How Pat Went Courting.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 385, 17 July 1889, Page 3

How Pat Went Courting.

'Stii/-, comsinted at la&t. .For twp yeai& I"d <ht>chta v dale<>,v Nelly M'Cusker, only I I had rioMiin' ov an Irish boy's bouldness' to up and boll her that same. But, yisterday' be/. X to mesilf — "Pat Murky, now's yer toime,.oi; never." ' !So % f btart^ on wid — , ' " Troth,,"Nelly, it-.'s a bad loife* fbi a boy to be li\ in* alone." ' ' ' " How can I b'lave that," 'sez &he," whin ye'\c uot a h'ddui ? ' '"Fidduls" sez I, " ai~e cheerin', but I've got n} v. two eyes set on Fomet, on bornethin checnuer." ' She foirrob to ax me what that sumthin' « a? , so I trotted ofV by another load, t-ay-in' — * " Faith, Nelly, I'm go-in' back to Ould' Ireland. ' • "• ltidade,' 1 hez she, flurfcin' the difeh-rag. " An it's a pity ye ever cum over |3> ' " Vis," so/ I. " Jane said thao same in ' her la^tlether. " '"An' who's .lans ?"-'axt Nolly, get tin' red loike the crabs on the ta.b bes"oide her. ' " She thinks a power o' me, sva I, onheedin.' ' " An' is she waitih' fur ye '?" "'Vis.' y '"She'll be changin' names 'sure, I leckcm ?" '"Vis." ' " Wat's her name, now ?" ' 4 " Jane — Murky !" said I, with ddi^ht. '"Thin, slie's your sister V" fa ez> T elly 5 cros-s cs her nristre&fe. " Well, it ain't much matter, &/. how I've got a boy wotehiu' ior me over in BaJlycoran." ' " his name ' " axfc'l, turnin' hot an 1 cold all at wunst. ' '- '. , ' '• Barney Flynn," sez she. ' " An' does he love ye ?' , * ' " Nixt to the Vargin.' 4 ! ' "Is, he comin' over sure f "'No.' . , ' "Why not,' bedad ?'' " ' " Och, Pat, he's man ied alriddy ?' ' ''/I ho spalpeen !" $ez I. ' "Don't give him hard 'names," bez she. " Barney Flynns me soip-brother,!" i ' Then she laf b that purty laugh o'hern,, an' 1 wint up close. ' "Nelly,"sezl. "Wat, Pat?" ... ' " Cud ye lov a boj^ loike me 7" 4 " Tioth an' I wouldn't tiny," ' 1 " Why not. darlint,?'\ * ' " Faith, 1 wus niver.ax.t to," * '' • , "' Thin I'll ax ye now," ' ' ' She hung her curly head' for a mihi't, and whin she lookt up 1 axb' hbi- to 'be my wife.' ' ''I'll guv ye toive secinds;'<"se>s I. • T Ef ye will, jist fotch me the bis; pewter <spqon ye've been wipin' ; ef'yoij^yon't, thin put it back in the drawer !'.'*,<, '< ' ' She peeped at me Qver the t.op ay it. , / " Vi&, plarlint N "'sez I-. „ "' ' ' ' " Tliin here's the spoon.".

A cofiespondent at the .Wade' wishes to know' whether ■ the' ' Argentine Republic aflords u favourable.. field foe, -labour.' Wb have no hesitation an} spying; decidedly not as tar a,s •cotvoerns English labour. Theie i*. an enormous, influx of population going on to the Argentine, but it is chiefly from the South ot Europe, the most poorly-paid ot all ivoikmen. 'This fact, added to the 'abundance of native herdsmen, causes the labour' markets ot the Argentine to be conbtantly over&fcocked with 'labour of the very choapest description. The chief sources o-t wealth in the .Republic are pastoral — vast /herds ot cattle and flocks of sheep wandering" 'over, the naturally, grassed lands. The work of herding and, shepherding fib is stock calls 'for »very w little skill}^atid is-of course poorly paid. --> . •