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Puller - -Release Date: November 10, 2013 [EBook #44152] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RED HEAD AND WHISTLE BREECHES *** - - - - -Produced by David Widger - - - - - - -RED HEAD AND WHISTLE BREECHES - -By Ellis Parker Butler - -It is believed that this little story by a master story teller, may, -through its human interest and homely suggestion, exert a wholesome -influence and warrant its publication in permanent form. - -The Publishers. - -With Illustrations By Arthur D. Puller - -The Bancroft Company Publishers New York - -1915 - -[Illustration: Frontispiece] - - - - - -RED HEAD AND WHISTLE BREECHES - - - - -I. - -When Tim Murphy let his enthusiasm get the better of his judgment and, -in the excitement of that disastrous night, joined the front rank of the -strikers in a general mix-up and cracked the head of a deputy -sheriff, the result was what he might have expected--two years in the -penitentiary. That was all right. The peace of the commonwealth must -be preserved, and that is why laws and penitentiaries exist, but it -sometimes goes hard with the mothers and wives. That is also to be -expected, and the boy should have thought of it before he crowded to the -front of the angry mob or struck the deputy. - -It went very hard with the boy's mother and wife. It went hard with -his old man, too. It is a cruel thing to have one's only boy in the -penitentiary, even if one is only a village hod carrier. - -Maggie Murphy, the boy's wife, did not suffer for food or shelter after -the boy went to wear stripes, for old Mike had a handy little roll in -the bank and a shanty of his own, and he took Maggie into his home and -made a daughter of her; but the girl grew thin and had no spirits. She -cried a good part of the time, quite as if Tim had been a law abiding -citizen, instead of a law breaking rowdy. Then the baby came, and after -that she cried more than ever. - -As for the boy's mother, it was to be expected that she would weep also. -Mothers have a way of weeping over the son they love, even if he has -gone wrong. It is not logical, but it is a fact. It is one of the grand -facts of human life. - -When Maggie's baby came the boy's mother could stand it no longer. It -had been urged--and there was some evidence to support it--that the boy -had acted in self-defense. He said so himself, but he admitted he had -been in the front rank. The strikers had carried things with a high hand -all along, and the jury had decided against him. - -Night and day the boy's mother begged the old man to try for a pardon, -but Mike knew it was not worth a trial. The Governor was an old man and -a strong man, and not one to forgive an injury done to the State or to -himself. He had never been known to forget a wrong, or to leave a debt -unpaid. - -He was a just man, as the ancient Jews were just. It was this that had -made him Governor; his righteousness and fearlessness were greater than -cliques and bosses. - -Old Mrs. Murphy, however, was only a woman, and the boy was her boy, -and she pardoned him. She knew he was innocent, for he was her boy. Mike -refused a thousand times to ask the Governor for a pardon, but as -Mrs. Murphy was the boy's mother and had a valiant tongue, the old man -changed his mind. One day he put on his old silk hat, and with Father -Maurice, the good gray priest, went up to the capital. - -A strange pair they were to sit in the Governor's richly furnished -reception room--Mike with his smoothly shaven face, red as the sunset, -his snowy eye brows, his white flecked red hair, and the shiny black of -his baggy Sunday suit; Father Maurice with his long gray beard that -had been his before the days of the smoothly shaven priests, his kindly -eyes, and the jolly rotundity of his well fed stomach. The father's -gentle heart was hopeful, but Mike sat sadly with his eyes on the toe -of his boot, for he knew the errand was folly; not alone because the -Governor had never pardoned a condemned man, but because it was he, Mike -Murphy, who came. - -He remembered an incident of his boyhood, and he frowned as he recalled -it. Think of it! He, Mike Murphy, had bullied the Governor--had drubbed -him and chased him and worried the life out of him. That was why he had -told the old woman it was no use to try it. - -Who was he to come asking pardons when, years ago, he had done his best -to make life miserable for