Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-27
PATSY KILDARE
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
The Lame Lea

rTHIS morning | got up kind Of early
L and helped Maggie set the table for
Jim, and 1 also Topped the pancakes for
him when he came in from his milk
route and they both love 10 watch me
flop pancakes. jim says I am re-
markablo child, and Maggie says 80,
too, and am.
After breakfast Rowdy and | rambled
and went to June's, and June's father
was there. and he said 10 me, young
lady between you and the doctor this
house is turned into u hospital J SAID
That's so. II It had not been for us
you would have missed all the fun, and
then what would you have done?' He
said zone of the things would have
been to sleep better night before last
said, 80 would l. But we can sleep
any time. and we do not get a chance
10 stralghten game leg every day"
Then ! went upstairs and June was
sitting in the room with draggy foot.
said to draggy foot, How do you
feel this morning. She said. MY leg
aches something fierce" said, Cheer
up and be n sport. You ought to be glad
that both legs don't ache" She said,
We'll, I'm not. You and the doctor
md Miss June had no business 10
We'll what do YOU know about that
she said Il want you to take this thing
of my leg and let me go the way i
was My leg may have looked funny
/ but It did not ache. / would rather
| II looked funny than stay in bed all my
! life" ! said. rs that all you have got
TO say" She said, mo, / could say 4
! lot more" said. Go ahead and say
1t and get 1t out OF your system" Then
] I ..,,tI a..
/ and kick all the time | would unop-
crate her leg and put her back in the
| orphan asylum"
After that told them about the race,
and June said. Were you that little
Eirl?' l said What little girl?" June
I said, The little girl who ran the whole
way" | said. Yes" She said she
read about it in the paper. but She did
not know it was !, though she ought
to have known II, because the paper
said the little girl had u dog. Then
she said | was very wonderful child
and | hope my mother was hanging
around and heard her say Il, for moth
ers like to hear things like that about
their children, especially when they are
true. Then June told draggy foot
what I had done and that maybe If the
operation came out all right he could
do something like that some time
IbfaggE loot KIND OF liked that. but still
she scOvlcd and said she was going
TO get up. l took June outside and
told her she ought not to iced draggy
foot so much because It made her toe
uppety, and Juno laughed and said she
cues ed not.
Then right up to the door came a her
and bunch Of little chickens. ! hat
never seen anything like it before. The,
were certainly nice to look at, l asked
June If L could have one, and she sale
Yes" So ! took one, and Rowdy ant
| rambled with il and it peepcd 70 u
all the way home. / held it between ny
hands, and when l got il home il erie,
so ! thought It was hungry. 5, ! CAV,
IL a saucer Of milk. but il was cow
milk, and, Of course, nothing like hem
milk. Every time after it stuck It
, bill into the cows milk IL would pu
its bill into the air and look for IT
mother to get some hens milk $
D Rowdy and | took il home again an,
It was dark then. but / put il under
reath it's mother with the others, an
l bet it filled its little stummick righ
e away. Then we went back home.
q II IS certainly good to be in my ow
4 house again. Home is the best pIaC
n for little girl, but I am getting kin
of hOmesiCt for Barney and Mary, an
the burglar and the man who Is a hur
a dred years old, and Mr.. Rockrudde
and Alice. but l can go and sec OF
Maid Tompkins, and guess l will
the morning.