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"Yes, for the present," he answered, and he held out his free hand to the Stray, who was still clinging to me. "Go with him, sonny, and Mikey will take you home," I said to my small champion, using the tender name that I had heard Martha give him. As I spoke I laid his hand in that of Mr.
"That's it that's the baseball nine Dabney is washing Mikey for!" exclaimed Charlotte, catching up with the conversation. "And when we all go to school with the Settlements and they are clean some, and Mildred Payne and Grace Sproul and some of the others get dirty a little, nobody will know the difference and we can play ball and scouts and everything Minister teaches us.
"Sure, a minister of the gospel to teach me Mikey to stand on one leg and spin around on the other with his hands over his head is a quare thing, but the Riverend Goodloe is no ordinary man," said Mrs. Burns to Mother Spurlock, who answered: "You can trust him, Mrs. Burns, even with Mikey's legs." And during all the long weeks of activity not once did I have a word alone with the Harpeth Jaguar.
That little fella is in tune with all the world!" she declared; "but those people do be always gibbing and gabbing! Give them a smell, and they're that suspeecious they'll do the rest! Sure I said to that owld man below, Mikey Twomey" thus dispassionately was Mrs.
Martha started, but I held her tight against my breast. "I've got Mikey's pants loose with my teeth," came in Charlotte's voice, as a creaking of the timbers made a shudder run through the waiting crowd as every man and woman who held a restored treasure close, waited to see what would happen to the three left in the settling ruins. "Come out, Mikey, come out," called the Burns paternal parent.
I'll take him home when I go," the redoubtable Mikey assured me with a wide smile at the kiddie, which was answered with a rapture of hero worship. "What's his name?" demanded Charlotte as if seeking a passport. "Just Stray," answered Mikey in a matter-of-fact tone of voice. "He ain't got no father, dead or alive."
"Don't you ever dare to tell any one what I have told you!" he said sternly. "Promise, honour bright. Mind Mike, if you do, I'll I'll well, you'll soon find out who comes after sneaks!" "Be quiet, Paul. How dare you? You are not to frighten him like that," cried Stella indignantly. "Mikey is not a sneak, and you ought not to tell stories about bogies coming. You know there aren't any."
Burns went and stood beside him with Mikey and Maudie and the other five toddlers in front of her. Other children were brought forward by parents from the Town and the Settlement and were ranged to the right and to the left, but still I saw that Martha cowered in her pew holding the hand of the Stray in hers as he knelt beside her.
"Now Mikey is nice and clean and we can go to Minister to play, thank you, Aunt Charlotte," at this point young Charlotte broke in to say, thus flinging us a line to haul us out of depths that were slightly over our heads. "Isn't he lovely?" And she gazed upon her new-found comrade with open admiration and self-congratulation.
"But I say, Hicky, what did the doctor say to your hand? Will it soon get well?" "Didn't go to the doctor, lad." "Why, what did you do then?" "Went to old Mikey Dodbrooke, the bone-setter." "What did you go to him for?" "Because it's his trade. He knows how to mend bones better than any doctor." "Father says he's an old sham, and doesn't understand anything about it," said Dick.
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