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"Phronsie," said Polly "dear me! what you doing? the big dog's out there, you know, that scared the naughty organ-man; and the boy " but before the words were half out, Phronsie had slipped from under her hands, and to Polly's extreme dismay, clattered out into the kitchen. "Here she is!" cried Jasper, meeting her at the door.
Glory felt as if she was choking, but Polly's pug dog had been awakened by the commotion and was beginning to howl, so she took up the little mourner and carried it out. An organ-man somewhere near was playing Sweet Marie. The funeral was at Kensal Green, and the four girls were the only followers.
An organ-man with a monkey was playing near by; and Poppy was soon so busy listening to the music, and watching the sad-looking monkey, that she forgot home, shoes, and Kitty altogether. She followed the man a long way; and, when she turned to go back, she took the wrong street, and found herself by the park.
When I reached that part of the Mile End Road in which the Jewish tailors live, and found myself listening to a foreign language which I afterwards knew to be Yiddish, and looking at men with curls at each side of their sallow faces, slithering along as if they were wearing eastern slippers without heels, I stopped, without knowing why, at the corner of a street where an Italian organ-man was playing while a number of bright-eyed Jewish children danced.
"Beginning here on my left with 'Whitey," I said, "I want each boy to tell us what he would like to be when he becomes a man." Whitey without hesitation said: "A organ-man wid a monkey." "Why?" "'Cause." Eddy said he would like to be a butcher, and as a reason gave: "Plenty ov beef to eat." "Kaiser" preferred to be a "Reformatory boss." "Ano," the cripple, said he would like to be a minister.
It was the evening after the play, and the Belden House felt justified in taking life easily. "She lost her head last night," chuckled Madeline, without waiting for Betty's answer. "Did you hear her imploring the organ-man in her most classic English not to let me take the monkey out in front to show to the President? As if I really would!"
It is a strange thing to know nothing; for instance, to live in London and to have no notion of the House of Commons, nor indeed of the Queen, except perhaps that she is a rich lady; the police yes, you knew what a policeman was because you used to be sent to fetch one to make an organ-man or a Christy minstrel move on.
As they passed the brow of the hill, however, and descended on the other side, the sounds gradually died away, whereat they all felt much relieved. "I'm glad I don't have to live with the organ-man; aren't you, Polly?" said Dorothy. "Yes indeed," answered the Rainbow's Daughter. "He's nice," declared Button-Bright, soberly.
"Hush!" said Glory, coming back to the room. "The doctor says you are not to talk so much." "Then let me look at you, Glory. Sit here here and if I should seem to be suffering you must not mind that, because I am really very happy." Just then an organ-man in the street began to play. Glory thought the music might disturb John, and she was going to send Aggie to stop it.
A tinkling cab slid past at intervals, with its driver sheeted in oilskins, and now and then there was an omnibus, full within and empty without. Only one other living thing was to be seen anywhere. An Italian organ-man had stationed himself in front of a mansion to the left and was playing vigorously. John Storm walked through the hospital. It was now late, and the house was quiet.
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