“‘YOU HAVE TOO MUCH HEART’”
“‘There must be a little left,’ I said, ‘just a little bit. I’ll make it my business to find it. Good morning,’ and with this threat I left him and ran, ran for River Street.”
“Good for you,” said Margaretta.
“I swept along like a whirlwind. I gathered up the children and took them down on Milligan’s Wharf.”
“‘Children,’ I said, ‘do you know who the Mayor is?’
“They said he was the big man down in the city hall.
“‘And how did he get there?’
“‘They votes him in, and they votes him out,’ a bootblack said.
“‘Who votes?’ I asked.