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"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.
Darner's young scalawag of a son had told them that Jerry Elbow was to be taken to the poor farm." "Oh, Jerry, you blessed child!" crooned Mother 'Larkey, taking Jerry in her arms. "And you to find it out from some one else when I'd been trying for this week past to get up courage enough to tell you." "Mother!" cried Nora in a shocked voice. "It's true, then?" asked Mr. Phillips.
Perhaps he would be killed on a railway track or something and Danny would cry over his dead body, he'd be so sorry he didn't let him be the elephant. That thought comforted him and he began gathering up the things he wanted to take with him. There was the fur cap that Mother 'Larkey had made for him out of an old muff of hers, the winter before.
"An' then Mother 'Larkey won't think you made me run away," pursued Jerry, pressing home his advantage. "I won't say nothin' to her nohow about that." Danny did not reply at once and Jerry spoke again. "You can keep your top an' your shiny horseshoe nail, too." "You won't say nothin' to mother a-tall?" Danny weakened. "No," Jerry assured him. "Cross your heart, hope to die an' spit?"
Jerry thought of it often and would have liked to be the elephant just once, but he never said anything. That made him dream all the more about the real circus which was coming and wish that he could see it. He was very careful not to put his longing into words, so he wouldn't remind Mother 'Larkey of the ends that wouldn't meet and make her feel badly.
They were too dry to whistle. Then he suddenly heard the drug clerk exclaim: "Gee whillikens! This is the identical half-dollar you found this afternoon! I can tell it by the black mark on it." "Yes, it is," Jerry admitted in a forlorn tone. "So you told about finding it " "No, I didn't," interrupted Jerry, "but Kathleen was all out of cough medicine and Mother 'Larkey didn't have no money."
He looked up at Mother 'Larkey, his lips starting to twist. "Nobody's going to take him away!" said Mrs. Mullarkey almost fiercely. "Just let anybody try it!" "Why didn't you tell us you had fifty cents?" asked Danny. "I bet you was going to spend it all for yourself for a ticket to the circus." "Mr. Barton told me not to tell," replied Jerry.
"I will," Jerry promised and squeezed her neck very hard and kissed her. Just then Danny came tumbling breathlessly downstairs and thrust a little cloth sack, which was very heavy, into Jerry's hand. "Here are my marbles," he said. "All thirty-two of them." "I don't want them," said Jerry. "Take them with you, Jerry," Mother 'Larkey urged him.
He and Chris were both too excited to play; they stayed in the house most of the time and questioned Mother 'Larkey about what she had seen at the circus the time her husband had taken her to one in the city. She was busy sewing on a dress for Mrs. Johnson which was wanted by Saturday night and was at length obliged to send them out of doors with orders to stay out until dinner was ready.
If Mother 'Larkey had been at home and not away sewing for Mrs. Moran, he would have gone to her in his bitter disappointment, sure of finding comfort in her arms as he had so many times. It was not fair for Danny to take the part of the elephant away from him and not even let him play it for a teeny little while, as he had promised he would.
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