the quaking schoolboy who was now the stern -faced Governor--the Governor who never forgot or forgave, or left a debt -unpaid? - - - - -II. - -When the Governor entered the reception room he came in unexpectedly, as -Father Maurice was leaning forward with one of Mike's red hands clasped -in his two white ones. Mike was wiping his eyes with his coat sleeve. - -The Governor paused in the doorway and coughed. His visitors started in -surprise, and then arose. - -It was Father Maurice who stated their errand, his seamed face turned -upward to the serious eyes of the Governor; and as he proceeded, -choosing his quaint Frenchified English carefully, the Governor's face -became grave. He motioned them to their chairs. - -He was a gray haired man, and his face was the face of a nobleman. -Clear, gray eyes were set deep under his brows, and his mouth was a -straight line of uncompromising honesty. He sat with one knee thrown -over the other. With one hand he fingered a pen on the desk at his side; -the other he ran again and again through the hair that stood in masses -on his head. His face was long, and the cheekbones protruded. His nose -was power, and his chin was resistance. - -He listened silently until Father - -Maurice had ended. Then he laid the pen carefully by the inkstand, -unfolded his gaunt limbs, and arose. - -"No," he said slowly. "I cannot interfere." - -"But his wife? His mother?" asked the priest. - -"He should have considered them before," said the Governor sadly. "If -you prepare a petition, I will consider it, but I cannot offer you -any hope. They all come to me with the same plea--the wife and the -mother--but they do not take the wife and the mother into account when -the blow is struck. It is late to think of them when the prison door is -closed. You will pardon me, father, but I am very tired to-night." - -He extended his hand, in token that the interview was at an end, and -Mike arose from his chair in the shadow. He stood awkwardly turning -his hat while the Governor shook the priest's hand, and then shuffled -forward to be dismissed. - -"Good night, sir," said the Governor. "I did not hear your name--" - -"Murphy," said the priest quickly--"Michael Murphy. He is the father of -the boy." - -The Governor looked the old man over carefully, and the old man's eyes -fell under his keen glances. - -"Mike Murphy?" asked the Governor slowly. "Are you the Mike Murphy -who used to go to old No. 3 school in Harmontown, forty--no, nearly -fifty--years ago? There was a Mike Murphy sat on my bench. Are you the -boy they called Red Head?" - -The old man tried to answer. His lips formed the words, but his voice -did not come. He nodded his head. - -"Be seated, gentlemen," said the Governor, and Father Maurice sat down -hopefully. Mike Murphy dropped into a chair with deeper dejection. - -[Illustration: 23] - -"Well, well!" The Governor nodded his head slowly, his gray eyes -searching the ruddy face before him. "So you are the Mike Murphy who -used to drub me?" - -He smiled grimly. His eyes strayed from the old man's face, and their -glance was lost in the air above his head. He smiled again, as he sat -with the fingers of his left hand pressing the thin skin into a roll -above his cheek bone, for he recalled an incident of his boyhood. - -The Governor had once been an arrant little coward. His mother lived in -the big white house two blocks above the schoolhouse, on the opposite -side of the street. Red Head Mike lived across the alley in a shanty. -The Governor's mother bought milk of Mrs. Murphy, and Red Head brought -it every evening. - -Red Head was a wonderful boy. He was the first to go barefoot in the -spring, picking his way with painful carefulness over the clods in -the street. He was the only boy who chewed tobacco. The others chewed -licorice or purple thistle tops, but Red Head had the real thing. He -even smoked a real pipe without dire consequences, and laughed at the -other boys' mild substitutes of corn silk and "lady cigars"; and the -way he swore was a liberal education. All the boys swore more or less, -especially when they were behind the barn smoking com silk, but they -knew it was not natural It was a puny imitation, but the Red Head -article sounded right. - -But it was when it came to fighting that Red Head had proved his right -to the worship of the world. He could lick any two boys in the school. -The Governor, who was plain Willie Gary then, could