1947-12-20 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1947.

SIR DOMINICK SARSFIELD

(Continued from Page 9)

and

'money

came the best Arst of March 1 over richer, down with my friends."

hand

the

sat

And the receipt, and so on, wid Well, Sir Dominick went home slipped away, when he seen fifty other thing as bad.

Je was a frightened man, and well turn things were takin', and it was I command all the pleasure and the Well by the time the night of he might be. But in a little time not for from the stroke of twelve to grow aller in his when Sir Dominick, sitting at the The bargain the 20th of October came round he he began glory of the world. dates from this day, and the lense was a'most ready to lose his senses mind. Anyhow, he got out of debt head of his table, swears, "this in

quick. all the demands that was very is out at midnight on the last day with I told you; and in the year" he told risin' up again him on all sides, and him the year, it was easy reckoned, nothing to meet them but the help but I forget and if you'd of the one dreadful friend he had rather wait," he says, "for eight to depind on at night in the oak

wood down there below. months and twenty-eight days, be-

wag nothing for it but fure you sign the writin, you may. So there if you meet me here. But I can't to go

to go through with the business that do n greni deal for you in

already, and about the went last, he takes meantime; and if you don't

there

the wa sign

same hour as he

tumbling in to make him and everything he took In

made prospered, and he never wager, or played a game, but he won! and for all that, there not a poor man on the estate that was not happler than Sir Dominick.

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Sir

of

"It ain't the first o' March," says Mr. Hernan of Ballyvoreen., He was a scholard, and always ker' an almanack.

"What is it, then?” Bays Dominici, startin' up, and droppin the Indie the

at him as if he had two heads, then, all you get from me, up to off the little Crucifix he wore round he took again to his old ways:

THE 1:0 twenty-ninth

And that time, will vanish away, and he neck, for he was a Catholic, and

clock you'll be just as you are tonight, his Gospel, and his bit of the thrue for, when the money came back, February, leap year," says he. and ready to hang yourself on the cross that he had in a locket, for all came back, and there wore hounds just as they were talkin' the first tree your meet."

aince he took the money from the and horses, and wine galore, and no strikes twelve; and my grandfather, who was half asleep in a chair by Evil One he was growin' frightful in end of company, and grand doin's, Sir himself, and got all he could to and divarsion, up here at the great the fire in the hall, openin' his cycz, he guard hun from the power of the house. And some nald Sir Dominick sees a altort square fellow with

under his hat, big devil. But tonight, for his life, he was thinkin' of gettin' married; and cloak on, and long, black

you as daren't take them with him. So he more sald he

troubiln him, standin' just there where gives them into my

ugain' grandfather's there was somethin but anyhow, bushin' out from

one the bit o' light shinin' more than common, and so hands without u word.

to all, away he wall. It was a dine still night, and the night, unknownst

goes to the lunesome onit-wood.

"Tell your master," says he, in an moon not so bright, though, now

over Well, when Sir Dominick got into awful valee, ke the grow! as the first time was shinin'

by appoint- down on

the wood this time, he grew more baist, "that I'm here the the heath and tock, and

downstairs lonesome cak-wood below him. in dread than ever; and he was on ment, and expect him

the point of turnin' and lovin' the this minute." place, when who should! he see, seated on a big stone undher one of close beside him, but my gentleman.

of 'Well, the end

It was, Dominick chose to walt, and come back to the house with a bag full for money, a round your

n'most. hat My grandfather was glad enough, mny be sure, to see the master ule and sound again so soon. Into nute the kitchen he bangs again. and swings the bag o' money on table; and he stands up straight, and heaves up his shoulders like mon that has just got shut of a load: and he looks at the bag, and my grand- father looks at him, and from him to it, and back again. Sir Dominick looked as white as a sheet, and says he:

the

"I don't know, Con, what's in it; It's the heaviest fond I ever carried."

out of the mint.

There

A

hair

BCO the

of 0

the room

heart, beat thick as he drew near it. There was not a sound the trees. In place of looking the JP goes my grandfather, by these

even the distant bark of not

very steps you are sitting on. Bine young gentleman in gold Ince the village behind

"Tell him can't come down yet." A dog from

and grand clothes he

he appeared be- Wha not ព lone fore, he was now in rags. he looked

says Sir Dominick, and he turns to him.

spot In the country somer round, Softer and slower he slept twice the size he had been, and his the company in the room, and says as he got, once more, in under the face mutted with soot, and he had he with a cold sweat shinin' on his gentlemen, by: branches of the oak-threes, had a murtherin' big steel haromer, as face. "For God's sake.

