment
may be briefly deacrthed as follows : Have
ready two or three comfortables or thick
blenkets, one woolen Minket, and a large
linen or cotton sheet, It is important to be
certain that the sheet is auffiolently large to
extend twice around the patient's body.
Mere blankets aae required in °eel weather
than in warm, although the pack ahead be
taken in a reem at temperate heat. Spread
upon a bed er straight, bread lounge the
wanfertablee, oneby one, making them even
at the top. °vet them spread the woolen
blanket, eelowbag its upper edge to fall an
inch or two below that of theleet corotort-
able, Wet the sheet in water of the proper
temperature, wring out so that it wIll not
drlp, then gather the ends eo that it mai be
quickly spread out. Now place its upper
end even with the woolen blanket, and
sprees! it out en each side 0 the middle
anffielently te allow the patient to lie down
upon kis back, whiola he should quickly do,
letting hie ears come just above tbe upper
border of the sheet, and extending his limbs
near ttigether.• Wrap the patient snugly,
carefully first with the sheet and afterward
with the blanket, taking care to exelude
from the neok to the toes, After the bath
give the patient a cool or tepid sponge bath,
or a wet thorn rub, and he will probably feel
greatly refreshed and invigorated. Tela
forra 0 bath le particularly useful in &seams
of a febrile type.
No Armour for the Back.
Let me advise yen to weartno armour for
your back when yen have determinecl to
follow the track of truth. Receive upon
your breast -plate of righteenenees the sword•
cuts of your adversaries ; the stern metal
shall turn the edge 0 your feeman's weapon.
Let the right be your lord paramount, and
for the rest be tree and your own muter
et% Follow the truth for its own sake ;
follow her in evil report ; let not many
watera quench your love to her. Yield to
no estaollehed rules if they involve a lie.
Do not do evil that good may come 0 it.
" Consequences 1" -this is the devil's argu-
ment, Leave conscgaenom to God ; but do
right. If friends faii, thee, de the right. If
icemen eurround thee, do the right, Be
genuine, real, einoere, true, npright, godlike,
The world's taaxim Is, trim your sails and
yield to eireumetancee. Bat if you would
do any good in your generation, you remit
be made of sterner stuff, and help make
your times rather than be male by them.
you meat not yield to customs, but, like
the anvil, ender° all blows until the ham -
mere break themselvea. When misrepre.
sented, um no crooked means to olear your-
self. Claude do not lad long. If in the
course of duty you are tried by the distruet
ef frierids, gird up your loins and eay in
your heart I was driven to virtue by the en-
couragement of Mende, ner will I be repel-
led from it by their coldness. Finally be
just and fear not ; " corruption veins not
more than honesty ;" truth lives and reigns
when falehood dies and rots,
Mamma : " Now, Effie, I am going to al-
low you to sit at the table with 01 the com-
pany ; but you must not forget to be polite
and say. Yes, please,' and Ne, thank
you.' Effie (with an unlimited cepacity
think I shall have to ' No, tank
miget be molly aupplied with another, la ether 1 and it is equally trtie that he whe
tate ono tgeold awe „t ta a good ottote i las once traveled free on rail or river ever
It was the last winter of Peter•Patriok's atterwards seek"' to ride en his " pass."
attempt at schooling, and, following the The Boston " Record" Ulla of each au in -
emulate of bis numerous predecessors in the dividnal, once a reporter and long a " dead -
busily, he wee to ge down to the hen-mille head."
One exceedingly hot day, having made up
to work. his mind that the proper thing to do was to
" Wait thin, and I'll be gettin' ye a new
take a saltwater excursion, this man of
" Void better 'be gettin' yerself a new cheek 'trolled along the wharves of Beaten
gownd, mither," said he gleefully.
jacket," said Mrs. 0 Roorke, mournfully. In order to perk out the likelieet exoursion
And it rankled in her breast becauee an er- steamer he meld find. He selected one at
tist, spending the previous summer in Gran- last, went on board, hunted up a chair, took
villa, had painted Peter-Patriok down -red a seat in a ahady place,' put his feet on the
head, ragged jacket, and all -and carried rail, and began te read a newsmen In
him off to a big torn, ma sold him there about fifteen minutes a sallor•looking man
for a thousand dollar). It was pretty hard, opened a door, looked at Mm about a mia-
she reflected, to have a boy ib „ „metal ate, and dieappeared, In about ten minutes
mere the sailenlooking man ceane back and
sand dollars V And Mrs, O'Reorke would fedi:bawled the newepaper mean
that the very picture of 'ira sold for a then -
have stood speeehless with astonithment if w What are you deing here ?" mud he.
