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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN : FEBRUARY 27, 1877.
Among the Hoggartys.
Everybody withn twenty-five miles
of Bogmoor r.-nicinhers Daniel Hog*
’garty. He was one of the old stock
of Irish gentlemen, and a very re
markable man he was, too. as any
body in Bogmoor will tell yon. I
* don't boast of him, although I con
fess it is with a feeling of great satis
faction that I realize the relationship
between the late lamented Daniel
Hoggarty and myself, for he was my
father.
My mother (heaven rest her soul,
for she was an angel, if one ever
came to earth,) died while I was yet
a boy. Whatever I am, all the good
there is in me, I owe to her. I don't
mean any disrepect to thelloggnrlys
bv the above, though everybody
knows that Tim Bouncy—who is my
grandfather and on my. mother’s side
— was mightily put about, when he
found that l.is daughter, Peggy
Bouncy, was about to marry Dan
lloggarty; not but that the Hog-
gartvs were good enough, but, you
see, the Ko meys bad always bold
themselves as better than their neigh
bors. But that is neither here nor
there.
But, as I was saying—before I rati
off with my grandfather, Tim
Rooney—my mother made me what
I am, morailv or spiritually I in
herit her nature, her loving disposi
tion, her •warm heart. If I was a
woman, I should be one of the most
loving, tender and confiding crea
tures in the world. I’m so tender
hearted, that it is impossible for me
to say “ No” to a female. *
To proceed with my story, it will
be necessary to inform you that the
late Mr. Hoggarty had four brothers.
My father was the eldest of the family.
I was his only child, and singular
enough, every on** of my nudes had
just one child apiece, and every one
of them were girls. Just like all the
Hoggarty females, they were all
beauties. In fact, the Hoggartys of
the Icmale sex have all been hand
some, clear back to Bridget Hoggarty,
who, by-the-way^ was the m .st^beau
tiful woman in Ireland, besides being!
the only daughter of Pat lloggarty,
who, you know, was the great-grand
father of all the lloggarty sin Ireland.
Well, as I was saying, my father
had four brothers. First, there was
Pat lloggarty, a namesake of the old
Hoggarty himself, who, as everybody
knows, was a real live hud and the
lather of Bridget Hoggarty, the most
beautiful woman in all Ireland. Then
there was Miek Hoggarty—for whom
I was named—Tim Hoggarty and
Barney Hoggarty; and they were
.brothers of my father, before he died,
which makes them tny uncles, of
course, and the best of it is, there
are four cousins, my uncles* daughters,
you see, all beautiful as hotiris are
raid to be; though, as I’m no Turk,
and never saw an houri in my life, of
course, I don’t know; but anyway,
I’m willing to bet on the Hoggartys
for beauty against all the hotiris of
the Turk’s paradise.
Molliu lloggarty’ is Uncle Pat
Hoggarty’s daughter, and though she
may not be quite so handsome as
Kate Hoggarty, Barney’s only child,
you know that you might have seen
in your travels a sweet little creature,
with 'Hoggarty eyes, you’see, just
like streams of gold; still, she is a
beauty in her way, with eyes as black
as sloes, and hair of the same hue,
which she has took from her moth r,
who was*a McFadden before she
married my uncle, Pat Hoggarty.
Biddy Hoggarty—a namesake of
Bridget Hoggarty’s, that I’ve been
telling you about, who was the only
daughter of the father of all the Hog
garty’s—is uncle Miek Hoggarty’s
- daughter, and a fine, strapping girl
she is, with a form'like Venus, and a
neat little foot that would make a
duck blush to look at. And yon
should see the pretty brown eyes she
lias, and the sweet lloggarty nose,
with a lip on the end of it like the
Inob on the end of a shillalah. And
Biddy had a string of lovers that
would reach from Cork Vo Limerick.
