Andy did not get this.

At two years of age he had lost all the roundness of babyhood.

His limbs were slender, his body thin and his face colorless and hungry-looking.
About this time--that is, when Andy was two years old--Mrs.Burke took sick and died.

She had been failing for several months, and unable to earn sufficient even to pay her rent.

But for the help of neighbors and an occasional supply of food or fuel from some public charity, she would have starved.