| Show 0 Donil 1 d C I a 0 n a an 0 n a ners Author Antl and mul of Other Othel Stories Cor Corners s ONAL and tid Conal Canal were neighbors DONAL D and nd cousins Donal Danai hud had a 8 smart little farm fanu that was both por r and bad Conal had bad i fine big farm that he h y got good crops crop oft off Donal had one on poor old horse that found it ft a trouble to draw his legs aft alter after r him Mn And md Conal h Jd had two beautiful big bh stout horses that the likes of or them em were not to be ho met me wIth ln In th h country again asAn Now Donal DanaI and ond Conal used to help belp j A one another on n their farms and azad Y sh way w wa I they agreed was this Donal lend hi one scrawny horse h e to tn t Conal for the six lays days of or the weel ff anft zuil on Sunday Conal woud lend tend Us two t horses hores to Donal There w wi One Sunday when D Denal nal M driving the three horses and anel belated on the road and Id like mee a heat he it of the fire a pick to eat cat and a bed till morning Veil Vell my poor fellow says sas the theman theman theman man youre welcome to ta the heat of the fire lire and the bed till tm morning but Im lm afraid that at this hour bour of ot the night there a pick to eat within the four walls of the house But theres theresa a 8 chair for youA you says he sit down and have heye a heat of the fire tire and lets chat cht awhile anyhow The girl she lie was sitting sHUng on one side of or the fire lire the tha man of the house sat himself down on the other and a chair wa waI Mt t for Donal in front of at the fire and Donal doubles up his hide and puts it down on the th chair thair under him and sits site down on top if it And as soon as he heift TV ift it down don on m top of if I the hide being as dry as wit it H was as let a squeak 8 out ot of it and the gentleman looked up and says as he that I t I i r i fT f J Y S i 3 f f l F ff rh 1 t tJ tf J c IOElE OE MIDDLE OF OP STRAW WITH WITE wm A TELL lELL AND Alm SCREECH JUMPS rus THE LAD LAP WHO WAS HIDDEN THESE THERE Cowal Cona was w s hoHing the plow plo and there were weft number of t pe alon the road going goin to mans ms and aid they were plowing Just by th the road roadside roadside roadside side and Donal DanaI was that proud find wanting to draw attention of or the people to them he toe would say 0 every other mo urn moment ment G Gu u my m hora bor hore threatened ned lot Jot of vf f times if t he would not stop calling them his horses horse he the would have his this life ute Donal Donai always al promised ed that he be would stop the next minute when he be would wold eee ee roe another crowd passing lIe he would cry my horses Anti And at last lut the lie angered Conal so 80 that he took wok up a bit of iron and struck Donals old horse horae with it and knocked him down and ald killed him den dead V Douai was a sorry Orry enough man to se see seo Si his poor old horse dead but he say much Next Nen mor he skinned the hor horse bOnte f k and nd d then It up in hIM hi Is wee cabin until it Was tas as right t jury dry and when It had hud dried he h over his hl s and an started ay to town ton WIth It to to sell self it Whets Whan he be went Into town he t Bet et anyone to u 0 buy for tor love Jove Of Ot 0 money mo so o my poor follow fellow had to start away way for home aga as night was Yaa as falling failing on him himy himAt y At last it got that dark that he h not se his fL ay nay any further mo o tie ie e d about until l Ul he saw sw a aUght light tto drev on ho and went up to w fine house houge anU nl n lifted the th latch atch and Went ent in There was wall as only a servant girl there and when hen she phe s saw whim him she asked him h n nhat what hat h wanted H said he wanted only ony a pick to eat and hOO a R bed until m Sh SIt told him hp thy k pt no DO tramps about that house bernie bou e ordered him Jim away r Fhe he would call the and have him shoot hobt him hinr 5 she he turned out nut poor Donal and bun ban edl the door In his hi face fale It w was a too sate late and nd dark for lor Donal Decal to togo too togo go o my C where HO so I he tie hung bung hun about bout the thein house in for tor a While He an t long tong waning waiting there until he saw sw a young fellow come slipping up ut to the back backdoor backdoor backdoor door and going in Then Thes he went want to the window he h peered in and be he besaw saw how glad the servant girl was w sto to see him kirn She gave hilT bin the otte t tReat A seat neat In the house hou e and at once on the thea therA rA a fire she lie nut nu a pot and a fine goose in inthe Inthe the th pot then she put n It a bottle of or whiskey and nd a lost lOB of bread on the ta table table tabie ble bie and as ts s soon oon as us the guess goose e was nas boiled It was put on the thi table the tho and both of them sat down to tl take a meal me I at midnight p And they were ware chatting batting and laughing end and nd enjoying themselves to no end With that Donal Donat Don l bears a sound of horses homes hoofs and there he sees BeeS a gen gentleman gentleman tieman whom he knew must be he the thema matter master ma ter of I t the house coming riding up upon upon on horseback Decal Donal Dan laid h d downin down In the dark dar till un the gentleman passed Ims the tho window Again and h b he saw that as ns seen