Then tliero was Norah, uncle Tim
Hoggarty’s daughter, and my own
first cousin, who was quite as hands
some as Biddy Hoggarty, with
cheeks like red velvet pincushions,
and such a sweet pair of lips, that
were just like eating honey-comb to
kiss them. And her eyes were just
like violets, you tee, so that they
drove every man in Bogmoor crazy
with love of her, from Diek Carey,
the piper, down to Teddy Regan,
who lives over beyant, the bogs.
When my lather, through the
agency of typhoid fever, became the
late lamented Daniel Hoggarty, I
found myself quite alone in tbe world,
pr I mean to .say’, I should have
been, but for four uncles, four aunts
and four cousins, who, I am happy to
say, didn’t leave me alone at all, for
every one of my cousins came over
after tbe funeral to keep house for
me; but as Mrs. Flaughertv, who,
by-the-way, was my mother’s third
eousin, bad kept bouse for father for
tbe last dozen years and over, I
couldn’t think of parting with her;
and so I told my cousins that I wished
everything to go on in the old way.
“To be sure,” said cousin Kate.
“Yes,” said Bidily, “till a Mrs.
Hoggarty comes into the bouse.”
I smiled, though I made no replv.
Of course, I looked forward to a day
when there would be a Mrs. Hog
garty in tbe bouse. I can’t say, but
I looked farther to day when there
would he the little lloggartys by tbe
bushel. .
Well, it was nearly a year after
that, when I -received an invitation
from uncle Pat Hoggarty’ to visit
him at Hoggarty Hall, which, as
everybody knows, was built by old
Hoggarty, the father of Hoggartys in
Ireland The letter said that all my
uncles, aunts and cousins, were going
to he there, and it would be a burn
ing shame if I didn’t make one of the
party.
“ To be sure, I will,” said I, to Mrs.
Flaughertv.
“Of course,” said Mrs. Flaughertv;
“ and I’ll be packing your trunk this
very minute.”
“Sure, you are a jewel, * Mrs.
Flaugherty,” said I.
“ Airali, now, v vou’re a joking
.r .".V.
a joke at all,” said I.
“Faith, but you’re'a real Hoggarty,
then, always flatterin’ the women.”
“ Divil cave to me,” said I;
“wouldn’t I be a brute, if I didn’t?”
“ All, which of your pretty cousins
will ye bring back wid ye for a wife?”
“ Faix, but you’re asking me too
mueh now, ma’am,” said I; “ though,
between you and I, ma’am, I’d be
proud of any one of them for a wife.”
“ And well you might be, loo,
Miek Hoggarty,” Mrs. Flaugherty
said, as she left the room.
Well, three days alter that, found
me at Hoggarty Hall, and a grand
old pile of buildings it is, too, with a
splendid estate besides, and sure,
pretty Molly Hoggarty was heiress
to it all; and who would’nt take the
estate with such an encumbrance ?
All the Hoggartys were there—
Molly, Biddy, Norah and Kate, be
sides uncle Mick, Tim and Barney,
with every one of my aunts on my
father’s side, and a rousing good time-
we had, too.
It was the evening of the second
day after my arrival, that my nude
Pat and I were sitting together on
the lawn, smoking our pipes. Mv
uncle was very quiet for a Hoggarty,
find I was just wondering what the
deuce could be the matter with him,
when he broke out with—
“ Mick?”
“Sir!” said I, taking my pipe from
my lips.
“It’s every man’s duty to marry!"
“And a very disagreeable duty,
Faix, as old Hoggarty, the father of
all the Hoggartys, once said, I re
plied.”
“ Of course, you think of marrying
eome time, Mick ?” said my finele,
not minding my reference to the wis
dom of tbe father of all the Ho_j-
gariys. ■
“ Well, I wouldn’t wonder but
I do.” •
“Have you any lady in view,
Mick ?”