វាង heavy as a half-handbred, with a

will any of you jump from the win- ΤΕ

priest here?" HE Reered shy of openly the he. when he got in a bit, near where handle a yard long, across a knees in, and bring

one and he made my grandfather

be met with the bad spirit before. It was so dark under the tree, he One looked at another and no heap up a roaring fre of turf and he stopped and looked round him, did not see him quite clear for some knew what to malte of it, and in wood, and then, at Inst, he opens and felt himself, every bit, turning time.

the meantime, up comes my grand- and, sure enough, 'twas stuffed full as cowld as a dead man, and you

He stood up, and he looked awful father again, and says he, tremblin', o golden guinens, bright and new, may be sure he did not feel much 03 if they were only that mate better when he seen the same man all entirely. And what passed be- "He says, sir, unless you go down to

my him, he'll come up to you." aleppin from behind the big tree tween them in that discourse

But Sir "I don't understand this, gentle- When he was done countin, and that was touchin his elbow a'most. Framfather never heered.

Dominick was ns black as night, men, I'll see what it means," says it wasn't fur from daylight when "You found the money that time came, Sir Dominick made says he, "but it was not enough. No afterwards, and hadn't a laugh for Sir Dominick, trying to put a face

on it, and walkin' out o' anything nor a word n'most for any my grandfather swear not to tell a

mitter, you shall have enough and one, and he only grew worse and like a man through the press-room. word about it.

to spare. I'll see after your luck worse, and darker and darker. And with the hangman waitin' for him the eight months and

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now this thing, whatever It was. outside. Down the stairs he comes, twenty-eight days were pretty near and I'll give you a hint whenever

time you use can serve you; and any

used to come to him of its own and two or three of the gentlemen spent and ended, Sir Dominick re- an

want to see me you

have

only to 1:1

accord, whether he wanted it or no peeping over the banisters, to see. turned to the house here with

come down here, and call my face accor

sometimes In one shape, an

and some-

My grandfather was walking six or troubled nind, in doubt what was to mind, and wish me present.

You times in another, Tonesome eight steps behind him, and he seen best to be done.

stranger take a stride out to townrds shon't owe a shilling by the end of As the day drew near,

be ridin' home night when he'd

meet Sir Dominick, and catch him end

of October, Sir Dominick the year, and you shall never miss places, and sometimes at his side by the

up in his arms, and whirl his head grew only more and more troubled the right card, the best throw, and alone, until at last he lost heart al-

that horse. Arc

you together and sent for the priest.

against the wall, and wi in mind.

willing?"

hall-doore flies open, and out goes One time he made up his mind to F

the candles, and the turf and wood- have no more to say to such things. The young gentleman's voice al-

wind out nor to speak again with the like of must stuck in his throat, and his

with him a long ashes flyin' with the them he met with in the wood of hair was rising on his head, but he THE priest was

time and when he heered the the hall-fire, ran in a drift o' sparks

along the ficore by his feet. Murron. Then, again, his heart did get out a word or two to signify

and with that whole story, he rode off all the way fatled him when he thought of his that he consented:

for the bishop, and the bishop came debts, and he not knowing where the Evil One handed him a needle, to turn. Then, only a week before and bid him give him three drops here to the treat house next day,

Sir Dominick

Robe the day. everything began to go of blood from his arm; and he took and he rev

al advice.

He toult him he must give DOWN

Koes the hall-doore. Some comes wrote them in the cup of a scorn, and One man wrong with him.

swearin', and from London 10 say thut

Sir ave him a pen, and bid him write over dicin', Domtalek pold three thousand sam pounds to the wrong man, and must come worths that he repeated, and drinkin', and all bad company, and runnin' up, and more runnin' down,

the

When

the

winning

Sir Dominick did not

sometimes

..

anch

understand, live a vartuous, steady life until the pay it over again: another demand on two thin slips of parchment. He seven years bargain was out, and if ed a debt he never heard of before: took one himself and the other he. the divil didn't come and another, in Dublin, denied the sunk in Sir Dominick's arm at the minute after the stroke payment of a thundherin big bill, place where he drew the blood, and the first morning of the and Sir Dominick could nowhere he closed the flesh over it.

Loved deaf girl, so

invented phone

for him the of twelve month

the

runs the ginulenien. Bang

all over with They lifted up the Sir Dominick. with lights. It was corpse, and put its shoulders again' the wall: but there was not a gasp lett in him. Ho Was cowld and

ch, he was safe out of the bar. stiffenin' already.

more

There wo5 not

than eight or ten months to run now be fore the seven yeats wor out. and he lived all the time according to the bishop's advice, as strict as if he was in retreat."