" 0 1" exclaimed the newepaper man,
ally said many timee, in good faith, in de- " only going to take a little trip with yen,"
she could have heard what that artist actu-
scribing the painting-thet it was "the And he whipped out his card and presented
picture of an Irish lad, down at Granville -It' " Member of the prose, you know -
Mille, who had the most beautiful face he give you a good notice in the paper next
Ohrietraaa day :-and Peter -Patrick had wet" sailer -looking man said not a word,
carved the gayeet model of a boat, main- and went back into the bowels of the vessel.
ever saw 1"
mast and foremast, mile all a flying, that he Fifteen minutes more and the steamer
carried up in hie bare red Mania to little hadn't started, The newspaper man began
Barney, on the •hill. The floor of the to get a llttle weary. He waited a little
library, where Barney sat, was covered with while longer, and went inside and hunted
gifts, gifts wonderful and expensive. 44 Oak up the sedlowlookthg man, who was spear -
thin, but ain't it a beautiful sight af tem 1" °sty engaged in polishing the ship's cable,
cried Peter Patrick, his face beaming with " Say 1" said the newepaper man, " how
wonder and delight. Barney could not help long before this.beat derail?"
noticing how cold and bare Ms hands looked. " Well," said the sailor -looking ,man, as
He had meant to give Peter -Petrick some he went on with hie polishing, ' I think
'mittens for a Christmas preeent, but he had she'll sail about a week from next Wednes-
" forgotten " it. Peter -Patrick never day, She's laid up for repairs."
thought of that It was a foot that no one
then, he had. never thought of that. There aro 200,000 Italian settler,' in the
bad ever made him a gift in liki life -bat
Christmas holiday 1 -and all the lads and Argentine Republic, 82,000 In Brazil, 40, -
tansies were out coasting with their new 000 in Uruguay, and 6,000 in Mexico.
sleds, Charley Grenville with a famous one, " Will you please give me a dime," said
a gift that day, a clipper with iron swan, a tramp " I' MI d " " Yeti can see mat
heads in front, and cushioned Meta for four, of one eye as well as I can," replied the
or more. Laughing, shouting, up and down gentleman importuned. " Yon are only
the hill they went, the nierrieet of allPeter. half blind," " Then give me half a dime,"
Patrick, en a plank 1 eteering It on his feet, said the tramp.
mantpulations with the crazy old board, There is discussion as to the propriety of
'Wearing It on his knees, making wonderful
riding down anyway tat the right way. putting "beadle" into the dictionary, As it
Then Olierley Granville, in Ms excite. would nave to come ender the head A B's,
meat, chore a longer and a steeper hill; it and conesquently after Alderman, and as it
took in a railroad messing too ; but it was is well known that Aldermen le always %feu
a branch road, no trains due except at " boodle," it would of course look very
night and morning. 64 pahaw 114 erten mute out 0 plata.
Charley "radanger for hours." A clergyman at Lebsnon, Pa., when he
Just as mueli as ' the hill wan longer began his sermon recently announced that
and steeper so muck louder and as soon as three of the congregatIon fell
mereler waxed the sport. There, waving asleep he wenld stop preaching. The after -
his Obp, oanie Charley, a lead of little lads noon was rather want, and memo heeds be
and lassies filling his sleigh, tucked in, mane heavy. After a while tne ',teacher
wedged la, piled in anyhow. observed that three bad gone to aleop, and
And there, oh Gad 1 -around the bank pp d his sermon. This made vonievehat ly see g
that deadened the sonnd of its rushing of a stir in the audience, and soon raise a °ranks. Italy ham ne difficulty tat way.
wheels, came an " mare" train on the road, drooping heads, when the sermon was con She attaches them to e. hand organ and mends
its whistle belching out a shrill agony of tinned. e them to this °matey.
This morning, just beyond the bridge,
some workmen planting now telegraph pales
along the edge ef the cliff. And there was
Charley Granville, Barney's :amain, and
the great Judge Gre,nville's son, with writ
ten muse" from his mother in hls pocket
with which same excuse he had sterted for
school sometime) about an hear or more ago.
some as the daylight, though with no exouse
at all in nis pocket.
Now Charley had. been bragghig, in easy
fashion, about hi s father's wealth, itnd his own
scholarship, and one thing and another, to
the crowd of geocinatured, burly veorkmen ;
and when Peter•Patriok came up with so
much engaging swagger about laim, and
such an inn ffietent Jacket, prudence for-
sook Charley's brain and he thought still
more to distinguish himself by making apart
ef Pater Petri*,
" Fair and ()glare, and the witness
there. Makh you a bet, and I'll beat you
yet,' " he cried, in that tamed schoolboy
phramole get which is the drum. call to °ate
of ambitions eivalry. "Bet you, Peter.
Patrick, I'll bo up one 0 those telegraph
poles before you are 1"
Up in a leash, breathless, sorambling, tear-
ing a few more generous rents in his woful
trousers flaw Peter -Patrick. Surely he
did look' cooaloal from that position, in his
floating rags, to Charley who had not stir-
red from his place and now stood laughing
insultingly, with his heads in his pockets.
