Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — A Shrewd Irish Boy. [ARTICLE]

A Shrewd Irish Boy.

Daniel O’Connell, the great Irish orator, .viien taking a- ‘ride tid the neighbprljoqd v of hja house, liad oacasion to ask an urchin to open a gate fffr him. The little fellow complied with much alacrity, and looked up with such au honest pleasure at rendering the slight, service-that O'Connell, by way of sayipg something—anything—asked:7 „ t. “What is vopr ngjpg,. my boy r.;, i%f “Dfiiiiel O’Connell, sir,” replied he, stoutly../* f“ And who’s your.father,?” demanded lie astonished Liberator. ,/ 4 ~ , “Daniel sir:“ * . O’Connell muttqied a word or two,j -below' his breath, and .then added, attoud: I see you again.l’ll give you«BidiDgarishly, on, he soon.foi-got the .apd fpllto thinking of graver, ‘ patters, when, after tyayeling.. sopae {Bfiles, he found his path obstructed by some fallen tipber,„ which a J>oy wm ‘stoutly endeavoriug to remove. On looking ‘more clokelv, he : discovered it .jtp be the sarnO boy he had "met' in the /ffiorning. • j v ' i‘.:':“What !” cried hq, “how dq you cpnie td be heie now •’’ Y . .. . ,ci“You,said,,sir, the nqxt.tiipe.ypu seeh ‘me, you'd giyp.nao sixpence,” said the little fellow, wiping the perspiration ■from his brow. “Here it is,” said Daniel; you are my son—never a doubt of it.” s