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"An' that, Molly, my dear," said Rooney, "if properly invisted, gives you an' me a clair income only think, an income, Molly of wan hundred a year! It's true, cushla! That ye won't be able to rowl in yer carridge an' walk in silks an' satins on that income, but it'll pay the rint an' taxes, owld girl, an' help Teddy to a collidge eddication to say nothin' o' pipes an' baccy.
You says, sir, he's clever, and quick at learning; so did Parson Dale, and wanted him to go to Collidge and make a Figur, then all would cum out. It would be my death, sir; I could not sleep in my grave, sir. Nora, that we were all so proud of. Sinful creturs that we are! Nora's good name that we've saved, now gone, gone. And Richard, who is so grand, and who was so fond of pore, pore Nora!
Out of this he had to pay one hundred and ninety for money borrowed by him at collidge, seventy for chambers, seventy more for his hoss, aty for his suvvant on bord wagis, and about three hundred and fifty for a sepparat establishment in the Regency Park; besides this, his pockit-money, say a hunderd, his eatin, drinkin, and wine-marchant's bill, about two hunderd moar.
She was a city woman an' didn't take to the country no way, but when she died it broke old Billy up wus 'n ever. She peaked an' pined, an' died when Billy P. was about fifteen or so. Wa'al, Billy P. an' the old man wrastled along somehow, an' the boy went to collidge fer a year or so. How they ever got along 's they did I dunno.
"Listen to that 'norther'? . . . How'd you like to be chucked out into th' cold, cold world right now? You, Hardy! that's never done nothin' but 'soldier' all your life you, Reddy! with your 'collidge edukashun'?" George, unmoved, listened respectfully awhile, lying on his stomach with his chin cupped in his hands.
He had a collidge education, went to Europe, an' all that', an' before he was fifty year old he hardly ever come near the old place after he was growed up. The land was all farmed out on shares, an' his farmers mostly bamboozled him the hull time.
If I wasn't jest what I am, I'd sooner be a goat than a collidge gradooate." "I've heard about enough, if you're alluding to me." "Take it er leave it. But, ez I wuz goin' ter say before my conversation was cut inter by a loud an' empty noise, speakin' o' goats reminds me o' a time down on ther Pecos " "By Jove! I'm going to ask the conductor to move me into another car. This is too much.
You says, sir, he's clever, and quick at learning; so did Parson Dale, and wanted him to go to Collidge and make a Figur, then all would cum out. It would be my death, sir; I could not sleep in my grave, sir. Nora, that we were all so proud of. Sinful creturs that we are! Nora's good name that we've saved, now gone, gone. And Richard, who is so grand, and who was so fond of pore, pore Nora!
"Oh, Buck! If you'd only had my chance!" he moaned. "Never you mind, Mikky! I ain't squealin'. I knows how to take my dose. An' mebbe, they'll be some kind of a collidge whar I'm goin', at I kin get a try at yet don't you fret, little pard ef I git my chancet I'll take it fer your sake!"
"'Tain't noways what ye'd call much o' a story, but it 'lustrates ther intelligence o' ther hawg, which in my 'pinion ez almost ez great ez thet o' some collidge gradooates what I hev mixed with." Bud stopped and looked hard at Ben, who seemed to be taking a nap in his big chair.
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