THE END OF r
THE FUED
By SrOPHIE SWETT
ICJopyrigiit, by Joseph U. Bowies.)
Mrs. O'Shane and Mrs. McGrath
lived much 1'ornenst each other, as
they were wont to express it. In a
lane which led to the river from the
main street of Brewerlon, and were
usually on the friendliest and most
neighborly terms. They possessed
the same tastes and aspirations, and
husbands who had been to school to
gether in the “ould eounthry,” and
were still warm friends, never falling
out, and taking the greatest enjoy
ment in each other's society. They
were thrifty people, and each owned
a cozy little house and barn, a garden
patch and a "hit” pasture where a
tidy cow fed in the summer.
Moreover, the McGraths' Henry, a
freckle-faced youth who filled the Im
portant position of grocer’s clerk in
the village, was sparking the
O’Shanes’ Rosy, a slip of a girl with
the bluest eyes in the country. So,
take it. altogether, the relations be
tween the two families were uncom
monly delightful, until Mrs. O'Shane,
possessed by the “spirit of the new,”
lost all interest in her hens and
ducks, and sought turkeys as a solace
of the mind and a filler of the purse.
"Any bin could bring off a clutch
of turkevs. shnrre. 'n' aisv Ptiomrb.
too. 'n' niver know they didn't, be iv
her own koind,” she remarked to Mrs.
McGrath, in whose own breast she
had aroused the same desires. At the
end of the next year both dames were
tiie proud possessors of two especial
ly fine gobblers; each gobbler had two
prim, mottled wives, and t;ach wife
•trailed with her about the fields a
melancholy half-grown flock, whose
plaintive peeping filled the early
autumn dusk with sadness and woke
,the fresh, rosy mornings to the same
tune.
The two cocks were as much alike
as two peas. It was difficult to tell
them apart until Mrs. O’Shane discov
ered one day that “her own lad,” as
•she called him, “had a bit ev holler in
[his back, and the feathers on the
crachure’s back were less t'ick than
those of me lad over yonther.”
; Every morning, while the mists
Hvere still hanging oyer the river, both,
flocks of turkeys filed out of the lane
in stately procession en route to the
«weet mint-smelling fields, the gob
tblers at the head, solemn and grand,
and every twilight they marched back
again in the same manner.
Rut, alas, one unhappy night, only
one gobbler returned, and Mrs.
O'Shane and Mrs. McGrath each
claimed that one as her own.
It happened most unfortunately that
a dog belonging to a party of boys
was rushing through the lane at that
moment and mischievously dashed
at the flock, and as Mrs. McGrath ex
pressed it, “the gobble was that dis
thraeled and pit out iv his nioind wid
the fright, that he turned in at the
nearest path, the crachure. and the
nearest path was forninst the
oiiiiiu >• n.u i\ uuui, uau iu 11.
A gloom settled upon the little
neighborhood and a fierce war raged
between the two dames. The hus
bands. peace-loving, non-partisan
■cronies as they were, were forbidden
to speak to each other. Mrs. O'Shane s
imminent son-in-law was shooed from
her door, when at twilight his heart
and feet led him as usual toward the
object of his affections, the blue-eyed
Rosy.
“ 'Oonian alive, why don't yez be
afther set:’'’ this unforchinite affair
wid the g. e someway,” spoke Mr.
McGrath, d not be tliryin’ to saze
the gobble that do bo at the O'Shanes'
all the time. Mike says he haven't
his sapper last night till 'most bed
toime, because his wife have to
sthand guard over the crachure. I'll
not sthand this quar’lin’ an' flghtin'
ony longer The t’ing's got to he sit
tled iu S' ■ way. The jedge is your
old mas:' md Mike 'n' mesllf both
wurruk him in toimes past, 'n'
<1 good > do be, wise as a abbey
owl, and r as the saints thim
silves.”
“I rive viii," exclaimed Biddy, but
she knew well that she would do
so in the for though Teddy was
an awful t man, when he did
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“sphake, he maned it, and somehow
or anither, a body had to do just as
said, whativer.”
That night when Mr. McGrath re
turned from work he announced that
the judge would be “ ’greeable ef the
two ladies would bring theirselves and
their witnesses along wld ’em to his
barn at nine o'clock in the morning.
Biddy stormed awhile, but was
ready at the time appointed. Wit
nesses who would swear that the re
maining gobbler belonged to her were
hard to find, but she seized upon the
“felly that peddled horse-radish," who
was pretty sure, by the expression of
the villain’s countenance, that he was
the one that had such marked objec
tions to his red sweater that he flew
onto his back one morning, clawing
and swearing at the top of his voice.
Then there was a boy who lived by
the river, whose goat had been over
fed with rag-dolls by Billy O'Shane
until he just escaped death from
acute indigestion.
