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Wiggs laughed with the rest, but only for a moment, for she spied Miss Hazy tottering toward them, and she hastened forward to relieve her anxiety. "It's his peg-stick!" she shouted. "P-e-g-stick!" This information, instead of bringing relief to Miss Hazy, caused a fresh burst of tears. She sat down on the track, with her apron over her face, and swayed backward and forward.
His peg-stick was insensible to this insult, but one leg kicked a feeble protest. In vain Lovey Mary tried violent measures; Chris simply shifted his position and slumbered on. Finally she resorted to strategy: "Listen, Miss Hazy! Ain't that the fire-engine?" In a moment Chris was hanging half out of the window, demanding, "Where at?"
Miss Hazy's arrival had changed their point of view. Mrs. Wiggs rose to the occasion. "Boys," she said, and her voice had an inspiring ring, "I'll tell you what let's do! Let's give a benefit dance to-night, an' buy Chris Hazy a new peg-stick. Every feller that's willin' to help, hol' up his hand." A dozen grimy hands were waved on high, and offers of assistance came from all sides. Mrs.
"That's right," she was calling excitedly "that's right, Chris Hazy! You kin ketch as good as any of 'em, even if you have got a peg-stick." But when she caught sight of Mary's white, distressed face and Tommy's streaming eyes, she dropped her work and held out her arms. When Mary had finished her story Mrs. Wiggs burst forth: "An' to think I run her up ag'in' this!
Lavinski think of her fer not comin' to work out the slipper money? Would Dan ever git his place back at the factory after he'd been in the House of Refuse? Was Mr. Smelts' leg broke plum off, so's he'd have to hobble on a peg-stick? She cowered under the covers. "God aint no friend of mine," she sobbed miserably. When she awoke the next morning, she sat up and looked about her.
"You might have been walking on a peg-stick, Queen Vic, if I hadn't butted in. Do you have to use your crutches now?" "Crutches! I should say not. I don't even use a cane. See here!" She rose and, steadying herself, walked slowly and painfully to the door and back. "Bully for you!" said Quin, helping her back into the chair. "Now what were we talking about?"
"She done it herself," said Mrs. Wiggs. "That an' the pavement, too. Mrs. Krasmier's goat et up her flowers las' year, an' this year she 'lowed she'd fix it different. Chris Hazy, that boy over yonder with the peg-stick, helped her dig the post-boles, but she done the rest herself." "Well, she is pretty clever!" said Redding, almost incredulously, as he examined the fence and sidewalk.
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