not fight at all. -His early youth was one great fear of being whipped. The smallest boys -in the school were accustomed to practice on him until they gained -sufficient dexterity or courage to attack one another. He had a hundred -opprobrious nicknames, which he accepted meekly. "Cry-baby" was the -favorite. When he was attacked he hid his face in his arm and bawled, -leaning his arm against any convenient fence or tree, while his -tormentor drubbed his back at pleasure. He was happy when he could sneak -home unmolested. The chiefest of his tormentors was Red Head, but there -was no partiality. All the boys drubbed him. - -One day Mrs. Gary made him a pair of breeches. They were good, stout -breeches of dove colored corduroy, and his mother was proud of them. -So was Willie. As he walked to school he felt that every one saw and -admired them He felt as conspicuous as when, in a dream, he went to -school in his night dress, but he felt more comfortable. - -[Illustration: 26] - -He took his seat in the school room proudly, and when he was called to -the blackboard to do a sum he walked with a strut. He felt that even -the big boys--the wonderful youths who had money to jingle in their -pockets--observed him, and he blushed as he imagined the eyes of the -little women on the girls' side of the room following him. - -As he crossed the floor, the legs of his breeches rubbed against each -other, giving forth the crisp corduroy sound of "Whist--whist--whist." -It could be heard in the farthest corner. All the scholars looked up from -their slates or books. He caught Bessie Clayton's eye upon him, and his -cheek flamed. She had blue eyes and yellow curls, and snubbed him daily. - -Even the teacher glanced at his new breeches. Willie paused in his sum -and looked at them with satisfaction himself. Then he walked back to his -bench, and the corduroy spoke again--"Whist--whist--whist." It was as -musical as the clumping of a new pair of red topped boots. - -As he slid into his place on his bench, Red Head turned his face and -made a mouth. - -"Don't you think you're smart, Whistle Breeches?" he whispered. - -"Whist--whist," said the breeches in reply, as Willie moved, and every -eye in the school seemed to gaze on him, not enviously as before, but -sneeringly. Who'd want whistle breeches? - -[Illustration: 31] - -When the recess bell rang, Willie walked to the playground with short -steps, but still the corduroy whistled. Two boys behind him laughed, -and Willie burned with shame. They must be laughing at his new breeches. -Bessie Clayton passed him, and he stood motionless, crowded against the -wall, until she was out of hearing. - -He paused in the doorway timidly. Red Head was standing just outside, -one shoulder turned toward Freckles Redmond. It was the signal for a -fight, and the small boys were crowded about them. - -"Aw, you're one yourself," Red Head was saying, "an' you dassan't say -it agin. I dare you to say it," he cried, but he caught sight of Willie. -"Huh!" he shouted. "Look here, fellers! Here's Whistle Breeches. Let's -spit on 'em!" - -The boys crowded into the entry and spat on them. Red Head pulled -Willie's hair twice, drawing his head forward as he would pull a bell -rope. - -"Don't he think he's smart?" "Wouldn't have 'em!" "Whistle Breeches! -Whistle Breeches!" they shouted in derision, and Willie whimpered and -edged into a corner. - -"Don't you do that," he said in a choking voice. "I'll tell teacher, I -will!" - -Red Head stuck his freckled face close and shoved him with a warlike -shoulder. His fists were doubled, and he jabbed Willie with his elbow. - -"Aw, you tell him, then, why don't you, Whistle Breeches?" he inquired. -"Jist you tell him, an' I'll punch your face off." - -He drew his arm back and feinted, Willie crooked his elbow to hide his -face. - -"Aw, come on, fellers," said Red Head with deep disgust. "What's the -use of foolin' with him? He ain't nothin' but a cry-baby in whistle -breeches. He ain't no fun." - - - - -III. - -That noon Willie remained in the schoolroom until the boys had gone. -Some went home for dinner, and the rest ate their lunches under the oak -tree at the side of the school. When the room was clear, Willie stole -out by the back way and ran rapidly up the alley. He knew he was branded -for life; The shame of the name of Whistle Breeches bore him down. He -meditated wild plans for getting rid of the offending garment. He