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Jerry began crying again, but softly this time, because he knew Mother 'Larkey wouldn't let him go if she could help it. She kissed him and turned to Mr. Phillips. "Mr. Darner told me I'd sooner or later have to let some of my own children go there or be adopted out, if I didn't consent to Jerry's going. I'm at the end of my string." "I see," observed Mr. Phillips gently.
Phillips and at the pleasant, deep quality of his voice. He stopped crying except for the long, shuddering sobs that always came at intervals after he had cried so hard. "Who said anything about taking you to the poor farm?" he asked Jerry. "D-D-Darn," Jerry sobbed out. "Darn!" said Mr. Phillips, puzzled. "I say darn, too, but who was it?" "It was Darn Darner," Danny told him. "Oh!" exclaimed Mr.
"I ain't!" cried Jerry in a shaky voice. "I won't go! So there!" "They'll take you," Darn informed him, "and you won't have anything to say about it." "Mother 'Larkey won't let them take me, will she, Danny?" asked Jerry in a voice that was becoming shrill and high from fear. "No, she won't," asserted Danny. "Darn Darner, you jest let Jerry be.
I want you to go to Mr. Burrows, one of the proprietors of the circus, and satisfy yourself on that point and that I am a man of my word. While you are doing that we can arrange with Mrs. Mullarkey. We want to be alone with her. I'll see you again before to-night's performance." Mr. Darner stood up.
Darn Darner had had a blighting influence on the power of their imaginations, and Danny in the elephant costume would have been to them now only a little boy in an old green wrapper much too large for him, dragging about a stuffed blue trouser leg for a tail, a very ridiculous spectacle. Jerry realized that there would never be a next time and that he would never play the elephant.
I guess it's about all of the circus you'll see." Jerry and the Mullarkey children turned and faced the speaker. It was "Darn" Darner, the ten-year old son of Timothy Darner, the county overseer of the poor, and a more or less important personage, especially in his own eyes.
Jerry would not have missed one joggle or sway of that ride for worlds. He saw Darn Darner in the crowd following them, and he was glad that such a stuck-up boy should see what a high place in the world Jerry Elbow had reached and be envious of him. He even waved to Darn to make sure that Darn knew that he saw him.
A few days before the circus was to come to town Jerry and the Mullarkey children were returning from the woods by the creek, where they had gone to see what the prospects were for a good yield of hazel and hickory nuts in the fall, and had just entered the edge of town when they saw Darn Darner approaching.
"I'm a el'funt," said Danny proudly, "an' I jump the fence like the circus el'funt." "An el'funt!" cried Darn, turning his eyes up to the sky. "And he calls that an' el'funt!" "It is a el'funt," protested Jerry. Darn Darner laughed derisively. "You can 'maginary it's a el'funt," Chris explained. "It would take some imagination," was Darn's only comment on that.
"What's that for?" asked Chris. "It's the music so that the people will know the circus is about to begin," replied Danny. "They always have music for the parade an' everything. Darn Darner said so." "Let's sing then," suggested Nora. "Sing what?" queried Danny crossly, seeing a threat to diminish his importance in the circus. "We might sing 'Heigho, the cherry-o," said Celia Jane.
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