Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-23

SGYET9 NOW COUSIN HHuap Saic
49, the latter, as she smoothed
SIEH down her dress and settled
herself Ia her chair. I'm
going to begin at the beginning and
and tell you all about It, and then we
are to go out and buy a Santa Claus
present for him"
4Yes, Polly" answered the young
woman.
You had CONS to Europe. You had
just packed up and skatsd as if the
police were after you. Mother said
she didn't believe you wanted to go
the least little bit. but that your moth
er made YOU
Don't talk nonsense, Polly"
"Well, you STATED anyhow"
"And don't talk slang" (
"Skated isn't slang. It means that
you just glided off like a streak OF
lightning. You had skated, and I was
lonesome, and I was out walking with
poor Flora, when a boy came along
with a big dog. He was tough. So
was his dog. He shurssds ntSrne.
Take care OF youxaQgl
"sWhy?-' / answered.
"s'Cause my dog Will chew him
upi'
81 was Just going to tell him that
II his dog did there would be trouble
in the camp, when II sprang upon
poor Flora and endedsher life. | cant
describe my feelings & saw her
breathing her last.
We'll, don't trys@te--not~H there's
any slang in 1t. .
why, Hilda, I haven't said a slang
word. You know how very, very par
ticular mother is with me. No, | can't
describe my feelings, but I remember
that I went for that boy, tooth and
~toe-naiI. / hit and scratched and
kicked and bit. and / waa doing him
up when ~
Polly Sewell!" exclaimed Miss
Hilda in horror.
No what's happcned?s Polly
asked. Il told II to papa Just this
way, and he patted ms on the shout
der and called@me good girl. AS I
was saying, ] was putting in my best
ticks when along came a taxi with a
fat woman In 1t. Maybe she was
clipping, and maybe she only wanted
to get home to lunch. Maybe the
chauffeur yelled Hi at me, and
maybe he Just wanted to kill another
girl. However it was, he ran me
down. Yes. cousin. I WA Knocked
OUT.
You mean you lost consciousness?"
"Gracious, but how ignorant you
are for a girl of twenty. Nobody can
be knocked out without losing their
consciousness. That's tho whole idea
of 1t. Yes, / WAS knocked out and
counted out, and when I came to I
was in the hospital with three broken
ribs. That fat woman must have
weighed a ton. 1t was hours and
hours before / came to, and then-oh.
then
Then what?s
Then there was the ioveliest angel
standing beside my cot in the hos
pital you eve saw, Nobody knew
who / was. and they had rung for the
ambulance and taken me to the hos
pital. And, oh, tA~atwangsl, cousin
that ANGEL"
you meal a nurse, of course
Il don't. / mean a man--a doctor.
He had hold OF my hand. He was
looking down on me with his sad,
sad eyes. / Eaw at once that he had
some great sorrow onshisa mind. Yes,
he had the finest eyes-and curly
hair, and q handsome nose, and wheE
he spoke TO me there was pathos In
bis voice. And the fun OF the whole
thing was that / knew him at once,
while he didn't know me ron q side
OF ~scle-Ieather. Oh, you are interested.
are your
Polly. 7 was just thinking how
frightened you must hare been to find
yourself II g hospital" said the blush.
ing Hilda.
+oh. / seeI Well. save your sym
pathy. A hospital with an angel
doctor to fx up your broken ribs Isn't
a half bad place. In fact. / liked it sc
we'll that / lied to stay there"
Polly sewel1ls
II Sur3 d1d IAey nau EoTS
my outfit without finding ny address
and had concluded I was a strane@a
In the town. When ! opened NY eses
and sort O. winked at the anad-
Polly, that's surely slangt
NO it isnt. told papa about 1t
and he said things had COR 10 q
pretty pass IL a girl with tnrsa broker
ribs couldn't wink at the sngelsdoc
tor who has set them. Wh7s has
opened my eyes and wir ala doc
tor said:
Little girl, what Il your eme7'
SITS Hanah Jcnes.
And Where do wou ifveT
Il fsfsea ~nl1cxuerry C~pESers.~
polly. you ought TO have b zen seq
to jazz was the emphatle emment
But ! haa my little scherne q work
ron see. Pana hrnted for IRE day
ClarI and Cutting !
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