Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

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."
 Yes, Polly" answered the young woman.
 You had gene to Europe. You had iGst packed up and skated as if the police were alter you. Mother. said ele didn't believe you wanted to go the feast little bit, but that your moth. e made you
 Don't talk nonsense. Polly"
 Well, you skated anyhow"
 And don't talk slang.
 Skated isn't slang. 1t 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 big dog. He was tough. So was his dog He shouted at me:
 Take care of your dog!
 Why?' I answered.
 ss, Cause my dog will chew him np.'
 T was just going to tell him that if his dog did there would be trouble in the camp, when it sprang upon noor Flora and ended her life. l cant describe my feelings as 1 saw her breathing her last.
 We'll, don't try to-not if there's aay slang in it.''
 Why. Hilda, 1 haven't said slang word You know how very, very par. tIeuiar mother is With me. Nc, I can t describe my feelings, but remember hat I went for that boy, tooth and toe-nail I hit and scratched and kicked and bit and I was doing him a3p when"
 Polly sewell!" exclaimed Miss Iiilda ill horror
 Now what's happened?' Polly asked. II told it to papa just this way, and he patted me on the shoul- der and called me good girl. As l was saying, l was putting in my best i!ells when along came taxi with a Tat woman in it. Maybe she was eloping, and maybe she only wanted [ so get home 10 lunch Maybe the chauffeur yelled 4Hi.' at me, and maybe he just wanted to kill another :,irl However it was, he ran n.e down, Yes, cousin, l was knocked uug' } {
 NouSmean you lost consciousness 2
 Gracious, tdt how ignorant yc;l are for a girl of twenty! Nobody can he knocked out without losing thei! l nsciousness. That's the whole idea i cs it. Yes, I was knocked out anG i counted cut. ard when I came to. was in thslhospital with three sbrokep 1lbs. That fat woman must haAe N1oighed ton. It was hours and hoslss before came to, and then-oh. 1 tns,f--" sE+ .7> 2a
 Then what?"
 Then there was the lovefiest angc standing beside my cot in thes hes l pitai you ever saw. Nobody knew W no was. and they had s1,ung far tie ambulance and taken me to the hos ri-al. And, oh, that angel, cousin that angel!"
 You mean nurse, of cOErSe." T don't. mean a man-a doctor. , i.e had hold of my hand. He was , looking down on me with his sad. sad eyes. I~saw at once that he had some great sorrow on his mind sYes, he had the finest eyes-and curly hair, and a handsome nose, and Whel he spoke to me there was pathos in his voice. And the fun of the whole thing was that knew him at once. while he didn't know me from a side lof sole-leather, Oh. you are interested. are your" .S /
 Polly. I was just thinking how frightened you must have been to find yourself in hosiptal." said the blush ing Hilda.
 "Oh. see! We'll, save your sym pathy. A hospital with an angel doctor to fix up your broken ribs isn't half bad place. In fact, liked it so well that lied tq stay there" Z i"Rolly SeweA!I J I
 T sure did. They had gone through my outfit without finding my address and had concluded I was stranger in the town. When opened my eyes apd sort O swinked at the angel"
 "Polly. that's surely slang!"'~ No it idn't ! told papa about t, and he said things had come to 6 pretty pass if girl with three broken ribs couldn't wink at the angel-dcc. /, tor who has set them. Wien had opened my eyes and winked the doc , tor said:
 "Little girl, what is your name?'
 "It's Hanah Jones'.
 knd where do wou kye?'A
 1t far-o6 Hnaekkerrv Corrers'
 Polly. you ought 10 fasaxk.,s SCI to 1ail!" was the epn phs tlc conn sssssse
 But had my little schvne t. woi you see. Papa huntef for fro e...