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Delia, in the flounced dress, and weeping, just then appeared. She stumbled down the steps and came to the gate, blubbering like a child. "Sure, he says I've got to go ho-ome," sobbed the giantess. "'Tis me father he tells the truth. But I wanted to earn money myself. He never lets me do nothing I want to do!" "Ye big, foolish gur-rl!" ejaculated the man gruffly.
"You have guessed it," he said huskily. "My name does not matter. I am a McKim. She was my mother Eily McKim and she used to tell me of my uncle and of you." "Did she, now? Did she remember me?" he exclaimed. "God bless th' little gur-rl. An' she is dead?" Bill nodded, and Daddy Dunnigan drew a coarse sleeve across his eyes and puffed hard at his short pipe.
"She give me char-rge av th' owld eshtate, wid th' big house, an th' lawn as wide an' as grane as th' angel pastures av hiven an' little Eily his sisther th' purtiest gur-rl owld Oirland iver bred, who was niver tired av listhenin' to tales av her big brother.
He turned to bellow in through the open door: "Hi! Come out o' that, Biddy Burns! Ye poor innocent! Sure, with your two little children home cryin' all day alone and me at work, ye should be ashamed of yerself, me gur-rl! If I was the kind of a feyther ye nade, I'd be wearin' a hairbrush out on ye, big and old as ye be. Come out o' that or will I come in afther ye?" "Mercy me!" gasped Amy. "Oh!
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