And as I was just looking toward
the bouse, and saw pretty Mollie
Hoggarty leaning from the window,
aud scattering crumbs to the birds,
I just answered:
“Yes, to be sure; and a inigbty
pretty woman she is, too, I added,
by way of a joke; though! spoke of
her as being literally in view, and not
at all the sense that uncle Pat took
it, for he turned around,-and looking
toward Mollie, he said:
“Yes; that’s the woman for you.”
“Just so,” said 1, still joking.
“ Did you ever speak to her about
it?” be asked, seriously.
“ Never a word,” I answered, some
what alarmed, for I had thought as
mueh of marrying my uncle as I had
of taking my eousin to wife.
“Not a look?”
“ Faix, but I’ve looked as though
I’d ate her, sure,” sa : d I.
“ Never mind, I’ll make it all
right, Miek,” cries my uncle, jump
ing up. “It would be a burning
shame not to keep tbe Hoggayty
property together as much as possi
ble. Just wait here a bit, till I send
Molly down;” and uncle Pat was half
way to the bouse before I could say
:i word.
“ It’s the property you’re after, tny
honey, is it?’’ said I. Faith, Mr.
Hoggarty, I remarked confidentially
to myself, if you go on this way,
you’ll wake up some fine morning
with your eyes shut, and find your
self married ; and just then, I caught
a glimpse of Mary’s white dress
through the trees. By the seven
pipes that played before Moses, as
the father of all the Hoggartys used
to say, where’ll I hide now ?
“ Good morning, Miek,” raid a
voice.
“ Who the divil are ye ?” said I,
making her believe I didn’t see her,
till she came out from behind the
hedge. “ It’s Mollie, is it ?”
“To be sure,” said she. *
Of course it was, and she was just
as bewitching as a pink, aud her eyes
shone like two stars, mid when she
put her little soft hand in ini.it*, the
Hoggarty blood got the upjier hand
of me, (the Hoggartys were all fa
mous for loving the women,) and the
first tiling I knew, I had Mollie in
my arms, slipping kisses l'roi
)ips, jus) ns sv ty^tjhi picks t 1
fruit from a chert J^Tree.
“ Do you love me, Miek ?*’
As the father of all the Hoggartys
used to say: “ What the divil could
a rliap sav to that but yes?” and
that is what I did say, to bo sure.
“ And we’ll be married in a month,
or my name’s not Miek Hoggarty,
tny colleen,” said I*; and I was going
to say more, only for Biddy Hog
garty who I saw coining down to
ward us.
“ I must go, Miek.”
“ To be sure,’’ said I, and taking a
kiss from her rosy lips, I let her go,
just in time to escape Biddy, who
came round the other 'side of the
hedge. Arrali * jewel, said I, is that
yourself’ I don’t know.
“Yes, Mick; but what ary you
doing here, making love to the
moon?” said Biddy.
“Faix, hut I would, if she were a
Hoggarty,” raid I.
“Why need yohbc always joking?’*
said Biddy.
u Divil a joke is that,** said I,
“ when every one of the Hoggarty
girls were horn beauties from the
fir.-t, Biddy Hoggarty, down to your
sweet self” •
“Faix, but you’ll be stenling'iny
heart, Miek Hoggarty, if you don’t
have done with your blarney,’* said
Biddy, blushing all over her sweet
face.
“ And sure, why not, when you’ve
already stole mine ?’’ and with that,
Biddy laid her head down upon my
bosom, and her soft brown eyes
were looking up at me for a kiss.
“Bad cess to you, Miek Hoggarty,’’
raid I to my. “ you can’t marry all
your cousins.”
“Bedad,” raii'i I, “I’m engaged,
Biddy.”
“To be sure, we ate now; and you
wouldn’t be proving false to one of
your own blood, Mick Hoggarty ?”
' “ Of course not, Bi<Uly avournecn ;
but blood an’ ’otuis, there’s Tim Ilog-
; garty, with his pipe in his mouth,
wondering th s way, and he’ll be
after catching you, if you dbn’t go
into the house.” .
Aud she bad hardly left me, be ore
uncle Tim stood besid me.
