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Burrows approached and tossed a bit of paper up to Mrs. Bowe. "That's a pass for a box at the circus to-night for Mrs. Mullarkey and all her family," he said. "Is one pass good for all of them?" asked Jerry, as Danny caught the precious bit of paper and handed it to Mrs. Bowe. "Yes," laughed Mr. Burrows, "it is when it's got the name of Edward J. Burrows on it.
"Yes, sir, he's Jerry," Nora explained, as Celia Jane got up out of the road and brushed the dust from her dress. "My name's Tom Phillips," said their new friend. "I knew your father, Dan Mullarkey, very well. He told me once how he found you by the roadside one stormy night far from any house, Jerry Elbow." Jerry felt comforted in the strong arms of Mr.
Mullarkey had agreed as to how she'd hafta let him take Jerry because her insurance money from Mr. Mullarkey was all gone and she couldn't make enough to support her own kids." "It ain't so!" blustered Jerry, but all the time terribly frightened. He tried to think of something to say that would show he was not afraid of Darn Darner, who was always picking on little boys. "You shan't go!"
The two following days were busy ones for Jerry if not quite so happy as for the Mullarkey children. He had made up his mind, after practising until his back, chest and neck ached from throwing his head back to balance the ball of carpet rags on his nose, that he didn't like trained seals and wasn't going to care to be one at the circus.
Mullarkey." "We are sure you meant things for the best, Mr. Darner," said Jerry's mother. "Good-by." Mrs. Mullarkey was looking so hard at Jerry's parents that she did not return Mr. Darner's "Good afternoon" as he left the house or seem even to have heard it. "It can't be true, what you just said," she at length articulated in a choked voice. "Such things don't happen to us."
She looked unusually well, I thought: her eyes were bright and her cheeks flushed, as she rustled in, holding her satin skirts daintily away from the dusty carpets. Now, from the morning of our arrival we have had trouble with the Mullarkey door-knobs, which come off continually, and lie on the floors at one side of the door or the other.
"Then you must be the Mullarkey children," observed the man, speaking to the group. "I'm Danny," said Danny, and Chris identified himself. "Then this must be Jerry Elbow," the man remarked, stooping to pick Jerry up. Jerry flung his arms about the man's neck and clung there desperately.
He patted Kathleen's head and then went into the kitchen when he had heard the screen door slam and knew the Mullarkey children were all out of the house. He took down a bottle from the shelf by the table and slipped quietly out to the street. When he was out of sight of the house he looked to see if the half-dollar were still in his pocket.
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.
"National history says so," Danny replied in a very decisive tone. Mrs. Mullarkey gave one of those low, fleeting laughs that always made Jerry feel so good inside and which had become so rare of late. "Yes, I guess national history would be after telling about the elephant's tail as long as it deals with elephants and eagles and donkeys and camels and all."
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