"Shure, sur, it's only larnin' the boys
the habits uv industhry I was--and may they niver know, be the same
token, what it is to worruk fur the bread betune their lips. Shure
it's but makin' 'em think it play I was. As fur the colleens
beyint in the kitchen, sure isn't it betther they was helping your
honor here than colloguing with themselves inside?"
Nevertheless, I thought it expedient to forbid henceforth any
interruption of servants or children with my friend's "worruk."
Perhaps it was the result of this embargo that the next morning
early the Tramp wanted to see me.
"And it's sorry I am to say it to ye, sur," he began, "but it's the
handlin' of this stun that's desthroyin' me touch at the brick-
makin', and it's better I should lave ye and find worruk at me own
thrade. For it's worruk I am nadin'. It isn't meself, Captain, to
ate the bread of oidleness here. And so good-by to ye, and if it's
fifty cints ye can be givin' me ontil I'll find a kill--it's God
that'll repay ye."
He got the money. But he got also conditionally a note from me to
my next neighbor, a wealthy retired physician, possessed of a large
domain, a man eminently practical and businesslike in his
management of it.
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