would -burn it, lose it in the river. - -He even considered running away from home. - -[Illustration: 35] - -After dinner he slipped quietly away from the table, crept up to his -room under the slanting roof, and put on his old, patched breeches. He -came down quietly, but his mother caught him tiptoeing through the hall. - -"Why, Willie," she said, "where are your new trousers, dear?" - -"Up-stairs," he said simply. "I don't want to wear them They--they're -too tight." - -His mother saw the prevarication in the droop of his head. - -"Nonsense!" she answered lightly. "They fit you perfectly, dear. If they -are a little stiff now, they will soon wear soft. Go up and put them -on." - -"I don't want to," he replied stubbornly. He meant, "I will not," but he -had learned the disadvantage of contradicting his mother flatly. - -"William," said his mother sternly, "go up-stairs and put on those -trousers this instant." - -He climbed the stairs slowly. He hoped he would be late to school. He -would be so leisurely in donning them that his mother would make him -stay at home to avoid the greater disgrace of being tardy. He thought of -playing sick, but decided such an illness would be too sudden to excite -his mother's sympathy. If only the schoolhouse would burn down, or -word come that the teacher was dead! But neither came to pass, and his -mother's voice sounded from the hall, bidding him hurry. - -With his load of shame, he slunk out of the gate and crept to school, -hugging the fences and making himself as insignificant and small as -possible, walking with short steps to avoid the endless "whist--whist" -of the corduroy. He sniffled as he thought of the wo the day still held -for him. Some men, going back to business, glanced at him to see the -cause of his whimpering. He imagined they were thinking cruel things of -his breeches. - -He heard the tardy bell ring, and then he ran in and hurried to his -seat. As he hastened down the aisle the corduroy spoke louder than -before, but if Red Head heard, he made no sign, and as Willie sidled on -to the bench beside him he kept his nose buried in his book. - -Willie did not go to the playground at the afternoon recess. He would -have died rather, and for once he saw the advantage of the rule that the -tardy scholar must lose that half hour of play. - -When school ended for the day, Willie hoped the teacher would keep him -in. He was willing to be whipped rather than meet Red Head again, but -he was dismissed with the rest. He paused in the doorway, gathering -his breath to make a run for liberty, as he had often run to escape -his persecutors. As he waited, he saw Red Head approaching, and he drew -back; but Red Head stepped up to him and took him by the arm. - -"You let me alone now!" whimpered Willie. - -"Aw, shut up," said Red Head roughly. "I ain't goin' to hurt you. You -shut up an' don't be a cry-baby. Come along an' I won't let 'em hurt -you." - -Fighting and scuffling were not allowed in the entry. Willie put his -thumb in his mouth and gazed at Red Head doubtfully. Such friendliness -was unnatural. It savored of a plot to entice him forth to be -slaughtered. It was not easy to believe that the Red Head who had -drubbed him a hundred times, and who scorned him as a cry-baby, should -seek to defend him. - -Red Head waited. - -"Come on," he said at length. "I'll let you help me drive the cow home -tonight." - -Still Willie hesitated, although he was almost willing to risk a licking -to be allowed to slap the sleek legs of Mrs. Murphy's cow with a limber -willow switch. - -[Illustration: 40] - -"Come on," said Red Head. "I'll let you smoke my pipe." - -"Won't you lick me?" asked Willie doubtfully. - -"Naw, I won't lick you. What would I want to lick you for?" Willie -followed Red Head hesitatingly, with an eye to a safe retreat, if -necessary. - -One of the boys came forward from the group by the gate. - -"Hi, here comes Whistle Breeches!" he shouted gleefully. - -"Whistle--Bree-ches--Whistle--Bree-ches--Whistle--Bree-ches--" - -Red Head turned and clenched his fists, his blue eyes blazing; "Shut up, -Bob Palmer!" he cried fiercely. "Don't you call him that. That ain't no -name to call a feller. You jist wisht you had breeches like 'em!" - -Bob stopped suddenly. He looked at Red Head in astonishment. Then he -turned and ran to the boys by the gate. They listened to what he -said, and then began a loud singsong chant: "Whistle--Bree-ches ---Whistle--Bree-ches--Whistle--Bree-ches!" - -[Illustration: 44] - -Red Head bounded forward, his eyes glowing with anger. He toppled two -boys over, and rained his blows right and left. - -"Don't youse call him that!" he cried. - -It was a surprise. The boys drew back and stood ready to scatter at the -next onslaught. Red Head waited, puffing, With clenched fists. - -"The next feller that calls him that, I'll break his face!" he -threatened. "An' I ain't foolin', neither." - -They saw that he was not, and they waited respectfully as Red Head and -Willie walked away. - -Willie went with Red Head to drive the cow home, and Red Head taught him -how to double up his fist for battle according to the traditions of the -school, with the knuckle of the second finger protruded. - -"You jist do that," he explained, "an' you can hurt 'em worse. An' if -they fight back, kick 'em in the legs. That's how I do. Why, you're as -big as I am, an' I bet you're jist as strong. You jist stand up to 'em. -There ain't nothin' in fightin' when you know how. If you jist stand -up to 'em, they 'most always back down. You begin on Tom Ament. He's -a bigger baby'n you are. Anybody kin lick him I kin lick him with my -little finger. An' then you tackle Shorty. He's a baby, too. You're jist -afraid." - -It was Red Head who egged Willie on to strike Tom Ament the next day, -and Red Head coached him until Tom took to his heels, defeated. Then -Red Head made him lick Shorty, and with the lust of victory in his veins -Willie worked his way upward, and soon the other mothers began telling -Willie's mother that he was a bad boy, always fighting, and Mrs. Gary -wept over him. But no one called him Whistle Breeches, and he learned -that he was as much of a man as any of them, and more of a man than -most. - -Then came a battle royal, when Red Head and Willie stood face to face -and pounded each other for a good half hour for supremacy, and Willie -went down with a bleeding nose and an eye that was dark for days. - -But Red Head had taught him self confidence, and self confidence made -him the Governor of a great State. - - - - -IV. - -When the Governor's eyes came back to Mike Murphy's face, they rested a -moment on the grizzled red hair, and a smile softened the lines of his -mouth. - -"Mike," he said, "I believe you used to give me a drubbing about once -every day." - -The old Irishman moved uneasily, and his hands played nervously with -the rim of his hat. He drew his feet under his chair, and moved his -lips without speaking. He thought of that last fierce battle, when the -Governor had fallen with a bleeding nose, and he shifted his eyes from -spot to spot on the soft carpet. He felt as does a mouse when the cat -plays with it. - -The Governor turned to Father Maurice. - -"Father," he said, "I do not often allow myself a personal indulgence, -but I have an unsettled score with Mike. I shall settle it now. I am -going to pardon that young man." - -Two tears fell from the priest's eyes and rolled slowly into the white -forest of his beard. Mike Murphy stared straight before him, while his -fingers felt vaguely for the rim of the hat that had fallen from his -hands. - -[Illustration: 51] - -"Go home, Mike," said the Governor gently. "Go home and tell the wife -and the mother." When his petitioners had departed, the Governor sat -long in the reception room, thinking of the old days. When he opened his -watch it was not to note the hour, but to look on a woman's likeness; -and he crossed his arms on the desk and buried his face in them. The -old days had given him much that the later years had stolen from him. He -sighed and lifted his head. - -"Poor old Mike!" he said. "I'm square with him at last. I wonder why he -took my part that day?" And he wearily climbed the stair to his lonely -room. - -He did not know that when Red Head went home that noon, nearly fifty -years before, he had found Mrs. Murphy cutting out a pair of corduroy -breeches. - -[Illustration: 53] - - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Red Head and Whistle Breeches, by -Ellis Parker Butler - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RED HEAD AND WHISTLE BREECHES *** - -***** This file should be named 44152.txt or 44152.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/1/5/44152/ - -Produced by David Widger - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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