Part 13 (1/2)
When Mac caot a fine lot of bairns, Mac”
”Had you any difficulty?” he asked
”What do you ht they would try to pull your leg, especially a boy like Tom Murray He is a most difficult chap, you know”
”Tom's a saint,” I said; ”every child is a saint if you treat him as an equal No, I had no difficulty, but I want you to send over Geordie Wylie towith that boy; he has no ambition and he has one of the worst inferiority complexes I have ever struck I want to have a quiet talk with him”
Mac promised, and at three o'clock Geordie came over to the schoolhouse
I took hie of a chair
”Tell me about yourself, Geordie,” I said, but he did not answer
”Do you keep rabbits?”
”Aye”
”What kind?”
”Twa Himalayas and a half Patty”
”Keep doos?”
”No”
It was like drawing blood frohts?”
It was a long difficult task to get anything out of hireat reader of Wild West stories I asked hiht I asked Mac about him
”He's a drea hiaround”
”Does he ever fight?” I asked
”He's a great coward, but there's one queer thing about hioes white about the gills but he always fightsand gets licked”
”Mac,” I said, ”will you do ain; it is the worst treative him He is a poor wee chap, and he is badly in need of real help”
”All right,” said the kindly Mac, ”I'll try not to touch him, but he irritatesHe was taciturn at first, but later he talked freely He is very much afraid of his father, and he weeps when his father scolds hirier and he calls Geordie a lassie, a greetin' lassie This jeer wounds the boy deeply He is afraid in the dark He told oes for his ht he is never afraid on the outward journey, but when he leaves the dairy to come home he is always in terror I asked hiined that there was ato murder him
”What is a cheese-cutter?” I asked