Rossa's Inflammatory Article

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 81, 17 December 1885, Page 3

Rossa's Inflammatory Article

~» O'Donovan Rosga sat down ia bis Chambers-street office yesterday morning to write an editorial. It was about his favourite topic -England. The patliotic legs were snored far under ths dusty desk upon which the patriot elbow leaned. Heaped up on all sides were bundles ©f old paper* and sheaves of manuscript. A green sunbeam rested upon the writer's brow. As the pen rattled along over the paper, the editoral took shape : — "Never it shall it be said that Ireland would not be free when it could. Bather let London be given up to •" The toatriot pau*ed and sniffed the air suspiciously. "Be given up to flames !" '■ Again the writer paused and sniffed. .Then he rubbed his trousers. - "Quare !'.' lie muttered, "mighty quare S Be me sowl, I'd hare sworn I smelt fire ! It must hare been me fome imagination. Ah; Jerry, ma boy, ye're an itliseant gorsoon, Sachsanagh immege hefieruun !" After which introspect the pen continued : " Let fire and famine " This tim* it was v decided snort that burst from Ros.«a, nnd he clapped both hands over his trousers, and executed a gotd imitation of he second figure in the Highland fling. Under his chair was the waste basket in flames, and from it a cloud of smote arose. In a« instant Kossa leaped into the air. His two feet were brought close together and descended with a crash upon the basket and its contents. Then he seized the burning paper and carried it to the outer office, where the gloomy Joyce wrestles with the British lion every day. Here the flames were stamped out, and later in the day Rossa finished his editorial. The New York Herald is respoaiible for this story.