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Show Mrs. Murphy's Idea. There were two suitors after Mary Ann Murphy's hand. One was Grocer O'Flaherty,.. whom her father and mother strongly urged her to marry, and the other was Saloonkeeper Fin-negan. Fin-negan. Mary, herself, favored the latter lat-ter and married him despite all her father and mother could say and do. One day after she was settled In her new home she came down to see her parents and exhibited a new gold watch her husband had given her. "Ah!" said her mother disapprovingly, disapprov-ingly, "If ye took my dewice and your father's dewice, Mary i Ann, 'tisn't a gould watch ye'd be havin' in yer pock&t, but a good eight-day clock." Judge. |