never went out to see any one.
She said it was better.
She did not say it was better but it was better. Ida never said anything about anything.
Anyway after that she rested and let them come in, anybody come in. That way no family would come that just would not happen.
So Ida was resting and they came in. Not one by one, they just came in.
That is the way Andrew came he just came in.
He took a walk every afternoon and he always told about what happened on his walk.
He just walked every afternoon.
He liked to hear people tell about good luck and bad luck.
Somebody one afternoon told a whole lot.
Andrew was like that, he was born with his life, why not. And he had it, he walked every afternoon, and he said something every minute of every day, but he did not talk while he was listening. He listened while he was listening but he did not hear unless he asked to have told what they were telling. He liked to hear about good luck and bad luck because it was not real to him, nothing was real to him except a walk every afternoon and to say something every minute of every day.
So he said and what were you saying about good luck and bad luck.
Well it was this. 16
The things anybody has to worry about are spiders, cuckoos goldfish and dwarfs.
Yes said Andrew. And he was listening.
Spider at night makes delight.
Spider in the morning makes mourning.
Yes said Andrew.
Well, said the man who was talking, think of a spider talking.
Yes said Andrew.
The spider says
Listen to me I, I am a spider, you must not mistake me for the sky, the sky red at night is a sailor’s delight, the sky red in the morning is a sailor’s warning, you must not mistake me for the sky, I am I, I am a spider and in the morning any morning I bring sadness and mourning and at night if they see me at night I bring them delight, do not mistake me for the sky, not I, do not mistake me for a dog who howls at night and causes no delight, a dog says the bright moonlight makes him go mad with desire to bring sorrow to any one sorrow and sadness, the dog says the night the bright moonlight brings madness and grief, but says the spider I, I am a spider, a big spider or a little spider, it is all alike, a spider green or gray, there is nothing else to say, I am a spider and I know and I always tell everybody so, to see me at night brings them delight, to see me in the morning, brings mourning, and if you see me at night, and I am a sight, because I am dead having dried up by night, even so dead at night I still cause delight, I dead bring delight to any one who sees me at night, and so every one can sleep tight who has seen me at night.
Andrew was listening and he said it was interesting and said did they know any other superstition.
Yes said the man there is the cuckoo.
Oh yes the cuckoo.
Supposing they could listen to a cuckoo.
I, I am a cuckoo, I am not a clock, because a clock makes time pass and I stop the time by giving mine, and mine is money, and money is honey, and I I bring money, I, I, I. I bring misery and money but never honey, listen to me.
Once I was there, you know everybody, that I I sing in the spring, sweetly, sing, evening and morning and everything.
Listen to me.
If you listen to me, if when you hear me, the first time in the spring time, hear me sing, and you have money a lot of money for you in your pocket when you hear me in the spring, you will be rich all year any year, but if you hear me and you have gone out with no money jingling in your pocket when you hear me singing then you will be poor poor all year, poor.
But sometimes I can do even more.
I knew a case like that, said the man.
Did you said Andrew.
She, well she, she had written a lovely book but nobody took the lovely book nobody paid her money for the lovely book they never gave her money, never never never and she was poor and they needed money oh yes they did she and her lover.
And she sat and she wrote and she longed for money for she had a lover and all she
She said it was better.
She did not say it was better but it was better. Ida never said anything about anything.
Anyway after that she rested and let them come in, anybody come in. That way no family would come that just would not happen.
So Ida was resting and they came in. Not one by one, they just came in.
That is the way Andrew came he just came in.
He took a walk every afternoon and he always told about what happened on his walk.
He just walked every afternoon.
He liked to hear people tell about good luck and bad luck.
Somebody one afternoon told a whole lot.
Andrew was like that, he was born with his life, why not. And he had it, he walked every afternoon, and he said something every minute of every day, but he did not talk while he was listening. He listened while he was listening but he did not hear unless he asked to have told what they were telling. He liked to hear about good luck and bad luck because it was not real to him, nothing was real to him except a walk every afternoon and to say something every minute of every day.
So he said and what were you saying about good luck and bad luck.
Well it was this. 16
The things anybody has to worry about are spiders, cuckoos goldfish and dwarfs.
Yes said Andrew. And he was listening.
Spider at night makes delight.
Spider in the morning makes mourning.
Yes said Andrew.
Well, said the man who was talking, think of a spider talking.
Yes said Andrew.
The spider says
Listen to me I, I am a spider, you must not mistake me for the sky, the sky red at night is a sailor’s delight, the sky red in the morning is a sailor’s warning, you must not mistake me for the sky, I am I, I am a spider and in the morning any morning I bring sadness and mourning and at night if they see me at night I bring them delight, do not mistake me for the sky, not I, do not mistake me for a dog who howls at night and causes no delight, a dog says the bright moonlight makes him go mad with desire to bring sorrow to any one sorrow and sadness, the dog says the night the bright moonlight brings madness and grief, but says the spider I, I am a spider, a big spider or a little spider, it is all alike, a spider green or gray, there is nothing else to say, I am a spider and I know and I always tell everybody so, to see me at night brings them delight, to see me in the morning, brings mourning, and if you see me at night, and I am a sight, because I am dead having dried up by night, even so dead at night I still cause delight, I dead bring delight to any one who sees me at night, and so every one can sleep tight who has seen me at night.
Andrew was listening and he said it was interesting and said did they know any other superstition.
Yes said the man there is the cuckoo.
Oh yes the cuckoo.
Supposing they could listen to a cuckoo.
I, I am a cuckoo, I am not a clock, because a clock makes time pass and I stop the time by giving mine, and mine is money, and money is honey, and I I bring money, I, I, I. I bring misery and money but never honey, listen to me.
Once I was there, you know everybody, that I I sing in the spring, sweetly, sing, evening and morning and everything.
Listen to me.
If you listen to me, if when you hear me, the first time in the spring time, hear me sing, and you have money a lot of money for you in your pocket when you hear me in the spring, you will be rich all year any year, but if you hear me and you have gone out with no money jingling in your pocket when you hear me singing then you will be poor poor all year, poor.
But sometimes I can do even more.
I knew a case like that, said the man.
Did you said Andrew.
She, well she, she had written a lovely book but nobody took the lovely book nobody paid her money for the lovely book they never gave her money, never never never and she was poor and they needed money oh yes they did she and her lover.
And she sat and she wrote and she longed for money for she had a lover and all she
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