IS CHIVALRY STILL POSSIBLE, BEDAD.

Waikato Times, Volume 2656, Issue 2656, 20 July 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

IS CHIVALRY STILL POSSIBLE, BEDAD.

Sore the boys were all crazy afther Kathleen O'Kelly, it's like her shadow they were the spalpeens. There was little Tim Uregan and big Mike Daly and Patsy Maloney all coortin' her together. But Pat was an Orangeman, and she turned up her nose at him for a manespirited, law-abidin' gossoon. ''Sure thin," says she. *' it's the boy that floes the bouldest deed I'll be after marryin'!" Begor, when big Mike heard that he was afther moonlighting the land agent within hail av the police. Bedad, it'scombin' his ould poll wid a blackthorn twig he was afther, and walkin' on his breastbone, and it's ten years wid hard labour they gave him for his love of ould Oirish sports. And little Tom Cregan was away to the resident Magistgrate's to put half a pound of dynamite in the letterbox and ring the bell. And begorra its ten years he got for that same. And Kathleen, poor colleen, was heart broken for them, till Pat Maloney came along to console her. " Och, thin alanna," says he," whoy wud ye be grievin* afther thim divils ? Sure it's meself that's a bonlder boy than anyther av them. And bejabers its a boulder deed I've done, for I've paid the rint av me houldin' in broad daylight, wid sorra a scrap of police protectin about me." And when Kathleen saw the receipt she was as good as her word, and it's Mrs Maloney she is this minute.—Fun.