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In the confusion that ensued while these two young gentlemen thus referred to stated their modest wishes, their mother came in, tired and pale, from her hard day's work. "How is the pink lady to-day, ma?" asked Pearlie, setting Danny down and beginning operations on Bugsey. "Oh, she's as swate as ever, an' can talk that soft and kind about children as to melt the heart in ye."
"And don't forget the big plate o' potatoes and gravy and mate she gave the dog, and the cake she threw in the fire to get red of it," said Mary, who was knitting a sock for Teddy. "No, don't tell that," said Jimmy, "it always makes wee Bugsey cry." "Well," began Pearlie, as she had done many times before.
"I'm not coming just to see you ma wants a new strainer, and Bugsey needs boots, and Mary has to have another hank of yarn to finish the sweater she's knitting these are all very urgent, and I'll get them attended to first, and then...." She paused: "Then you'll come and see me, Pearl" he finished, "and we'll have the meeting which we adjourned three years ago to meet yesterday."
"Once upon a time not very long ago, there lived a lovely pink lady in a big house painted red, with windies in ivery side of it, and a bell on the front dure, and a velvet carpet on the stair and " "What's a stair? asked Bugsey.
"'Daniel Mulcahey Watson, what wud you like? she says, and Danny ups and says, 'Chockaluts and candy men and taffy and curren' buns and ginger bread, and she had every wan of them." "'Robert Roblin Watson, him as they call Bugsey, what would you like? and 'Patrick Healy Watson, as is called Patsey, what is your choice? says she, and "
Bugsey, lie still and chew your gum, and don't fight any of yez." When Pearlie and her heavy burden arrived at Mrs.
Taffy or no taffy, he could not bear to face her. "Go tell her, Bugsey man," Pearlie urged. "Tell her ye'r sorry. I w'uldn't mind tellin' Miss Barner anything. Even if I'd kilt a man and hid his corp, she's the very one I'd git to help me to give me a h'ist with him into the river, she's that good and swate."
Francis that Pearlie had really come. Then everyone saw the advantage of having their plates licked clean, and not having more turkey than they knew what to do with. Danny was inarticulate with happiness. "Lift me down, Pearlie," he murmured sleepily as he poked down the last spoonful, "and do not jiggle me." When Patsey and Bugsey and Tommy and Danny had gone to bed, and Mary and Mrs.
I guess there can't be no kick about that, Pearl thought to herself as Bugsey finished, and the applause rang out loud and louder. Pearlie had forgotten to tell Bugsey to come down when he was done, and so he stood irresolute, as the applause grew more and more deafening. Pearl beckoned and waved and at last got him safely landed, and when Mrs.
Bugsey, for he was the early little bird, ran back into the house screaming: "She's robbed us! She's robbed us! and tuk our fence." The Watson family gathered as quickly as a fire brigade at the sound of the gong, but in the scramble for garments some were less fortunate than others.
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