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Updated: September 16, 2025
When I got her on the car I begun to see what a fool thing I'd done, seemin'ly. An' yet, I donno. I wouldn't 'a' left a month-old baby there on the corner. I'd 'a' bed to 'a' done for that, like you do I s'pose to keep the world goin'. An' that woman was just as helpless as a month-old. Some are.
"Who was your father?" "He was a pinshoner, sur." "Where did he draw his pension?" "I donno, sur." "Where did you get the money to buy your tickets?" "The neighbors, sur, and Mr. O'Grady helped, sur." "What neighbours? Name them." She unhesitatingly named a number, many of whom I knew; and as that had frequently been done before, I saw no reason to doubt the girl's word.
Use up, and buy more, 's my way;-makes you less trouble, and I'm quite sure it comes cheaper in the end;" and Simon sipped his glass. "And how long do they generally last?" said the stranger. "Well, donno; 'cordin' as their constitution is. Stout fellers last six or seven years; trashy ones gets worked up in two or three.
There was an universal cry of 'Alive or dead? and then a deep, profound hush. When he said 'Alive! a great shout arose and many eyes had tears in them. 'But he's hurt very bad, he added, as soon as he could make himself heard again. 'Where's doctor? He's hurt so very bad, sir, that we donno how to get him up.
"Givin' this boy a duckin'; an' if I told ye what for, I donno but ye'd be for takin' of him up," answered the captain, disregarding all considerations of parental or family pride. "If ye fin' me a meaner one nor he is in this big town, I'll duck him, too, an' keep him under till he begs an' swears he'll mend his ways. Now, git along home, sir," to the shaking Theodore.
I donno if Abel rilly heard us come in, he was so excited about his dragon. An' Mis' Zittelhof an' I began makin' up the cots. On the first one I laid the two babies that was asleep on the floor. They never woke up. Their little cheeks was warm an' pink, an' one of 'em had some tears on it.
"No, sir," she said, "I can't go. You'll laugh at me!" she defended. "Don't you tell!" she warned. And finally she told me. "Day before yesterday," she said, "I went into the City. An' I come out on the trolley. An' I donno what possessed me, I ain't done it for months, but when we crossed the start of the Plank Road, I got off an' went up an' visited the Old Ladies' Home.
"I donno," said Mary, thoughtfully, "but what, when folks stop chasing after Christmas and driving it before them, Christmas may turn around and come to find them." "Mebbe so," Mis' Moran said with bright eyes, "mebbe so. Oh, Mary," she added, "ain't it nice he's coming?" Mary looked at them, frowning a little. "It seemed like the thing had to happen," she said; "it'll fit itself in."
His first name in Italian was “Eusebio,” but he found it more convenient in our land to go under the name of “Vwictor.” He came from a village of fifty inhabitants not far from Turin, almost on the Swiss border, where they had snow nine months in the year. Why had he journeyed to America? “Oh, I donno. Italians in my home town have too little money and too many children.”
I never seen 'em again, but they was real jolly an' nice. They give me a bokay of real roses an' a bracelet made like a snake with green glass eyes." "And the minister? Which is his church?" "I'm sure I donno," said Lizzie. "I never ast. He Come along an' was ez jolly ez enny of 'em. He drank more'n all of 'em put together. He was awful game fer a preacher." Michael's heart began to sink.
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