Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-10

PATSY KILDARE
BY JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
The Neuc Pet

ANsst ~
AFTER woke this morning at Jim
Zland Maggie's lay long time hold
ing on to one OF Rowdy's ears and just
thinking about there not being any school
today because II is Saturday / didn't
care much because there wasn't. I will
so to school every day there Is school.
for my mother and my father want me
10 be educated, but YOU can believe me
when ! say that I'm not crazy about 1t.
There isn't enough exercise in school
for Rowdy and me. When l thought
about that part of II Eowdy bumped
what is left of his tail on the floor. SO
YOU can't tell me that he does not know
what I am thinking about
When I got up and went downstairs |
asked Maggie whether Jim and MIXED
vet and he hadn't, SO ! said / would, but
I didn't. for the COW kicked the pail over
the fence and missed my nose with her
foot about an inch. | went into the
house and asked Maggie what was hurt.
ing the silly COW, and she said the COW
would not let any one but man milk
her and that If | would put on a pair
of Jim's pants 1t would fool the COW.
But | wouldn't do It. for ] thought II
got lOSl III lItIll 1 lll'thN NV ''N i'''
self in time for school Monday morn.
ing, which is n joke
Then Jim came in from the barn and
took the pail which the cow kicked and
went out and miked. After he had
breakfast he went on his milk route and
It began TO get daylight. Maggie said.
Where are you going today, Patsy?" |
said. whats II to you?" She said, mot
a thing i'm the world" 7 said, II do not
now where I shall go, but do YOU think
II is going TO be n warm day. Maggie
went to the door and looked at the sky
and said she did, so Rowdy and ] ram
bled out to where they planted grampa
and the old lady who went to heaven and
where ] saw the big snake by the water
hole. The Young man was out in the
field and / said to him, 81 have come to
shoot the snake. Has he come out YETI
The Young man said, He came out yes
terday and il IL so warm today that |
think he will come out again. We Will
take the rifle and get his goat or would
YOU rather have him alive?' ] said.
I'D rather have him alive"
So we went into the woods and the
young man cut n long pole with fork
in the end of it and then we went to
the house and he put wire scream over
the front of box, leaving one corner
loose. By lldl lllllt lHt was IpN
and we went to the pond and there was
the snake lying on the bank, Rowdy
and I stayed on one side of the pond
and the young man slipped along slowly
and without any noise. and just about
the time Rowdy and ] were tired enough
to bark and holler he got near the snake
Then he reached out with the stick and
put the fork over the snakes neck and
YOU should have seen that snake wake
up and try to go away from there. He
certainly was squirmy. Then the young
man pushed his hand down the pole and
got hold of the snake by the neck, and
this was not a performing snake but a
wild snake which had Stingers.
1t twisted itself around his arm and |
asked him IL he was not scared and he
said Nav" which means the same as
no So he put the snake into the box
and tackled the corner of the scream and
| | am going to sleep in his house again
and the box is beside my bed. I have
watched the snake all the afternoon and
| 1t slams loose at me whenever I go near
! the scream. ] am going to take it so ]
can do tricks with il like the woman on
the stage whose snake put roller skates
on. will travel with it wrapped around
/ Rowdy. don't know what it cats.
but if it likes spaghetti it can swallow
long pieces whole.
adventure, appears In tOmorrow's Evening
/ Public Ledger.