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Updated: September 18, 2025
But it appeared from the published records of that great contest that the Larkey Boy had had it all his own way from the beginning, and that the Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.
"He fought Darn Darner when he said they was goin' to take me to the poor farm." "So do I l-l-like you, J J Jerry," sobbed Celia Jane. " I I'm sorry I " A fresh outburst of sobbing prevented further speech. Jerry's heart was touched at her grief and his own lips began to twist. "I want Danny and Celia Jane to see the circus, too, Mother 'Larkey," Jerry protested. "I ain't mad at them any more."
Never, never, never would he forgive Celia Jane for her perfidy, nor Danny either for taking the ticket, when he knew that it had been given to Celia Jane because Jerry thought she was really crying because she wanted to see the circus. He would really run away this time. He would run away without going back to tell Mother 'Larkey and Kathleen and Nora good-by.
He was so happy that he would willingly have shared with them the pleasure of seeing the circus and getting acquainted with Whiteface, if that had been possible. He wished Kathleen and Nora and Mother 'Larkey could see it. Never in all his life had he been so excited and so happy. He wanted more and more. If only the circus would never end!
Why, bless me, it's Jerry Elbow! Well, I guess there wasn't much harm done this time. You seemed to be in quite a hurry. Have I delayed you?" "Yes, sir, I was in a hurry," Jerry answered. "Danny was running to ask Mother 'Larkey for fifty cents to see the circus." "And what were you running for?" Jerry started to get up as he replied. "To see if she had fifty cents for Da "
No, and he wouldn't feel so terribly bad if Mother 'Larkey and little Kathleen didn't like him, either. "You ain't lost your tongue, have you?" cried Danny. "Maybe the cat's got it," said Celia Jane, following as usual her elder brother's lead and laughing at her own wit. "What you starin' at so hard, Jerry?" called Chris.
Jerry felt there must be something funny in what Mother 'Larkey said, because her nose went all crinkly, and he smiled in sympathy anyway, although he didn't understand. But playing circus no longer appealed to the Mullarkey children.
The Mullarkey children were still picking gooseberries and Mother 'Larkey was still in the living room sewing on Mrs. Green's dress. Jerry tiptoed carefully into the kitchen, replaced the bottle, stuffed the cough drops into his blouse pocket and went into the living room, where he squatted down by Kathleen.
Danny sat glowering by the window; Celia Jane was weeping unashamed, while Chris and Nora were trying not to show their disappointment. So Mother 'Larkey had not yet been able to make both ends meet those troublesome, refractory ends that made her life a continual round of hard work and there were no fifty-cent pieces for the children to buy tickets with to see the elephant jump the fence.
I am an Old England man, please you, my lady, but I have my wife in Wales. From what part? says the lady, who was a native of Wales herself. I married, replied he, one Betty Larkey, who lived with Sir John Morgan, and afterwards with parson Griffy, at Swansea. Ay, did you marry Betty Larkey?—how many children have you by her? Only one daughter, replied he.
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