"Sure!" conceded Mickey. "That's what I'm going to be when I get through school. I'm going to write a poetry piece about Lily for the first sheet of the _Herald_ that'll be so good they'll pay me to write one every day, but all of them will be about her." "Mickey, is there enough of such a little girl to furnish one every day?" asked the nurse. "Surest thing you know!" cried Mickey enthusiastically. "Why there are the hundred gold rings on her head, one for each; and her eyes, tender and teasy, and sad and glad, one for each; and the colour of them different a dozen times a day, and her little white face, and her lips, and her smile, and when she's good, and when she's bad; why Miss, there's enough of Lily for a book big as Mr. Bruce's biggest law book." "Well Mickey!" cried the girl laughing. "There's no question but you will write the poetry, only I can't reconcile it with the kind of a hustler you are. I thought poets were languid, dreamy, up-in-the-clouds kind of people." "So they are," explained Mickey. "_That_ comes later. First I got to hustle to get Lily's back Carreled and us through school, and ready to _write_ the poetry; then it will take so much dreaming to think out what is nicest about her, and how to say it best, that it would make any fellow languid--you can see how that would be!" "Yes, I see!" conceded the nurse. "Mickey, by Carreling her back, do you mean Dr. Carrel?" "Sure!" cried Mickey. "You see I read a lot about him in the papers I sell. He's the biggest man in the _world! He's bigger than emperors and kings!_ They--why the biggest thing they can _do_ is to kill all their strongest, bravest men. He's so much bigger than kings, that he can take men they shoot to pieces and put them together again. Killing men ain't much! Anybody can do killing! Look at him making folks live! _Gee, he's big!_" "And you think he can make Lily's back better?" "Why I _know_ he can!" said Mickey earnestly. "That wouldn't be a patching to what he _has_ done! Soon as you say she is strong enough, I'm going to write to him and tell him all about her, and when I get the money saved, he'll come and fix her. Sure he will!"