" Well, what de you see up there, Red -
Cali, thin," said Peter -Patrick, quietly
greapieg the pole with hie lege, and fold-
ing his maul, with a narrowing "quint down
at hie questioner ; " it's only a tittle wood -
cheek 1 eee below there I guess. Or may.
be," he added, it's a eltionk, Faith," said
Peter•Patrick, adjusting hie cep to the tip
of his curls, and sending en dill more deli-
berate and critical quint downvrards, " but
all 1"
Roar after roar went np from the group
of weikerien. Charley reallzed that both
hie wit and hie °emptily were at a dimount.
10 You'd better come:down then, allafire,"
he oried, in shrill wrath.
in a tone of donee import ; whereat Charley
made no further question, but took to his
Pater Patric& overtook him4 and collared
Mm with a grip of ,hon. "Now I ain't
goin' to be givin' ye the HEM& ye deserve,
for I'm jist then stronger than ye be -nor I
don't bear ye no ill will, neyther, ye Mtle
lyin's denver-but I'm, only gone' to ;give
ye a little wallopinl.like, jiat for the health
This Peter -Patrick proceeded to do ; but
as it was not in his nature to give otherwhie
than generously, it may be stiesposed that
01werley reoeived an amount tabulated to
playsical benefit.
On sped Charley to school, breathing
vengeance, His excuse for a quarter.of.an-
hewn tardiness was of no use now, anyvvay ;
he tore it in pieces, with inalloious intent,
As for retet.Patriek, he eatintered on, at
his usual gait
exclaimed the eohoolradeter.
Peter-Petriok V70.0 used to the statement,
the the tons, and the kindly nainistretione
them, Bat " le dthat i" he anewered,
'wattling his head at the door, with
hurnorone bewilderment, "Declaimer, but
me Glee '11 be were out on me, efeee night
--the time filei do on me 1"
And having had hie joke, he went up
rid took his whipping.
A writer in the Paris Moan tells the fol-
lowing straw : In 1871, ircraediately after
the surrender of Parts and when the Ger-
man army was in the city, Gen. Benlanger,
then a Colonel, was in command ot the
137ela of the line. The regiment was en
echeisn in the Rue Saint Honore guarding
the limit beyond which the Pruesians were •
not to pass. At the intersection of the Rue
Saint Honore and another street, the name
of which the writer does not recall, but he
remembers that it was near the Rothschild
house, snddenly appeared the General in
commend of the Pruesian army, followed
by his brilliant tteff, They were about to
Peas the line of demarcation, when Gel.
Boulanger rode up In front of them. "Gen-
eral," raid he, in a loud voice, " you cannot
pass." The latter pretended not to under -
*tend, and appeared to be about to mune on,
when Bathe ger, purple with rage and hat-
red, daehed leeward, sabre in band, and
shouted out in a eavage veto " General,
you must not pass. It you advance another
step— " Then using that the brilliant
troop had come ec) a bah, be added, with an
It le said the English Gevernment vain.
1 ea of confinement for its
consigner' " needed but little " says
the writer, " to put the match to tfte pow-
der at that moment, There and then Ger-
many might have lost ream precious heads.
Inspired by the Cabmen we graeped our
Chaseepots. The quality 0 the game wee
tempting."
A Nail -Storm to Brag of.
It is seriously asserted that during a stern
in the western part of Team, recently,
hailstones weighing from seven to twelve
pounds fell in great numbers, and the mut-
ranee Is held up as semetbIng extraordinary.
It isn't a marker, however eays The Phils-
tear storm width wept down the valley of
the peaceful Cassewago creek in Crawford
county during the het summer of 1848. An
old inhabitant who witnessed that storm
retaemberathat the hail came down so thick
that after the particles beoarae pulverized
somewhat there was good sleighing for three
days ; one conical -shaped hailstone fell
througbt the reef of a blacksmith shop and
punched a 3 inch bele through a oase.bard-
railroad hen equarely on the end and split
it in two at porteotly as If it had been saw-
ed ; one large hallatene was housed ever
and covered with sawdust and furnished,
twee families with Ice until the new oreen
came in the next winter, beaded providing:
enough for the lemenade at two grangeree
pionioe ; the weather was so cold for five
days aftet the etorm that wood went up
cures a cord, end when the cattle killed bee
the storm were dressed theit hides were.
found punched so full of heles that they
were sold to a perms plaster foundry for *
mere trifle ; the hail teat fell into the Cute
sewage Wiled gorge in that abeam wkiele
evettlowed the whole valley, and the water"
wet so old tat potetoes in the ground
Were frozen hard enough to IISO for billiat
belle the country tanerne ; and the plane
where Nome of the helatenes struck th
ground, were aftervrard need as potholes
%Mere In building teatime. /f Texatt eve
Witn00$03 a stern of the Caseewago vatic
we shall be disposed to lieten to it, bat
won't de to send up any little petite', eo
While canoeing down the Merrimac John
Boyle O'Reilly discovered a bed of real
shaintooks, Out luck while terming he
generally ,been to discover a boa a Me
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