Show PARNELL WAS superstitious th training of vs old narae blatt B effect on bilm A little light is thrown OB the somewhat mystical character of the late mr parnell by some curious stories says the westminster gazette A superstitious strain seemed says mr healy to thread its way through the irilli leaders mind like a vein of marble when he was a boy he had an old nurse a mrs who scared him with horrible stories and he never got over it he would commence no important business on a friday he started if anyone offered to help him to salt and he would drink no wine at table unless the decanter came round from right to left these foibles affected even the legislation he sought to compass when he and maurice healy had together drafted in kilmainham Kilmain ham jail the amending land bill afterward brought in by mr he discovered that the final draft contained thirteen clauses and it on the table as if he had been stung thia will never do he said sternly and mr healy could not move him it was late in the afternoon copt hour approached and another days delay might prevent the draft reaching the queens printer in london in time for distribution to members before the second reading A hasty dissection of the bill was made but only to disclose that it could not well be thorn of a clause what could bo hit upon there in bewilderment and anxiety stood the statesman and draftsmen in her maje prison at kilmainham Kilmain ham eying each other in despair in the darkening cell as the minutes to post hour slipped away at last a gleam flashed from Pa raella eyes half ironical half tl have it said he add those cursed clauses of yours and that will get us out of the difficulty 1 thus frere tho teneta of mrs saved from desecration |