Mrs. O'Shane was to take the poul
tryman who came around in a cart to
buy and sell fowls, and had observa
tion. Her crony, Mrs. Slatterly, who
had been much acquainted with the
gobbler ever since he “chipped the
shell, shurre,” and was as intimate
with him as her own brother; and
Mr. Donahoe, who was out of work
and once had difficulty with Mrs. Mc
Grath concerning a boundary-line, was
willing to testify that he "belaved the
crachure was in the custliody ot his
roightful owner.’’
After hearing all the evidence the
judge expressed himself as being un
able to decide the case at the present
time. The testimony of the witnesses
was most satisfactory. "There is only
one tiling that can be done,” he said.
"Let the gobbler decide it for himself.
Go immediately home and let him go
to the fields with the young flock.
When he comes back at night he will
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“An’ hum bein’ shut oop by Ellen
O'Shane for a wake or more, the cra
chure. Av coorse he’d go hack till her.
A pritty coort this do be. I'll niver
: ’bide by it, judge, niver. Me lad
don’t be ch’ated away from me so
aisy," shouted Mrs. McGrath.
“He hasn’t been out. in the mean
time, Biddy, and I have no doubt but
that he would go back to your coop, if
he really belonged to you. J have had
experience with turkeys myself.”
“They do be on their habits drid
ful,” remarked Mrs. Slatteyly. “You
couldn’t bate thim wid a shtick till
they'd dhrop um. Mebbe he would go
home till you, Biddy."
Mrs. McGrath began to soli, and re
garded the gobbler plaintively as she
started on her way home behind the
'■ cart which conveyed him.
i The gobbler was released from the
coop immediately on his return home,
according to the judge's directions,
: and recovering his spirits with sur
j prising suddenness, headed the turkey
family in dignified precession toward
; the fields. Mrs. McGrath, still sob
bing, refused to be a spectator of the i
scene, but retired at once to the
kitchen, where she solaced herseli
with unlimited and very black cups of
tea in the sympathetic company of
Mrs. Slatterly, who expressed an opin
| ion that there was “nothing like tay j
! for a aggravation.”
When the early twilight was begin
ning to fall, and the flock might be
expected home at any moment, the
lane was well filled with the friends
of both families, and the fence quite
Marked Objection to His Red Sweater.
black with delighted small boys of the
neighborhood, who anticipated much
fun when the gobbler should finally
dispose of himself.
“They’re coming, they’re coming!” |
shouted the boys on the fence, tum
bling to the ground with gleeful
yells.
Nearer and nearer came the sleepy,
speckled, straggling procession, him
self at the head, bearing himself with
not quite his usual dignity, and won
derful to say, quite in the rear, with
a lame leg, to winch a long string was
attached, hobbled the lost gobbler,
sleek and shining and important, in
spite of his misfortune.
Mrs. McGrath nearly fell from her
chair.
The leading gobbler, without a mo
ment's hesitation, turned in at the
O’Shanes’ gateway, but the lame one
:n the rear, after a queer but joyous
gobble or two, and a peculiar ducking
of his scarlet head, made straight for
the coop in the McGraths’ back yard.
‘‘Oh, nre b'v, me b’y, what hurted
ye that crool?” exclaimed Mrs. Mc
Grath, taking him in hcg arms as she
might have taken a baby. “What
| spalpeen shtoled ye, shurre?”
The crowd shouted and hurrahed
lustily, but the boys were evidently
disappointed at the tame ending of
, the affair, and went away grumbling
that there was “no fight in’ and no
! nothin’.”
"I told you that they had their hab- I
its on ’em awful,” said Mrs. Slatterly, |
who had repaired to the coop with her
friend to held in the entertainment of i
knew where 1o come, jist, ’n’ hum
: been gone a wake 'n' more."
Just then Ellen O'Shane slipped in
at the door bearing a plate of some
i thing hot and savory.
"1 thought the lad might relish a bit
of hot Johnnycake; I made it with
; sour crame, an’ there's nothin’ me
own lad is so fond of, shurre, espe
| cially when he don't feel jist roight.
I’m terrible glad you got hum back,
Biddy, dear.”
Biddy choked down a sob. “Thank
you. kindly, Ellen,” she said, “ ’n’
mebbe you'll come in fur a sup o’ tea
bime-by, and 1 have a nice little can
of barberry perserve pit by for ye,
seein' ye didn’t make any yersilf. I i
| wonder where Henery do be. I want
■ him till help me pit an exthry fasthen
| in' on the dooer, shurre. If he was
sjitoled onct, he might be shtoled
ag’in, the poor crachure.”
"Henery’s gone a-walkin’ with Rosy i
by the river, glory be, ’n’ I’ll help ye,
meself. Meself is as good as any
man wid a fasthenin’,” said Mrs.
O’Shane.
So the night settled down peaceful
ly and happily in the lane by the
river.
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