"At that he stared like as he'd been moonsthruck; an' thin he
laughed a little to hisself; and thin he axed mighty quite like,
'How do you mane, Mrs. Ginniss?' So I towld him about Ann Dolan's
sisther's son, an' what wor the chance he'd got; an' thin I made
bowld to ax him would he take my b'y the same way, on'y I'd like
he'd larn more, an' I wouldn't mind the fifty dollars a year, but
'ud kape him mesilf, as I had kep' him since his daddy died, if the
wuth uv it might be give him in larnin'."

"And what did the master say to that, mother?" asked Teddy, with a
bright look that showed he foresaw and was pleased with the answer.

"Sure and he said what a gintleman the likes uv him should say, and
said with his own hearty smile that's as good as the goold dollar uv
another man,--

"'My good 'oman,' says he, 'sind along your b'y as soon as you
plaze; an' if he's as--as'--what's that agin, Teddy, darlint?"

"Amberitious," pronounced Teddy with a grand sort of air; "and it
means, he told me, wanting to be something more than you wor by
nater."

"Faith, and that's it, Teddy: that's the very moral uv what I wants
to see in yees. Well, the masther said if the b'y was as amberitious
an' as 'anest as his mother afore him (that's me, yer see, Teddy),"--

"Yes, yes, mother, I know. Well?"