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"Well, us uns'll have to keep our clacks shut 'bout 'is bein' here, then," she acquiesced, "an' an' Andy'll have to keep in the garret till the man in Auburn coughs up, that air all, huh?... He can come down sometimes when it air a rainin' hard or dark nights when there ain't nobody around, an' an' darlin', ye can offen chat with 'im when I air outside watchin' fer folks.... Now, can't ye, Daddy?"
Which he may be a fool, but he sure ain't a plumb fool. But, speakin' personal, this trail looks more and more interestin' to me. Here he's left Buck's hoss, so he ain't exactly a hoss thief yet. And he's promised to pay for the pinto, so that don't make him a crook. But when the pinto gives out, Andy'll be in country where he mostly ain't known.
"Kittens ain't everything," he said mildly. "But I've seen the time when kittens wa'n't to be despised. You jest set that way a little mite, Mr. Woodworth, and I'll beach her even." "One thing I'm glad of," said the artist, as the boat grated along the pebbles. "You can pay Andy." "Andy'll be glad," responded Uncle William, "but it'll be quite a spell before he has a chance to."
Mike looked rather disheartened. "You niver let 'em get hurted wanst, did you, Moike? And that's doin' well, too. I hope Andy'll be comin' up to you in that." So encouragingly did his mother smile upon him as she said these last words that he visibly brightened. He was not tall and slender like Pat, but rather short and of a sturdy build. And he tied on his apron with determination in his eye.
The widow nodded two or three times in a convinced manner. "To be sure. That's the reason," she said. "And it's proud I am to have for my third son a b'y that can give the reasons of things. And there's another permotion we was forgettin'. Andy'll take Moike's place, so he will, and look after the little b'ys.
Some seem tae think that Jennie wall never be willing to marry Andy the noon, and live wi' him in the wee hoose he can get for their hame. She got Andy's job, maybe. And she's been making more money than ever Andy did before he went awa'. Here's what they're telling me wull happen. Andy'll come hame, all eager to see his Jenny, and full of the idea of marrying her at once.
Betting was growing brisk, and if their faith had not been so shaken they could have got long odds on Andy. "I betche he don't win out," Happy Jack insisted with characteristic gloom. "Yuh wait till he goes up agin that blue roan. They're savin' that roan till the las' day and I betche Andy'll git him. If he hangs on till the las' day." Happy Jack laughed ironically as he made the provision.
Do you think, b'ys, Andy'll be a lawyer when he comes from college?" "Why, mother?" asked Pat. "'Cause I don't want him to be. He ain't got it in him to be comin' down hard and sharp on folks, and so he won't be a good wan. He'll be at the law loike little Jim at puddin's. You niver was to coort, was you, b'ys?" Pat and Mike confessed that they had never been at court. "I knowed you hadn't.
"I sure do hope Andy'll win out," he added simply. "Hope? Why, damn it, yuh know he'll win!" stormed Irish. Men in their vicinity caught the belligerence of the tone and turned about, thinking there was trouble, and the Happy Family subsided into quieter discussion.
A b'y that can give reasons can look after 'em wonderful, so he can, if he don't get so full of his reasons that he forgets the little b'ys entoirely. But Andy'll not be doin' that. I niver told you before, but your father's favorite brother was named Andy, and a great wan he was for reasons, as I've heard. "Now breakfast's ready, so 'tis. I took my toime to it, for permotions always takes toime.
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