s-u-h-p-e-s-o-j

Updated: June 7, 2025

"Davy is very sick," she says, with a white face. "What! My boy!! When was he taken? Is it diphtheria? What has the doctor said? Why wasn't I called? Where is he? Here, Davy, here's papa. Here's papa! Old boy! Old fel'! Oh, God, I'm so scared!" All this as Lockwin goes up the stairs. It is a wheezing little voice that replies; "S-u-h-p-e-s-o-J! What's that, papa?" "Does that hurt, Davy?

John McGovern - David Lockwin—The People's Idol