Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-03
ICRTSP WEATHER TURNS WOMAN'S MIND TO NEW FUBS
PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
BY JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
The CAPTURE

| ID OWDY and sat a long time last night
1e on the step Of the house where the man
| lives who is a hundred years old There
we're not many stars to look at, so we
| looked at what stars there were. l guess
God was too busy TO hang out all the stars
hut we should have been as well satisned II
lie had hung out only one You can looh
at but one star at time, anyway. was
telling Rowdy about the stars and about
all the angels in heaven that / know-the
angels that have been there long time and
are now good at flying and those that
have just gone lately and have to hy with
one foot on a cloud till they get used 10
wings-when the first thing l knew there
| was with my head on Rowdy for pillow
and the sky was getting pale and 1 was
cold as pickle
went into the house and made fire In
tie kichen to warm up by and when ] was
" arm l went and milkcd the COW and the
nan who is a hundred years old was sleep
ing yet, so / ate bread and milk and gave
Iiowdy pan Of milk which he ate, though
| guess he wished milk had a bone in IT,
Then l took the hoe and made hole for
the dead dog and rolled 1t in "A blanket
and buried It. As Rowdy and ] were going
away through the hole in the vines an auto
came along and lady who was in 1t said,
Little girl, do you live here?" I said, YES
ma am, sometimes" She said, Gould you
get me a glass Of mill?' So ! did and she
drank 1t and gave me a quarter
The man who is a hundred years old had
got up when I went into the house, so |
gave the money 20 him. lie went into his
bedroom and shut the door and l saw him
put 1t through n crack In the floor for l
peeped at him through the keyhoe. He came
out looking as IL he thought he had done
something smart. and he said, II am a
hundred years old" I did not laugh, be-
cause you shouldn't laugh at any one who
hasn't IN NJ haln
When I got back to Mr.. Rockrudder's
told the burglar all about the hoboes and
what Rowdy did to them. He got pale and
said, Il wish you were my girl" I said II
should think you would for anybody would
| be lucky to have a girl like me" He said
you certainly do dislike yourself" 1 don't
know what made him think that, for I
don't
had not been in school very long today
when policeman came for me. The police
had arrested the hoboes on suspicion and the
burglar saw 1t in the paper and phoned the
rolice about what they did to the man who
is hundred years old. So the policeman
took me to the station to see IL l knew
Them and picked them out of a crowd and
Rowdy nearly picked them out too, bu, .
made him stop. They certainly were chewed
up. Tho police made me tell them who
lly father is, for have got to come again
when the hoboes are tried. Then all the
policemen remembered me. because had
helped TO catch the gnomes under the bank
BY the time they were through with me II
was too late for school, SO a DoIicen,an
rhoned for Levy and made him take me 10
J.ms and Maggie's. They have got a baby
cow which they have named Patsy Kildare.
and am going to teach It to do tricks n
can teach 1t to turn over endways | think
can start a show in our kitchen or some
where and make a lot of money. will
need 1t, for it is going TO cost io+ 70
take care of my burglar, for, of course, he
can't burgle any more.
Maggie sat on the floor with me like =
regular child, and we cut out paper dolIs
and then she and Jim and Rowdy and ;
prayed hide and seek around the house and
the barn and l nearly laughed my heal
on When / went to bed Rowdy and 7
prayed, Dear mother which art in heaven
ana God hollered be Thy name. If you
know anything about training a babv co.,
nope you Will help me. You. God, please
tless my father and my mother. Amen -
"A Happy Day" the next Patsy KiIdar.
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