Well, you may guess he felt quare rough when the mornin' of the 28th of February came.

to

Pal Donovan was coming up the great house late that night and after he passed the little brook that house the carriage track up to the crosses, and about fifty steps to this side of it, his dog, that was by lis side makes a sudden wheel, and springs over the wall and sela i yowlin' inside you'd hear a mile

(wo away: and that minute

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The priest came up by appoint- passed him by silence, goin' down ment, and Sir Dominck and

his

EVENTY-ONE years ago together and solemnly dismissed raverence wor together in the room the first patent for the the-Invention-us-un-interesting: you see there and ke-up their r. till the clock struck telephone was

prayers together. granted. The toy."

Beli offered a half share in his in- twelve, and good hour after, at invention which was to make vention to a friend fur £10. The 1101

disturbance. a sign of a it possible for you to talk to offer was turned down. The chance nothing came near them, and thu foreign countries attracted of a fertune was thrown away.. only moderate interest.

Alexander Graham Bell was born

Charlotte-slient. Els in South burgh, on March 3, 1847. After graduating as a doctor he emigrated to America in his early twenties,

He had no selentitle knowledge of electricity. But he knew

greal deal about the construction of the human car and the vocal chords.

Crossed lines

The

nor

from the house, one of them short and square, and the other like Str Dominick-in-shope, but there was trees where Hitle light under the he was, and they looked only like shadows; and as they passed him by he could not hear the sound of

their feet and he drew back to the wall frightened; and when he got to the great house, he found all in confusion, and the master's body, with the head smushed piecus. lying just on that spot.

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priest step' that night in the house Dominick's, in the room next Sir In 1879 the first telephone ex- and all went over as comfortable as changes were opened in Britain-in could be and they shook hands, and

to tines kissed like two comrades after wit- London and Glasgow. often became crossed, and subseri-ning a battle. bers were told that, after a little So, now, Sir Durninick thought he practice, they would quickly learn might as well have a pleasant even- the technique of distinguishing one ing, after all his fastin' and pray- ing; and be sent rotind to half a conversation from another.

Bell left the commercial develop-dozen of the and dine gith him. Etiek the exact site of the body, and.

neighbouring genti Invention to others men to come ment of his and turned his active mind to other and his raverence stayed aid dined as I looked, the shadow deepened, pursuits,

alsu, and a roarin' bowl o punch the red stais of sunlight vanished And when he fell in love with a He was responsible for Canada's they had, and no eut o' wine, and iron the wall, and the sun had gone

ma-the swearin' and dice. deaf girl he became absorbed with first heavier-than-air flying the idea of inventing a machine chine, which commentators in 1909 and guineus changing hands, and "double- songs and stories. that wouldn't do which would enable his sweetheart variously described as a to hear--and all the other dient deck aerodrome." an "aurosial, and anyone good to hear, and the priest twilight. people in the world as well.

"airship," I flew 20 miles in 24

Problem solved

suc-

So his experiments begun. But minutes. when. almost by accident, he

Bell, warning England of the need forecast air, ceccled in transmitting Found to be strong in the along a wire by electricity, he that enemy flying machines might realised he had discovered sonte "wreck London in the twinking of thing prunter than a deaf-ald. He an eye."

And he anticipated project Lor

had solved the problem of speech He sought a means of enabling transmission by electrical means. animals to talk. His "Watson, come here, I want busie English"

perhaps the "World English"

you," have become

most famous "first words" in history, language.

For those Instructions to his

sistant in the next room were

519- the

first intelligible sentence ever to be

sent over a wire..

ns a universal

Bell's centenary

The association which has been Bell's centenary

The first telephone was in stalled set up to mark

in Bell's homestead in Brantford, hopes to raise £300,000 to endow a

Ontario.

In 1877 'he went to London to demonstrate his invention to Queen Victoria.

Graham Bell professorship at Edinburgh University.

Mr,

Its Joint honorary secretary,

Quain, worked for Bell at one

John

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"Hello girls" had not then been

steeple of Bow Church. Astonished Londoners pald a penny to say "How do you do?" to man at the thought of. Men were employed as operators, and it was part of their

top.

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But London business men were job to fell the trees, make the poles, doubtful about the now-fangled put up the wires, service

preferred speaking struments, and collect the bills.

Edwin Brown A committeo of them got

idea.

tubes.

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