Robin Run-the-hedge

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...are ye starin' at? Oh, I see; an' if you don't like the looks of it, why don't you clane it off?" "Ma, where's Robin?" gasped Josey. "Gone, I tell you! an' if you ask that again I 'll give you something you won't like. Well, what's the matter with ye? Are you turnin' silly on my hands?" "Whose--blood--is that?" said Josey. "Whose blood would it be but mine? I cut my finger with the bottle." Then, as the meaning of Josey's terrified questions suddenly struck her, she flushed crimson. "Ye bad girl," she cried, "to have such a wicked thought of your own mother! Look, there's the bottle--see where I broke it; and there's my hand--see where it's cut. Now mind me, girl, you just speak a word to Micky of your wicked thoughts, and I 'll send ye afther Robin--out on the wide world, to beg and starve. Now mind that, ye onnatural cr'achure, that could get up a notion like that out of your own head about your own lawful mother." Josey slipped out of the house, and Mrs. Redmond washed the table, and thought no more about the matter. But that was not the case with Josey; the poor child could not get the idea out of her head, and it made her so stupid that her mother declared that she was losing the little sense she ever had! CHAPTER VI. OLD MOLLY. REE! Yes, Robin Redmond was free as air. If his step-mother would have given him leave he would have borne with her, worked for her, cared for her; not for her own sake, indeed, but for his dead father's sake, and poor Patsy's, for Josey and Micky and little Biddy; and, above all, "to do his duty "--that most curious notion which had got into his head, no one could quite say how. He certainly did not learn it from poor "Handsome Dan," nor yet f...