Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-05-26
BabyJim, BabyTed-
dy and Kitty Kate

why don't you marry one or the
other OF us?" said Teddy. Lord
Knows. We have asked you often
enough; at least have.
Thompson, who had invited Kate
and Teddy to share homeward-b bound
Journey In HIS automobile, was busy
getting his machine under way. Ted
dy Walton and Jim Thompson had
long been suitors for the hand OF
Kitty Kate" as dainty Katherine
Comstock had been quantity nick
named by her friends.
A good-natured girl, she was pref
~ and playful-maybe that's why they
called her Kitty Kate"
AT any rate. said Kitty Kate TO
Teddy: The reason don't put one
or the other OF you out OF misery
Is this Neither one OF you babies
knows what he wants or why he wants
t."
Thompson heard what Kitty Kate
said, and he laughed. That's anoth-
or one she handed Teddy" he thought
then again:
II guess Il was handed me just as
well" And the car was shooting
along now at n speed that was faster
than the ordinances allowed and
Thompson wasn't steering the car
very well. either, because he was try
ing to hear what Kitty Kate and Ted.
dy were saying.
crash" tho car had run plump
into big brewery wagon. There was
noise OF rending wood and metal.
When Thompson regained conscious
ness he was I'm room I'm n hospital.
Teddy was In the next cot to his own.
"She?" asked Thompson.
Never touched her" said Teddy.
Good" but you arc tough look
ing object" said Thompson.
"A horse apiece" said Teddy.
or course Kitty Kate came with n
great big bunch OF American beauties.
and oranges. and cigars with crimson
bands on them-which the doctor se-
cretly threw under the bed. Teddy
was not badly hurt and was taken
home. IL was different with Jim. That
fractured leg of his was bound up,
n rope attached to II, and bag OF
sand held 1t in place over pulley.
A little child was brought I'm and
placed I'm the cot that had been occu-
pied by Teddy. Poor little thing"
thought Thompson.
Night came on. Thompson had fall
len asleep. n ftful sleep. awakened by
an unending, annoying repetition OF
phrase, Mamma. dwink; please give
baby dwink"
He looked over at the child MAN.
ma dwink." she repeated.
"By -, you'll have It, kid" said big
Jim Thompson. lie felt the rope that
bound his incased leg to- tho foot OF
the bed. pulled himself across the
iron table and reached the next cot.
The pain was fierce.
Here. old man." he said to the
baby, handing her n cup, take
drink" The baby put her lips TO II
and cried Mamma, want
dwink!" There was nothing I'm the
cup. % IT," exclaimed big Jim.
81 drank that water myself. forgot"
II was real hell for Jim to strug.
gle back TO bed but he didn't mind;
he heard but the child's voice: Nam.
ma, dwink," but It had sung away,
vanished forever.
They took Jim home two days after.
IL was weeks before he could hobble
on crutches His first visit was TO
Kitty Kate. 81 want you TO marry
me- he said
Have you forgotten" she said. soft
iy, about the baby that cries for a
drink that II does not need?"
"Ah," he replied, they told you Of
that incident OF the hospital. did not
know 1T was known, but / suppose
spoke Of 1t in my delirium. Poor kid,
] couldn't even reach the button to
call the nurse. was all in, Kitty
Kate all In, or that kid would have
had that drink-but what has that TO
do with you
"Oh. Jim" said Kitty Kate, 1T made
me decide; It made me take one OF
two big babies Baby Jim or Baby
Teddy and I'm going TO take Baby
jim, and Babby Teddy says that If
couldn't take him. he'd rather see mo
have Baby Jim than any one else"
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