Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — WHILE “GEORGE” LOOKED ON [ARTICLE]

WHILE “GEORGE” LOOKED ON

> Real Blarney Stone. Three or four of us made up a little party to go to Blarney castle to Improve dur ability in the art of talking by kissing the Blarney stone, says CapL Albert B. Wbnham in “Spun Yarns of a Naval Officer.” The saying that all roads leal to Rode applies somewhat to Blarney, too, but the ffish miles—l cannot think how they reconcile them with the miles recorded by the taxicab indicators 1 -However, we got-there, and, bounding up the stone stairs, reached the top of the tower. Two persons were already there, an old man and one of tiffi loveliest women I ever saw. We were rather pressed for time* and soproceeded to kiss the stone. The Blarney sttme Yaw the outside of the tower, about three) feet down, if you wish really to kiss at/you must be let down headfirst, dotoetrfcMand be hauled up. All of the tower is a hangfog Ing about a foot f/om the tower wall, built to enable/ era, when the castle - bulling water melted lWkbh>< top of the enemy operating On Wtofront door. * \ Haring let ohq another, cfcyvn, we finished under the wondering gaze of the lovely woman. “Exctj&e me,.gentlemen,” she said, “but wifatjiaye you been doing?” T We told her. „ I With a disdainful look she turned to the old fellow and saiCV'Tliere, George, I told you that, pointing to a meek-looklng Atonq inside, “was not the Blarney stone; and I have not kissed the Blarney stone! I have not come all the way from America to go away without doing it!” As she said that she looked appealingly at us, for George did not seem inclined, to rise to the occasion. The end of it was that we lashed her dress round, her ankles, lowered her, and pulled her up triumphant, “There,- George, now I can go back to America and say that I have kissed the Blarney stone!” she cried. l am bound to saj that George, who proved to be her husband, did not look happy or pleased. His reputation for telling the truth-had suffered, and I am pretty sure that he wished we never had come.