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"Well, before long, I'll know," said Mickey. "What I was thinking was
this: you are going to have something. I just wondered whether you'd
rather know it was coming, or have me walk in with it and surprise you."
"Mickey, you just walk in," she decided.
"All right!" said Mickey.
"Mickey, write on the other side of my slate what you said at the door to-
night," she coaxed. "Get a little book an' write 'em all down. Mickey, I
want to learn all of them, when I c'n read. Lemme tell you. You make all
you c'n think of. Nen make more. An' make 'em, an' make 'em! An' when you
get big as you're goin' to be, make books of 'em, an' be a poet-man 'stead
of sellin' papers."
"Sure!" said Mickey. "I'd just as lief be a poet-man as not! I'd write a
big one all about a little yellow-haired girl named Lily Peaches, and I'd
put it on the front page of the _Herald!_ Honest I would! I'd like to!"
"Gee!" said Peaches. "You go on an' grow hel--wope! I mean hurry! Hurry
an' grow up!"

CHAPTER VI

_The Song of a Bird_

"Leslie," said the voice of Mrs.


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