soen as they heard leard Ute horses hoofs inside the both bothof bothof of o them were thrown Into consternation tion and in a Jiffy Jur the servant girl was waa getting petting and hiding the things that were S the table She stuck the bottle of jP pi whisky in a lisle hele up tie chimney she 1 hid the loaf of bread bre d hi ill a hol b in the I 1 ar I I 1 I S 1 I He Be Started Up and d Took the Hoad Rad Ro d to toT i ithe T the an With the Corpse of a aI I Over Each Shoulder houlder a wall and nd she nbc lUt put the half balf of ot the goose i that they the had not yet eaten euten behind Q W the d er and ant then she was wan running about up UI und down and around round and her young man was wits running about up and down and around to see where nera the theA A 4 devil deU he be would be hid and at last I St she ho he stuck him in under a heap of or straw that was lying in one corner and covered him well over o era I And she all ail this well done dona one when the gentleman had his stabled at an f lifted the latch of the back 1 dour doir and walked In She was then sitting sl ting Ung in a corner with her ber head nod nodding nodding nodding ding as if he was asleep Donal Denal with the hide over his shoulder lifted the and wanted walked in In a eo very few fe minutes mil ute after and when hf hp cam In the t master T of o the house turned and looked at him and asked JIm aim what dill he want Nothing said Donal Donni only Ive I e gut got t 4 Oh says Donal DanaI says he be Its noth ing ng only a few fem words that this old horses hors s hide is la in me ear Indeed says the tile gentleman very wonderful What Is b it it said It says sa says sas Donal DonaI that to pick a boiled balled goose now no would be no mad dog to either you ou or me Neither It would says the gentle gentleman gentleman gentleman man says he If we had the like With that Donal made the hide give another squeak And says the tte gentleman Is it speaking again Yes gays Dons Donal it says you ou have better 1 than the half halt of oi a boiled goose behind the dresser dremler Oh a lying hide bide says as the gentleman for theres not a boiled balled goose within the walls of the house Then rhen its the first t time ever I knew t o tell me a IL lie in my life Ufe time Urns Donal Donat says he and ana Ive had it now these forty years Would it be b l th th your while Just to get up and look Well to satisfy you says the gentleman gentleman I will wm get g t up and look And up ho he got and went and looked behind the dresser drea er and there it was wasand wasand and It was him was the surprised man JO to o find better than half balf of a boiled balled goose and he be brings it out and puts It down on the table And Well Veil well well says he that surely is the most wonderful w 1 r 1 hide ever I hoard heard tell i na says saS the man Is a wel come bite for the both of us if I had only something else to kitchen to it With that Donald makes the hide bide squeak again and the gentleman looks up UI and aDd says he Is it speaking again Yes says Donal its whispering to me if U you look in the bole In the corner there beyond oun get the big bigI I ger Dart part of a loaf Oh well says the gentleman Im rm afraid that hides lying this time There a loaf In this house bouse this week I it worth your while to try anyhow 1 says ooS Donald I And to satisfy him the man said he heI I I would try and there from the bole he I produced the of a loaf II and its him as RR you may well suppose I I I was VIUS wa the surprised man out and out outWell outI I II Well Veil well well wen says sas he Of all the wonderful wo hides 8 that ever I heard I of that one beats them all And he put the loaf on the table and says he I You and me will have hae a right royal toed feed anyhow it a It great pity we I have no better than black water to toi tot i t wash It down I With that th t Donal Danai made the hide bide I squeak again It speaking again lie is it says the gentleman I Yes Says Donal says he It tells tens I me ins that you ou have better than black blackwater blackwater water in the house I Well says the man says he heIts heIts Its Jes wonderful and a very wonder I fil hide surely sure as we have hae seen but Im afraid Its wrong this time for Ive had nothing stronger than water in the house for tor fourteen days back buck Then rhen the hide bide squeaked again apin and Donal Don says It Ilk says if you reach your hand h md up the chimney YOun find the I big part of a bottle of whisky I Oh says the te Im afraid I very much of that but to sat satisfy satIsfy you we will try So up the chim chimney ney nay he reached his hand and what does doe he bring down with him only the bigger part of a bottle of oC whisky And Well Vell eU well well says sas he be seen and very wonderful things In my m life ute but anything so wonderful l la a that hide bide of yours he be says I i never nefer did see or hear of Draw for forward forward forward ward your chair here he says to the table and eat and drink your fill for youve earned earnell them both The girl was ng in the corner like a hen on a L h 1 ir Idle and the sweat t was rolling doen her in drops of the size of or wee marines But Bet Donai I pulled over to the tha table along alo g with the I gentleman and the two of them fell to and ate their hearty fill a ad d washed It down