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Updated: August 18, 2024
"Gee!" says I. "But this raisin' a fam'ly tree comes high, don't it? Besides, I'd have to get Mother Leary's O. K. on you first, you know." "Naturally," says he. "And any time within the next day or so will answer. Suppose I drop around again, or look you up at your quarters?" "Better make it at the house," says I. "Here's the street number. Some evenin' after seven-thirty.
Bes that yerself, Nick Leary?" "Aye, skipper, aye," replied Nick. The two were now at the top of the path, staring anxiously at the skipper through the gloom. Leary's head was still in a bandage. "We was jist a-settin' out to look for ye, skipper," said Bill. Black Dennis Nolan laughed at that. "Was ye t'inkin' I couldn't find me way back to me own harbor, in fair weather?" he asked.
And when we had done all we could think of, we sat down to watch the fire and guard the things till some body came. And we got talking about something else and forgot where we were; when all of a sudden the door pushed softly open and a girl came in " "Sarah!" cried Matilda. "Wait. There came in this girl, and stood there, looking. And we looked. 'Is this Mrs. Leary's? she asked.
"Anything but that! I you you really mustn't leave me without my overcoat." "Wot else is dere to take?" Even as he uttered the scornful question the thief had wrested the garment from Mr. Leary's helpless form and was backing away into the darkness. Out of impenetrable gloom came his farewell warning: "Stay right where you are for fi' minutes wit'out movin' or makin' a yelp.
"He never came to Patsy Leary that lived up on the lots in Middleboro. Patsy said he didn't; he said there wasn't any Santa Claus, Patsy did." "Hum! Perhaps Patsy wasn't good." "Gee! Yes, he was. He can play baseball better'n any boy I know. And he can lick any kid his size; he told me he could." This crushing proof of young Leary's goodness was a staggerer for Thankful.
"That's all right," said the Governor, "and serves our purpose well. Archie, you and Leary take the launch and carry the mail over to Heart o' Dreams. The tug will be within call in case you need help. At twelve o'clock meet me about a quarter of a mile this side of Carey's barricade; Leary's got the place spotted so he can find it in the dark. Use a canoe; no noise and no lights.
Then, after a fortnight in England, unless something tremendous and unexpected happens, they will all come back again. And there will still be nothing to do. Was it Wordsworth who said that poetry is "emotion remembered in tranquillity"? Wordsworth would undoubtedly have written much poetry here. Our chief delight is Leary's musical voice.
Nor did any one ever take a keener interest in the current intellectual resources of a city any city in which he happened to be its museums, libraries, old bookstores, newspapers, magazines, and I know not what else. It was he who first took me into Leary's bookstore in Philadelphia, descanting with his usual gusto on its merits.
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