, 1873-05-25


! WAS born with teeth, Feeling myself to be on
| unfamiliar ground, I suppressed my criticism.
It Was we'll I did so, for in the next breath Was
advised that half a year had elapsed since the
.-aAndy s had hard six months of it, eaid
blr. Janroy, with the we'll narrative air n Of
fathors.. q We've brought him up by hand. His
| grandfather, By the wey, was brought up by the
bottle and brought down By it, too, added,
mentally, recalling Mr.. Sewell's account Of the
old gentfeman's tragic end. - q : -
| 11r. JatIroy then went on to give me a history
Of, Andy's first six months, o,nittiug no detail
however insignificant or irrelevant. This LIS.
tory would, in turn, inflict upon the reader, II
were only certain that he is Que OF those dread
| f'l parents who. under the wgis OF. friendship,
bore yon at q strcet-cor11or with that rernarka-
/ ble thing which Freddy said the other day. and
insist on singing to you al an evening party, the
But to inflict this cnfantillage upon the un-
married reader would DO an act OF uanton cru
city: SO pass over that part Of Andy's bio
| graphy, and, for the same reason, make no
with alr: JafFrey. 1t will be sufficient to state
| that Andy glided from extreme infancy to carly
i youth with astonishing celerlty,-at the rate Of
| one year per night il remember correctly;
and--must confess it ?-before tho week ca1uo
to III, end this invisible hobgoblin OF q boy vas
only little less OF q reality to me than to LII.
Jafrrey. 49,.
At ilrst had lent myself to the old drea1ner's
| whim: with keen perception Of the humor Of
aa ~ Sr;ss archatahci,a ar, m thouoi,
ha ,sara syo1;tahio naraonana srr Jaffrov
a,,a7a ne tia ,h;I1 ..;+h asch m mir ~ conriG-
| tion Las if Andy were playing among his toys
sun t1a.o - ,a.,esarus tions X ,,st ha ~,
anrvad tha ch;1I vcaa navar s,1nnnaad tn he n.ea
| ent, except on that single occasion when Mr.
Jafffey leaned over the cralle. After one Of our
| seances would lie awake until the small hours,
- aa ;nf;aaat;h1a Irearna nlsnnt him srhrnnr},
tbo '4ar nj snmat;mas' IN lie midst at compli-
sa+o5 s.,o,sa+;ons won11 catc1, InVaa3f woni|or
iug what Andy vas up to now! There was no
,,;@ht1r,,a - M and fe1t that II remained
t3a,, InI,,er ~ - ~ R,1ava rnrna-s shnnld
tnrn ;ntn 3 ;uat snch another baId-headed mild
eyed visionnry IS sllas Jalfroy. -: =:
,r.r 9 ~, 1n1 10 nnarconntahfa ~ no;ses after ark
:tinna ," " .ap;nenta ajnnr nnfreancnte ms
saees and stealthy footballs in unoccupicd
chambers overhead. ~ I mover knew Of an old
to nv hedroom ~ .was a 1nusty. dismaptled apart-
-oantI i, ona cornaT ~ vI,io1, leaning acainst
tha Toinscot was crippled mangle. with it's
iron crank tilted in tho ar ike the elbow Of the
iata NJ G,arn I.frav Sometimes ,,,.-:
4aso NJ ttoua .,,s en'sso -. H. ,,,,,.
~ .uo oe-u 'ast AAe' - - ~ -.
as1u IT, - nee. nrer n " tha aiv Tbs occnTred
ing tta1 luS!5 Gt.nA " .uo a ~ ,ocai!.o1
unl5 W oa Io 4,,af - ~. T 10 ti fa1o-
| ~ ohosts from the neglected graveyard in the
! cornnfiefd keeninp themselves warm Ly running
@ each other thro1gh the mansle. There vas
n hannted air nhout tho whole place that made it
EASY for me to believe in the existence Of pl,an-
tasm ike Miss Mehetabels son, Who after all,
vas 1ess nnearthly than 1Ir, Jaffrey himself and
seemed more property an inhabitaut Of this
rlobe than the toothless ogre that kept the inn,
not to mention the silent Witch Of Endor that
cooked our meals for us over the bar-room fire.
In spite Of tho acowls and winks bestowed upon
testify lis disapprobation OF the intimacy, Mr.
Jatfrsv and spont all our evenings together,-
thnse lonr autumnal evenings. through tho
length @ % Of Shich he talked about the boy, laying
% out lis pnth in lie, md hedging the path with
a and then be ITO, to college 6e should be
Wa Ihe tIe iii man dies a1id Mr. Jafeey.
rubbnr T his lands eieefuily, as If it we're great
HIM, tin : nrotty r n1nm.' '''
.1WEat ID Won think Of having ANDY enter
veat PAINT When ha's ola enouch p, said LII.
1si1rav m snnthe- occes;nn- NHe needn't nee
csra1iv ro into tho nr1uy Wien he graduates he
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