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"Sure and you haven't, you blessed boy," said Mother 'Larkey. "If I had it to give, you wouldn't need a mother to ask it of. I wish I could send all of you to the circus and go myself." "We never get to go no place," muttered Danny gloomily. "It costs money to go to places," his mother explained, "and there's no money in the house.
This gentleman awakened in Miss Nipper some considerable astonishment; for, having been defeated by the Larkey Boy, his visage was in a state of such great dilapidation, as to be hardly presentable in society with comfort to the beholders.
He would run away if it weren't for Mother 'Larkey and for little Kathleen who always cried when he even said anything about running away. He heard the screen door slam shut after a time and Nora's gentle footsteps coming up the stairway. He turned his back to the door. "Jerry," pleaded Nora's coaxing voice, "come on out and play. Danny didn't mean anything." Jerry did not answer.
Bowe and took several bills from her bag and pressed them into Mrs. Mullarkey's hands. "I can't thank you," said Mother 'Larkey. "I don't know how." "You've loved Gary, Mrs. Mullarkey. He wouldn't love you so much if you hadn't. That is more thanks than I want. We owe more than thanks to you. Tell them good-by, Gary. We must start."
If he did, he knew by experience that they would all unite against him all except Mother 'Larkey, who, trying to earn money to support them all, could not always know what was going on under her tired, kindly eyes, much less the things that took place behind her back. And baby Kathleen, who was too little to feel the claims of the Mullarkey blood and who loved everybody.
In the mean time Sir Charles and the parson were ready to burst with containing their laughter, to see how he managed my lady to bring her to; for his assertion of having married Betty Larkey, who was a country-woman of my lady’s, and formerly known to her, was a loadstone which presently drew my lady’s hand to her purse; then turning to Sir Charles, she asked him if he had any small money about him?
"You're such a willing worker, I thought Danny was just trying to get even for something," said Mother 'Larkey. "Where'd you go, Jerry?" asked Chris. "Yah! Tell us that," demanded Danny. "I just thought I'd run over to the drug store," replied Jerry. "What did you want to go there for?" Jerry said nothing.
"You'll have to hurry to get a good place to see the parade." Jerry was ready to start without having anything to eat. He was too excited to be hungry, but Mother 'Larkey made him eat so he "wouldn't get too faint to enjoy the circus." It was a race between the boys to see who would finish first. Chris won. Danny, who confessed to being hungry, ate twice as much as Jerry and Chris.
"Enough to buy a ticket to the circus!" Danny added. "Where is it? Let's see it." "It's all gone," Jerry told his tormentors. "Fifty cents! And you spent all of it at once!" wailed Celia Jane. "That must of bought a whole lot of candy," said Danny. "Fork out. No fair holding any back." Jerry produced the small paper bag of cough drops and gave it to Mother 'Larkey.
The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.
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