"Why, that's fifty cents!" Celia Jane cried.
"Enough to buy a ticket to the circus!" Danny added. "Where is it? Let's see it."
"It's all gone," Jerry told his tormentors.
"Fifty cents! And you spent all of it at once!" wailed Celia Jane.
"That must of bought a whole lot of candy," said Danny. "Fork out. No fair holding any back."
Jerry produced the small paper bag of cough drops and gave it to Mother 'Larkey.
"They're cough drops with honey in 'em for Kathleen," he said. "I ain't eaten one of them."
"Give me one, Mother," pleaded Celia Jane.
"They're for Kathleen," replied her mother. "She needs them and you don't."
"Jerry's Kathleen's pet! Jerry's Kathleen's little honey cough-drop boy!" chanted Danny.