The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-12
BabyJim, BabyTed-
dy and Kitty Kate

Why don't you marry one or IN,
other OF us?s said Teddy. "I.orr
Knows, We have asked you often
enough al least have.
Thompson, who had invited Kate
and Teddy to share a homewardb bound
journey in bis automobile, was busy
getting bis machine under way. Ted.
dy Walton and Jim Thompson had
long been suitors for the hand Oh
Kitty Kate, as dainty Katherine
Comstock had been quantity nick
named by her friends.
A good-naured girl she was pret-
" and playful-maybe that's why they
called her kitty Kate"
Az any rate. said Kitty Kate 10
Teddy. ~Tbe reason don't put one
or the other OF you ont OF misery
Is this: Neither one Of you babies
knows what he wants or why he wants
it,
Thompson heard what Kitty Kate
said, and be laughed. That's anoth.
er one she handed Teddy he thought
--then again
= guess II was handed me just as
we'll And the car was shooting
along now at speed THAT was faster
than the ordinances allowed and
Thompson wasn't steering he car
very well. either, because he was try
ing to hear what Kitty Kate and Ted
dy were saying.
Crash the car had run plump
into big brewery wagon There was
noise OF rending wood and metal
When Thompson regained conscious
ness he was in room in a hospital
Teddy was in the next cot to his own.
"She?'' asked Thompson
Never touched her. said Teddy
Good but you are tough look
ing object said Thompson.
"a horse apiece, said Teddy
or course Kitty Kate came with a
great big bunch OF American beauties.
and oranges. and cigars with crimson
bands on them which the doctor Sc
cretly threw under the bed Teddy
was not badly hurt and was taken
home. 1t was different with Jim. That
fractured leg OF his was bound mp,
4 rope attached to it, and bag Of
sand held it in place over pulley.
little child was brought in and
placed In the cot that had been occu-
pied by Teddy. Poor little thing
hought Thompson
Night came on. Thompson had fall
en- asleep, fitful sleep, awakened by
IN unending, annoying repetition or
phrase Mamma, dwink; please give
,aby dwink
He looked over at the child NAM
ma, dwink." she repeated
BY II, you'll have it, kid" said big
i'm Thompson. lie felt the rope that
'ound his incased leg to the foot of
he bed, pulled himself across the
ron table and reached the next cot.
he pain was fierce. N
Here, old man, he said to the
aby, handing her cup, take
rink The baby put her lips 70 It
nd cried: Mamma want
wink" There was nothing in the
up D itn exclaimed big Jim,
drank that water myself forgot"
1t was real hell for Jim to strug-
lie back to bed, but be didn't mind
2 heard but the child's voice MAN
Ia, a dwink." but 1t had sung away.
anisbed forever.
They took Jim home two days after
was weeks before he could hohble
n crutches. His first visit was TO
itty Kate Il want you to marry
e. he said.
Have you forgotten, she said. soft.
about the baby that cries for
ink that it does not need?9
"Ah,' he replied, they told YOU Of
at incident Of the hospital. ! did not
,qw II was known. but ! suppose
Ioke Of It in my delirium. Poor Kid,
couldn't even reach the button to
II the nurse. was all in. Kitty
ate all in, or that kid would have
d that drink but what has that 70
with you--or--m Cor
"Oh, Jim" said Kitty Kate, "it made
2 decide II made me take one OF
o big babies Baby Jim or Baby
iddy-and I'm going 10 take Baby
n, and Babby Teddy says that II p
uldnt take him. he'd rather see me
We Baby Jim than any one else"