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Show B MtsfrfS. H Pat Moriarity is a victim of occasional epilepsy, K but as lie is usually very conservative about H where he has his'n, no trouble would probably H have resulted from the ailment had he not teamed K with another Hibernian whom nature liad en-H en-H (lowed with a similar dispensation. H Pat came by his epilepsy honestly, but the same could scarcely be said of Mike. Michael's trouble began several years ago, just after he had been lost for three days in the mountains, B with a notable absence of bacon and no other vis-Bible vis-Bible means of support. He eventually espied a B cabin where a Chinaman had just finished the K culinary work appertaining to the cooking of a BBboiler full of corn beef and cabbage for twelve BKminers living in the vicinity. Mike was somewhat JHwealc from exhaustion, but he succeeded in over-powering over-powering the cook and likewise accomplished the phenomenal feat of eating every item of the corn Bbeef and cabbage. Right after that Mike's epi-Hlepsy epi-Hlepsy began and, what is more important, he col-jMided col-jMided with and became a warm friend of the Bnaimcd Moriarity. B The two foreclosed one day on some gold H'diggins" upon on the Snake river. Pat one day was industrious on a high embankment with a pick and Mike was contentedly gazing with a shovel, in the vicinity of a cast-iron wheelbarrow, about fifteen feet below. Suddenly Pat's epilepsy grappled with him on the edge of the precipice and before he could arrange for a cosy place to fall on, he plunged over the embankment. On theway down he struck Mike, whose epilepsy immediately became rampant, and he likewise threw an epileptic and landed with it on the other side of the wheelbarrow. wheelbar-row. In about twenty minutes each of them came cut of it, and the mutual respects they inaugurated inaugur-ated made the falls of the Snake sound like a far-off far-off zephyr. The doirty, blubber-mouth Mick," said Pat afterwards, af-terwards, "came ayent me whin I was at work on the bank and pushed me over." "The Irish assassin," replied Mike, "shtooa on The edge of the hill and threw the wheelborrow on me, and the hathen lost his balance and fell with it." And now when Pat's name is mentioned to Mike, epilepsy seizes him and hurls him into thp nearest corner; and if anyone cares to mention Mike's name to Pat it is just as well to be on the safe side, and order the ambulance first. |
