"
"Maybe it was somebody's name?" suggested Nora.
"I don't know."
"It's an Irish name, if it's got an O in front of it, and you said
'O'Queen'," Celia Jane stated.
"Did you ever know an Irish man or Irish woman by the name of
'O'Queen'?" questioned Danny.
"I don't know," repeated Jerry, his lips twisting in real distress at
not being able to think what could have made him say a thing like that.
"You don't know anything, do you?" asked Danny in the teasing,
affronting tone he sometimes adopted with Jerry.
"I do, too," affirmed Jerry, his lips tightening.
"You don't know how old you are," said Celia Jane, following Danny's
lead.
"Do you know what your name is?" asked Danny.
"Jerry Elbow," replied Jerry, hot within at this making fun of his name
which always seemed to give Danny so much enjoyment.
"Jerry _Elbow_," said Danny, putting so much sarcasm into pronouncing
the name as to make it almost unbelievable that it could be a name.
"What kind of a name is that--Elbow! Might as well be Neck--or Foot.
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