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And she began to sing, at the top of her voice, in the sad and faded room that hadn't heard a singing voice these many, many years: "'Arrah, Missis McGraw, the Captain said, 'Will ye make a sojer av your son Ted? Wid a g-r-rand mus-tache, an' a three-cocked hat, Wisha, Missis McGraw, wouldn't you like that! You like that tooroo looroo loo! Wisha, Missis McGraw, wouldn't you like that!"
"Just then we seen the place all light up back of him, and we yelled to him to jump, too he could 'a saved himself, you understan', but he waves his hand and shook his head say, lookin' funny, too, with his mus-tache half burned off, and we seen him go back out of sight for the other little Kelly Kelly still promisin' to give up all he had to the Virgin if she saved his boys.
Oh, he looked so damned funny with his mus-tache burned off! way up high like that, over and over. Well, so she has to be held down till the Doc. jabs her arm full of knockouts.
We drags the original Kelly away to a drug-store on the corner of the next block, where they was workin' over the kid Prof. saved it was Patsy and Kelly was crazy; but the Doc. was bringin' the kid around all right, when one of the Miss Deveres, she has to come nutty all to once say, she sounded like the parrot-house in Central Park, laughin' till you'd think she'd bust, only it sounded like she was cryin' at the same time, and screamin' out at the top of her voice, 'Oh, he looked so damned funny with his mus-tache burned off!
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