Two boys were engaged to watch cattle for an Irish dealer at the Newton-Stewart
Market on Friday, After some hours' duty the cattle were sold to a farmer. The
latter, believing they were dear, asked for a luckpenny, "Shure," said the dealer,
"I have bestowed them." "Weel, weel," said the farmer, " yer the hardest dealer
I ha'e come across; tae what part o' Ireland dae ye belang?" Dealer—"County Down."
Another Irishman aside replied, " From where they shoot the landlords." (Exit
farmer.) The boys, one a little older than the other, having fulfilled the duties,
to which they had been engaged, stepped for-ward to have a settlement. The younger
boy observed he was not paid equal to his senior, and stepping back with an air
of indignation, reminded the dealer they were both engaged together, the duty
and time being equally the same. Then bursting into tear from disappointment
and anger, raised a stick above the head of the dealer, and assured him he would
let him have it if he did not equalise matters. The dealer reluctantly ...