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After pondering for a time, Danny set out towards home on a run without having answered the question. "Where're you goin'?" asked Chris, with a tinge of suspicion in his voice. "I'm goin' to ask mother and see." "That's no fair!" cried Chris. "You can run the fastest and 'll get to ask her first." "She can't give fifty cents to all of us," replied Danny and kept on running. "Danny Mullarkey!
I guess it's about all of the circus you'll see." Jerry and the Mullarkey children turned and faced the speaker. It was "Darn" Darner, the ten-year old son of Timothy Darner, the county overseer of the poor, and a more or less important personage, especially in his own eyes.
"Would you, Mrs. Mullarkey?" asked Jerry's mother. It took her such a long time to answer that Jerry looked up and saw her lips were twisting. She was crying inside so that you couldn't hear her. Jerry knew how that hurt to cry when you didn't dare cry out loud. He had often done it in the night, before he ran away, so the man with the big red scar wouldn't hear him.
"Toff meddy," she gurgled, looking up at the shelf where the bottle was kept. "Tatleen want toff meddy." "It's all gone, Kathleen," her mother said soothingly. "No," said Kathleen, shaking her head and pointing up at the bottle. "Mercy sakes! It's full!" cried Mrs. Mullarkey. "I could have sworn I emptied it this morning."
"That's all that's left." "Don't want the core," said Jerry. "It was my apple. The lady gave it to me." He didn't even look at Danny but kept staring at the very purple elephant and the very red moon almost on the tip-end of his trunk. He just wouldn't let Danny Mullarkey know that it made any difference to him whether Danny and Chris and Nora and Celia Jane liked him very much or not.
"Not till after you've had your turn again," replied Nora, who was nearly eight and was celebrated in the Mullarkey household for a finer sense of fair play than any of the others possessed. Celia Jane was greedy and bit off so big a chunk that she could not cram it into her mouth, despite her heroic efforts to accomplish that feat. "That ain't fair, Celia Jane," reproved Nora.
He left his mother and Kathleen, climbed up on Mother 'Larkey's lap, put one arm about her neck and with his other hand patted her wet cheek. "An' then Kathleen won't cry for me," he coaxed, "'cause I'll be right there an' can run over any time, couldn't I, Mother?" "Yes, of course you could, dear." "There, you see," he continued. "I should love to," Mrs. Mullarkey replied at last to Mr. and Mrs.
Mullarkey said nothing; her lips were trying to smile though the tears still stood in her eyes. "Besides which," continued the clown, "Helen and I will help you look out for the children and we want you to call on us any time that you may be in trouble." "We do, indeed," said Jerry's mother. "You cannot work so hard and take care of your children the way you want to. If you only lived near us "
You're all going to stay here with your mother." "You talk big," grumbled Mr. Darner. "Now to come down to brass tacks. Who's " "As long as I have any money, Mr. County Overseer," said Whiteface, "or as long as I have the power to make any, the Mullarkey household will not be broken up."
Mullarkey, whom I had thought dead for many years. Each child had donned one article of clothing, and was apparently searching for the mate to it, whatever it chanced to be. Mrs. Mullarkey was fully clothed, and was about to administer correction to one of the children who, unhappily for him, was not.
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