with a tO or two out of oC I Ithe the bottle And when they bad ate ate and drunk drank I heartily they pulled around to the fire tire I again apin and the gentleman lit up the i pIpe and passed it to Donal D nal and they the began n to smoke anc an anC chat The rhe gentleman drew the discourse upon the hide and what a wonderful thing thin It was He lie began to tell teU Donal how ho he had been In the habit for twelve months back of missing a lot lotof lotof lotof of things from the house both eat and drinkables and w and he ht or know who it was ws at all at all l was the thief And AndI I wonder says he hs If that hide bide of yours as a its les so 80 wonderful I wonder if it tt could give me m any information about that This hide says Donal DanaI can give information on all aU things It cannot only om tell toll you woo who the thief is but more mor that says he be it can raise the thief here h te and now and make him bim himI I stand up on that floor there You dont say so says the gentle genUe roan nina Well If tf It could do that he says Its truly the most wonderful hide that ever evel was known says sos he and I would b be willing to purchase it for fr a large sum Let It try to produce the thief says he Donal said ald all right and tind nd he the made the Tilde d squeak that it says says the gentlemen men t tIt It orders you to take down lown that flail hung on the rafters there ere and take a great groat grip of It In your yourI I hand and be ready to thrash the thief I when he appears i Up then the gentleman steps and takes down the flail and takes a right good grip rip of or it IL in his bin n fist and then Donal makes the hide squeak again a in It says says say Donal Donah that Chat you are areto areto areto to throw threw the back door wide open and then to stand by it The gentleman Went out and he threw tile the th door wide open and he stood by y with the tho Hail 11 in his fist Then The Y Donl made mads the hide squeak again What does it 1 t say gay a now says ys the gentleman it l says says Donal DanaI that th Im to put a coal to that thai heap hep of straw in the corner there and nd that tb t very soon the thief will be an un the floor floorA AM AX A right sas the gentleman udo do doso doso so Donal looked under Ma hi eyes at the girl and she he was ready to drop in a n fainting fist Bit lt in the corner but Donal mind her het one bit He took a coal out of the the fire and put it to the edge of Qt the straw and enl the next minute the straw was all aU in one one blaze and up out of the of the straw with loth a yell ell arid screech jumps the lad who was hid there and leaps into the mid middle middle mIddIe dle dIe of ot the floor And the gentleman he let a and a roar out of him and he lie jumped after hun him and came down on The broad of his back as hard bard as he be could wallop with the flail The fellow jumped and anil d and the gentle gentleman g man flailed and und flailed ailed and whacked and w Walloped him up and down and around the house with the lad hopping and nd yelling till at last he got a n chance chanc and an burst out of the back door and amI away And the girl had fallen into a i id i dead dated d d faint in the corner lorner When he di disappeared appeared the gentle gentleman man rubbed the sweat swe t off his Itis brow browand bro and ii he dawn and i he to Donal How much will you take for that hide That filde tUde says ys he canO ruO be sold for an au old sung sungI HI I wouldn expert it says tire tit gen gentleman genI tieman W Well the th price of it to you as a friend a n says says ys he is three bushel bu heS of gold and three bushels of silver Agreed says sas s the gentleman And with small delay down In the room he measured m Into bags the gold and the silver And when Donal got them he lost no notime notime notime time starting and setting out for home And nd on the evening after he came home he lie went over to Conal to bor borrow borrowa borrow row rowa a bushel measure tonel onal loaned him the Ithe he bushel measure m but after atter he was gone he wondered the devil Donal DanaI wanted with it so he be said to himself as it was night he would go SO over and peep into his window So over oyer after aner Donal he went and peeped into the window and he sees my any brave brne Donal mb out the bushels of gold md Ind nd silver to see if he had the right measure Then in on top of him then and there he be walked and he asked him nim how ho did he come by so 60 much gold and silver r Well Veil says saya Donal DanaI says he when wh n you killed my poor old horse on Sun Sunday Sunday day last you thought you oU were doing d me an ill turn and instead of tl you ou never nev did me a better turn in your life What d da you mean says Conal Its ts this tit I says Donal Dorial Theres a gentleman J says ays he living near the town beyond and he commenced to describe to ConI the house the man lived In that bought his hide and that gentleman wants to have nine milMon bank not no tap an all ll within nine days and in order they will Wear near well wellI I he will have them made mude out of noth nothing nothIng I ing only tanned hides and hes buying up all the tanned hides that he can get in the country and giving three bushels of if gold and three bushels of silver apiece 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