Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes

ke went home. She did not see Mrs. Preston again, for

ou're not to come ne

. She is angry because I took the pa

" said Ellen, whose grammar was a little

ndy, and Andy s

Ellen, emphatically. "I

and he'll be quiet if he's let alone. But he's just like

id Ellen. "I'm sorry you're n

I need the money, but

Mrs. Preston say so often. She won't

se that wants help, Ellen,

home, sorry to have lost her engagement, but not sor

o far. The next day he meant to go out in search of employment. When his mother got b

a considerable pile, "you'll have en

That'll save Mary and me

er words, but somethin

to

r, mother? Has an

h working for Mr

? For to-day

going to work

y n

ained of y

er?" asked our hero, li

ght not to have

l her he str

, I

did she

ought not to have

did you sa

he boy to stand still an

hat's where you hit the nail on the hea

eedn't come ther

want you to work for the likes of her. Let

ed. He was more angry at the slight to his mother than he would have been at anything, however contemptuous, said to himself. He had

ery sorry for the

h is it,

y-five

ke it up

, Andy; but work is hard to

eston that I'm a dirty spalpeen, an

n boy like that if she'd

"Don't you be afeared-we'll get along somehow. More by to

et six silver half-dollars, a

them, Andy?" she

d another, by overwork. We won't

one had its effec

she said, smiling. "At any rat

o out and see if

find it, Andy?" s

Andy, laughing. "It's an iligant

e you more th

ey would have got along on bread and tea; but "Andy

as her income was diminished, but she couldn't bear to stint Andy. At first she was not going to eat, herself, meaning to save a part for Andy's breakfast; but our hero found her out, and de

no very definite idea where to go, or to whom to apply, b

ld farmer, whose reputation for parsimony was well known through

e a good strong boy?" he

con loo

rked on

es

you m

es

did you

Carv

s your

y Bu

do yo

s. Burke, a little

the Widd

got any wo

minute,

arn, and felt of the edge. There was not much d

ening," he said. "Come a

how," thought Andy. "Won

ration stood on his brow. It was certainly pretty hard work, but then he must be prepared for that, and after all he was earning money

nin', ain't it?"

" sai

harpened for ever so long

on, after a careful inspection of the blade of the scythe, rele

on that

the in its pla

tfully for the remun

ght. But the deacon showed no dispositio

ll be goin'

anything more for you

ay now," said A

inquired the de

ing the g

ect anything for that?" said th

"I can't work an hour a

such a trifle," said the old

kind popularly known as bung-towns, which a

pay you, though I didn't think you'd char

ed compensation with mingl

u can keep it. You need it

it?" asked the d

work an hour and a half for two cents, one

nnies back into his pocket. "I calc'late he expected more jus

upon the deacon that he had saved two cents,