“But wan day th’ ship settled down steady, an’ ragin’ stummicks with it; an’ th’ Roscommon man shakes himself, an’ says, ’To ‘ell with th’ Prince iv Wales an’ th’ Dook iv Edinboroo,’ an’ goes out.  An’ near all th’ steerage followed; f’r th’ storm had done its worst, an’ gone on to throuble those that come afther, an’ may th’ divvle go with it.  ‘Twill be rest f’r that little Tipp’rary man; f’r th’ waves was r-runnin’ low an’ peaceful, an’ th’ babby have sthopped cryin’.

“He had been settin’ on a stool, but he come over to me.  ‘Th’ storm,’ says I, ’is over.  ‘Twas wild while it lasted,’ says I.  ’Ye may say so,’ says he.  ‘Well, please Gawd,’ says I, ’that it left none worse off thin us.’  ‘It blew ill f’r some an’ aise f’r others,’ says he.  ‘Th’ babby is gone.’

“An’ so it was, Jawn, f’r all his rockin’ an’ singin’.  An’ in th’ avnin’ they burried it over th’ side into th’ sea.  An’ th’ little man see thim do it.”

MAKING A CABINET.

“I suppose, Jawn,” said Mr. Dooley, “ye do be afther a governmint job.  Is it council to Athlone or what, I dinnaw?”

“I haven’t picked out the place yet,” said Mr. McKenna.  “Bill wrote me the day after election about it.  He says:  ‘John,’ he says, ’take anything you want that’s not nailed to the wall,’ he says.  He heard of my good work in the Twenty-ninth.  We rolled up eight votes in Carey’s precinct, and had five of them counted; and that’s more of a miracle than carrying New York by three hundred thousand.”

“It is so,” said Mr. Dooley.  “It is f’r a fact.  Ye must ’ve give the clerks an’ judges morphine, an’ ye desarve great credit.  Ye ought to have a place; an’ I think ye’ll get wan, if there’s enough to go round among th’ Irish Raypublicans.  ’Tis curious what an effect an iliction has on th’ Irish Raypublican vote.  In October an Irish Raypublican’s so rare people point him out on th’ sthreet, an’ women carry their babies to see him.  But th’ day afther iliction, glory be, ye run into thim ivrywhere,—­on th’ sthreet-car, in the sthreet, in saloons principally, an’ at th’ meetin’s iv th’ Raypublican Comity.  I’ve seen as manny iv them as twinty in here to-day, an’ ivry wan iv thim fit to run anny job in th’ governmint, fr’m directin’ th’ Departmint iv State to carryin’ ashes out an’ dumpin thim in th’ white lot.

“They can’t all have jobs, but they’ve got to be attinded to first; an’, whin Mack’s got through with thim, he can turn in an’ make up that cabinet iv his.  Thin he’ll have throuble iv his own, th’ poor man, on’y comin’ into fifty thousand a year and rint free.  If ’twas wan iv th’ customs iv th’ great raypublic iv ours, Jawn, f’r to appoint th’ most competent men f’r th’ places, he’d have a mighty small lot f’r to pick fr’m.  But, seein’ that on’y thim is iligible that are unfit, he has th’ divvle’s own time selectin’.  F’r Sicrety iv State, if he follows all iv what Casey