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“ I’ve been looking for yon, Mick,”
cried'my uncle.
“ Well, you’ve found me, then,”
said I.
“Fm in want of your advice, Miek.’’
“ And that’ll be worth a deal to
you; but what is it about ?’’
“ Well, then, to come to the point,
Norah has had an offer of marriage.”
“ Of course, she said yes; as what
woman wouldn’t?” cried I.
“Ahem! Norah will marry ac
cording to the wishes of her parents,’’
uncle Tint said,’’ looking over his
spectacles.
‘^To be sure,” said I; “ the Hog
gartys always were famous for that.”
“ Yo; know squire Morton, Mick?”
“ Of course. Is be tbe lucky man?”
“ He is wealthy, very.”
“True for you, sir,” said I.
“ lie has made proposals for our
daughter’s hand.”
“ Faith, lie couldn’t do better,”
raid I.
“ lie says lie loves her.”
“ ’Twould he a stepmother would
name him for that, sir.”
“ But she does not love him.”
“That’s where she’s right,’* sa'd 1.
“ She loves some one else.”
“ I’m in the same fix, sir,” said I.
“ You love ?”
“ Yes”
“ Who ?'’
I thought I wouldn’t break the
news too suddenly, and so I said:
“ Iler father is a Hoggarty, sir.”
“ A lloggarty ?’’
“ Two of’em,” said I.
“ A Hoggarty. Do you mean it ?”
and uncle Tim smiled
“ To be sure, I do.”
“ And she loves you, Miek.”
“So she said,” I replied ; hut my
uncle took no notice of mv last an-
\
swer.
“ Norah ! Norah ! where are you?”
“ Here, father,” she answered,
coming towards us.
“He loves you, Norah, lie has
just told me so—he has told me all,”
and nude Tim left us in a hurry.
“ T’undor an’ ’onus! What’s this?’’
said I.
I’m thine till death, Miek.” '
“The divil you arc,” said I. • f “The proof of -tbe ^pudding, is the chewing, of the bag.”
“Kssine. .'.irk.”
“ I’d do that same till morning,”
said I. “ You' have sweet lips for
kissing, like a dish of ripe strawber
ries, smothered with cream.”
“ Michel, darling—”
“ Hoggarty, you mean,” said I.
•* When shall we be one ?**
“ That’s what I’d like to know, for
I’m four already,’’ 'said I. “ Faith,
but I’m puzzled now.”
“ It’s getting late,” said Norah. “I
must go : in.” ,
“ Goodnight, Norali.”
“ Goodnight, Michel, dear.”
“Now, here’s a situation that
would puzzle tbe father of all the
Hoggartys,” said I, after Norah had
left me. What am I to do? Faix,
but I have it—I’ll bang myself, and
then won’t I be even with them ?
But isn’t it lucky that I did not meet
Kathleen, to-night? Bedad, but the
Hoggartys always were lucky, said
I, walking towards tbe house.
I met aunt Maggie at the door.
,She was looking very rerious
“I’ve been waiting for you to
come, Mick,” she said.
“ Well, I’m here at last, then, aunt,
I answered; but what makes you
look so rad to-night ?**
“ Kathleen is ill.”
“ Seriously ?”
“ I hope hot.’’
“ Can I do anything, aunt ?”
“ Yes, yon might, but—”
“ Well, what is it, aunt ? Wliat
seems to be the nature of her illness?”
“ Trouble ot mind, I think.”
“ Well, that’s queer, for a Hog
garty’s mind to lie troubling her.
She’s the first Hoggarty that ever
was troubled with one, I think.”
“ It’s heart, I fear,” aunt Maggie
said, .solemnly.
Heart, is it?” sAid I.
“ She loves.”
“ Faix, but I’m troubled that same
way,” said I. • ,
“ Your love is reciprocated.”
“Of course, it is,” said I, “think
of Mollie and Biddy and Norah.”
“ She has asked for you many times
to-day. You will go tip and tell her
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