human
Now, Pat, me b'y, said Mrs. O'Callaghan, rousing herself,
gpt
I know I'm little, she nodded back at him,
human
An' what am I to do? finally burst out Pat.
gpt
An' what's Mike to do? Sure we can help some way.
human
That you can, Pat. I was comin' to that. Did you notice the biggest room in the little house we rinted the day?
gpt
I thought you did. You're an obsarvin' b'y, Pat, jist loike your father. Well, I belave that room will jist about hold three beds an' lave a nate little path betwane ivery two of 'em. It's my notion we can be nate an' clane if we are poor, an' it'll be your part to make ivery wan of thim beds ivery day an' kape the floor clane. Larry an' mesilf, we'll slape in the kitchen, an' it's hopin' I am you'll kape that shoinin', too. An' then there's the coal to be got in an' the ashes to be took out. It does seem that iverything you bring in is the cause of somethin' to be took out, but it can't be helped, so it can't, so 'Out with it,' says I. An' there's the dishes to be washed an'--I hate to ask you, Pat, but do you think you could larn cookin' a bit?
human
If you can work to earn it, 'tis meself as can cook it, I guess,
gpt
Jist loike your father, you are, Pat. He wasn't niver afraid of tryin' nothin', an' siven b'ys takes cookin'. An' to hear you say you'll do it, whin I've larnt you, of course, aises me moind wonderful. There's some as wouldn't do it, Pat. I'm jist tellin' you this to let you know you're better than most.
human
If the most of 'em's that mean that they wouldn't do what they could an' their mother a--washin', 'tis well I'm better than them, anyway,
gpt
Ah, but Pat, they'd think it benathe 'em. 'Tis some grand thing they'd be doin' that couldn't be done at all. That's the way with some, Pat. It's grand or nothin', an' sure an' it's ginerally nothin', I've noticed.
human
As for the rist, you'll all go to school but Larry, an' him I'll take with me when I go a--washin'. I know I can foind thim in the town that'll help a poor widow that much, an' that's all the help I want, too. Bad luck to beggars. I'm none of 'em.
gpt
An' it's quite the man Pat is, she cried cheerily to the six who came out to meet them.
human
You'll do well, all of you, to pattern by Pat. An' it's movin' we'll be on Monday, jist as I told you. It's but a small place we've got, as Pat will tell you there. Close to the north side of the town it is, down by the railroad tracks, where you can see all the trains pass by day an' hear 'em by night; an' there's freight cars standin' about at all toimes that you can look at, an' they've got iron ladders on the inds of 'em, but you must niver be goin' a-climbin' on top of thim cars.