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Updated: June 12, 2025
Blanche Devine breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him from her kitchen window. She watched the house now with a sort of proprietary eye. She wondered about Snooky; but she knew better than to ask. So she waited. The Young Wife next door had told her husband all about that awful night had told him with tears and sobs.
"He's not talking to you," remarked Travis, without lowering her voice. "You know how Papum goes on. He won't hear a word you say. Well, I read your story in this morning's 'Times." A few moments later, while Travers and Condy were still discussing this story, Mr. Bessemer rose. "Well, Mr. Rivers," he announced, "I guess I'll say good-night. Come, Snooky."
Duane gathered encouragement from that chorus of coarse laughter. "Wal, if them tourists ain't too durned snooky the hoss'll be safe in the 'dobe shack back of Bill's here. Feed thar, too, but you'll hev to rustle water." Duane led Bullet to the place indicated, had care of his welfare, and left him there.
It was while she was talking to Victorine as to this matter that Snooky began to whine. "Stop!" "And tell Maggie," pursued Travis, "to fricassee her chicken, and not to have it too well done " "Sto-o-op!" whined Snooky again. "And leave the heart out for Papum. He likes the heart " "Sto-o-op!" "Unbiassed by prejudice," murmured Mr. Bessemer, "vigorous and to the point. I'll have another roll."
Under her supervision, Howard blacked his own shoes every morning before breakfast, changed his underclothes twice a week, and was dissuaded from playing with the dentist's son who lived three doors below and who had St. Vitus' dance. His little sister was much more tractable. She had been christened Alberta, and was called Snooky.
Snooky was in raptures, and Blix spent a delightful half-hour there, drinking Japanese tea, and feeding the wafers to the carp and gold-fish in the tiny pond immediately below where she sat. A Chinaman, evidently of the merchant class, came in, with a Chinese woman following.
I'm expecting the rest of the block before bedtime. She bought it all right." The Young Husband flushed and kicked at a piece of coal with the toe of his boot. "Well, it's a darned shame!" he began hotly. "Jen was ready to cry at supper. This'll be a fine neighborhood for Snooky to grow up in! What's a woman like that want to come into a respectable street for, anyway?
Snooky, in her scarlet sweater and cap, sniffed them from afar and straightway deserted her sand pile to take her stand at the fence. She peered through the restraining bars, standing on tiptoe. Blanche Devine, glancing up from her board and rolling pin, saw the eager golden head. And Snooky, with guile in her heart, raised one fat, dimpled hand above the fence and waved it friendlily.
All the husbands in the block, urged on by righteously indignant wives, dropped in on Alderman Mooney after supper to see if the thing could not be stopped. The fourth of the protesting husbands to arrive was the Very Young Husband who lived next door to the corner cottage that Blanche Devine had bought. The Very Young Husband had a Very Young Wife, and they were the joint owners of Snooky.
"Yes, take her with you, Papum," said Travis. "She'll go to sleep on the lounge here if you don't. Howard, have you got your lessons for to-morrow?" It appeared that he had not. Snooky whined to stay up a little longer, but at last consented to go with her father.
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