The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-18
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TWAS kinda sorry this morning when
III ! woke up and kissed Rowdy his
slap hanger on the nose. was
sorry because | had made Brayton mad
by telling him what a mutt he was. be-
cause he could not turn a flip or walk
on his hands. OF course, he was all
that without me telling him about II.
! guess he thought mebby did not
know Ii and when he found out | did
that was what made him mad. II is
tough luck to be licked and not have
dog and be told something like that all
on the same morning. ] laid there so
long thinking about hir1 that my faith
er came with can OF soup before ! got
out OF bed. and then was glad that
] had stayed in bed so long, for il
was tomato soup and when you warm
it up and put milk with it il tastes a
whole lot better than the pancakes
would have mAde would have tasted,
and | can make good pancakes.
And then II WIS early yet, 50 me and
Rowdy went around the corner to take
a look at the house where Mrs Cross
used to live and where we had heard
the knocking last night, and the front
door was open and somebody had
moved In sure enough, but | did not
see any Of them until little girl with
a dirty face and hands came down
the front steps crying. and she came
right u the gate where ! was standing
and looked, through IL At me, and !
said, What is hurting your And
she swallowed acoupie Of times and
said. "l'm dot q gweat big dollie and
when me picked Il up today last night
hers head dwopped wite off an he
was full OF drass." | said "Thst Is
nothing. all dolls are full Of grass or
sawdust. and you mustn't cry or your
face might ffcere that way"
THEN she swallowed two times more
= and said, "When hers head fell
on the gwound it sure bwoke much,'
and then she began TO cry worse than
ever and ] saw a part OF dolls face
on the path inside the yard, and she
was such little girl and ! looked At
Rowdy and Rowdy looked at me and
then he wagged his tail and knew he
was thinkis Of the same thing ] was.
and we went back 10 our house where
my father was asleep, and got my
Alice baby doll and was going 10 take
Il over to her, but I sat down on our
step and undressed and dressed il
once more, and then ] kissed II and |
made Rowdy XII" Il and he did, and
then we went around the corner with
il, but my legs hated 10 20 so bad
that just had to hang onto the fence
and pull myself along, and then | got
to the gate and the little girl was
there yet, and I opened the gate and
put the doll into her arms, and then
me and Rowdy ran around the corner
and into out yard. and I erawled un.
der our house and Is fat back IS |
could get and sat there and wiped my
tears away with my dress, and Rowdy
laid with his lIRad IN my lap and felt
as bad about II AL did. ] expect the
first thing the little mutt does she
will 20 and dros, that dollis and ito
hea4will burst I darn sight mucher
than hers did a
When had wiped my tears away q
few times and they had stopped com.
ing tried my smile on Rowdy and
he wagsed his tail 10 I knew IL was
all right again, and then we erawled
out and hiked for school. and smiled
at all the people ] met and one lady
smiled back and man said, Good
morning, little girl" and then when !
got to school the bell was ringing and