Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-15
PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
Through to China

This morning got TO thinking about th,
l. lady with the new baby on the corner
and after a while / understood why sh
was mad at me and ran me off. She wal
nau because said | would not let Rowdy
KISS her baby. So I looked at Rowdy ant
sald: Want TO kiss the ladys baby?'
| hoWdy wagged his tail, so we went over
on on tne corner and when the lady opened
| the door and said. What do YOU want
now?' | said. ~ have come TO let my dog
| KISS your baby. I don't think It will hurt
| nlni' besides. he doesn't care much what
ne Kisses You should have seen the way
sne slammed the door in my face. There
~ no pleasing some people.
| lhen we went to school and Rowdy lay
/ dowh by my desk, the way he always does.
me teacher said Patsy Kildare Is ex-
| einpI looked at my feet and they were
| All right and my hands were folded on
| my desk and | could not see anything
wrong So I stood up and said. u think
you are wrong. teacher. I have never been
exempt, and II any one has told YOU
am, please tell me who did" I turned and
iooked Peanuts Feeney right In the eve
ana he scuffed with his feet and said:
II was not me" Then the teacher said
Patsy, ] mean that you have had your
studies so well that you are excused from
all tests and you need not come TO school
next week. Then all the kids laughed
Ihat was certainly good Joke on me
Just before school let out the teacher
said, "lf you should dig a hole through
the earth you would come out in China
where the Chinese live" After she said
that was in hurry 10 get home and see
" 1t was true When I got home | took
me hrc shovel aud started TO dig under the
kitchen window. when ! got tired I went
10 see Bell and Lunny and the hole was
not halt up my body, and ! did not think
| was half way to China but when I
went to look into the hole after / came
oack and II was getting kind of dark there
was something sitting in the hole so I
thought It was Chinese. ! was certainly
surprised, and Rowdy barked and cut IN
something scandalous. 7 said TO Rowdv
Miss Dangler certainly knows what she is
taking about. She's lot smarter than
she looks"
we sat and looked at the Chinese a long
time TIL II got dark I poked at him with
stick but he did not say a word Then
hoWdy ana ! went and sat on the front
porch and ] told him all about China and
the Chinese, and said how glad I was that
mad got one and that I would keep him
ana charge all the kids five cents apiece to
see MIN. SO we went and ! asked Old Maid
iompklns what Chinese eat, and she said
dried fish and rice. After that we went TO
the store and got some rice and dried fish
and took them home and threw them into
the mole, and the Chinese did not say a
word. guess he does not know how TO
tax to little girl who is Irish.
covered the hole with n washtub and
Rowdy and ! went in and lneeed down
and prayed Dear mother. which art I'm
Heaven have to admit that my teacher
is smarter than she looks She told me
how to catch a Chinese. and I caught one.
but ] think that you and God had some
thing TO do with putting him there for me.
| thank you anyway, and please thank God
for me. | wish you would help me think
what to name him, Amen"
Getting Even" the next Patsy Kildare ad-
Ledger. ~" H''"'"s