Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30

| He comes to see me and pays for my keep
I can stay as long as my father wishes me
| TO, and | go out to school. Most all the
others have never been nowhere but the
back yard and off TO the country part the
time in summer Your aunt must have been
very poor If she lived in the country. Was
her house little?"
Yes. it was little said Rosy
Very" questioned kathy.
ut was the littlest house we ever saw"
said the four year-old Maud.
Then, tell you what; you're better off
here at the 'sylum,' said kathy world OF
cheer In her voice. The country is nice In
the summer. but of course. the 'sylum has
a big house out there to send you to. 1t
must be terrible in the winter. and it must
be awful, always, in a little bit Of house
like your aunt's'
at was nice little house" said Rosy
but out aunt was crying every day we
were there"
=" Cause she didn't want you to stay: she
wouldn't had enough for you all to eat,
reckon" said kathy. II know about these
things, for my father talks to me on every
subject He says the 'sylum is the best
place there is for children, and he knows
cause he's smart"
Then the five-year-old girl asked ques-
ton that astonished Kathy SIS your father
professor" she asked.
No" said Kathy. hes in a livery sta
ble."
What's that?' asked Maud
What's what?' said Kathy. "A livery
stable? Why, it's place where there's
lots of horses to hire. My father helps
take care of the horses
Papa used TO drive a beautiful team"
said Rosy; but he's dead and gone, my
papa is"
Mamma is dead and gone, too said
Maud, land l reckon the horses papa used
to drive are dead and gone"
Il reckon they are, said Rosy, and I
guess old dog Rush laid down and
died when he heard that papa and mamma
were dead"
Dead and gone" said the little one
But who, for lands sakes, was the pro-
fessor?" asked Kathy.
why, he was grandpa" said Rosy
Grandpa is dead and gone" said Maud.
Say, girls" said Kathy, Tets run over
TO those boys; want to tell 'em some'n.
Paul Smith. that boy leaning against the
pillar, came here when he was IN dresses
but cousin carries him out and tells him
things and is going to take him away as
soon as he's eight years old. He thinks
he's. the grandest person walking the earth"
She grabbed the hands of them two" and
made for Paul.
What do you think, Paul" she cried, tri-
umphantly. Rosy and Maud had grand
father and he was professor"
That's nothin'," said Paul.
''Nothin'. indeed retorted Kathy, hotly.
Professors wrote all them books in Miss
Morgan,s library; professors teach schools
and colleges and they make Biographies
and histries. Nothin'. indeed! That shows
what you know"
Are they rich?" asked Paul
u. S
better than bein rich"
1--WE got a cousin" said Paul. turning
to Rose and Maud and holding high his
proud little head. She's rich; she's going
to take me away when I'm eight; I'm seven
now. She's got carriage and a horse
Zone carriage and one horset" exclaimed
Kathy, still wrathful at the insult to the
professor. ''Their father drove two horses
and he wasn't a livery man either" Her
voice fell suddenly, and she asked in a
half whisper, HE wasn't was he, Rosy?"
Wasn't what?" questioned Rosy.
Wasn't livery MANI"
81 don't know, said Rosy. IT don't
think he was"
s.Her father works in a livery stable"
said the small proud boy, looking at Kathy
and laughing.
"And he pays for my keep" screamed
Kathy. land he's a smart man."
Rosy's little hands came together as near
as possible with Kathy's hand between
them.
Maybe he's professor too" she said
softly.
II reckon Kathy is going to be a pro-
fessor. herself" said Paul
81 wish ] could" retorted Kathy. II
would like to write Biographies and his
tries, and know everything"
The little girl who had announced her
intention, confidentially and in public, to
kill anybody who ventured to part herself
and her sister, cast two round belligerent
blue eyes at the proud boy"
Il hope Kathy will be 'fessor," she
said
ooh. she's one now" screamed the boy.
81 didn't know what a 'fessor was. A
'fessor peeps and listens SOS to know
things Kathy's 'fessor aready."
Five minutes later. Mamie Star pounced
upon the proud little boy, with a look
which said plainly enough that she would
like to shake him, but shaking was for
hidden at the asylum, and the head nurse
was Lear.
"Ain't you 'shamed of yourself?'l she
said You gone and made Kathy cry.
She's told them two what you said was
SO that she do peep and listen, and that
she's bad. had girl and she amt"
HE made me so mad, said hathy, IN
Ter corner, wiping away her tears, '' cause
know it is mean to peep and listen. Don't
neither of you ever do 1t.
'.No indeed" said Rosy.
"'Cause ladies don't" said Maud
After awhile Kathy laughed. Every
body here Is going to call you them two
she said, "for we get into funny ways at
the 'sylum, and you was christened them
two, before you left the par1or, and IT s
quicker to say than Rosy and MAUD. the
time'H come when you two'n go away. and
everybody'll say: Them two's gone! and
ii I'm still around, maybe I'll like you 90
much that I'll cry. But you won't care,
you'll be gone.
Indeed we viii care" said Rosy.
",Cause you're never goin' to peep no
more" said Maud, her face seraphic.
Zone doesn't know what onell do-al-
ways" said Kathy. slowly. but II you
two girls will promise to be my friends
Til promise to be yours, through thick and
thin
faithfully to be Kathy's friends, through
thick and thin; that somebody was the
Kathy exclaimed solemnly: Then. there's
my hand; I'm your friend now and al
ways.
CTo be continued next Saturday,