Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-28
PATSY KILDARE
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
Farmland

AS SOON as | woke this morning began |
I1to think OF the enchanted palace and |
the three bears and the princess and the |
fairy and the witch and the magician and |
the woodcn-legger and how | had always |
wanted TO find an enchanted palace. ! Won
dered whether it was not dream after all.
So | grabbed some cold meat out of the
iCebCN and then Rowdy and 7 ramblcd.
Rowdy is certainly great comfort TO any
one who is leaving her own country and
going over TO the other side of the world
and does not know what she is going to- be
up against.
It was just getting light when went past
the house of the man who is a hundred
years old. | thought he and tine burglar
would be asleep, but that ! would put my
head through the door and holler just once.
When did the burglar opened the door
into the hall and said: Hello, Patsy. You
are out early. | am giving the old man his
morning bath and then will get breakfast
but there aren't any eggs for you" | told
him that | could not wait and that Rowdy
and | had had our breakfast. So we went
on and the sun was up good and plenty by
the time got TO the enchanted palace.
All the doors We're shut and ! thought
that if | knocked a bear might come out
ana Rowdy might have to eat him, so I
went around the house. On the sunny side
a window was open and the princess was
sitting in the window with her head down
| ana DtE beautiful ROluen mar ndlBlnE out
| for the prince to climb up by. SO | grabbed
her hair and started to climb but her nose
| bumped on the window and she screamed
| and then | let go. l heard noise and the
! wOoden-legger came around the corner and
stopped suddenly and said: well, we'll, 1t
| is the little girl who was here last night
| Dc you know thought had dreamed you,"
said, Il kind Of thought I had dreamed
| you, too
| The wooden-legger said. This is the prin-
| cess" / said 81 know it, l started to climb
| into the window by her hair to rescue her,
| but she was not ready for me and she
bumped her nose Then looked up at her
| and she was laughing and the wooden-legger
| said, why she doesn't want to be rescued.
Things do not look to her the way they
| look to you and me. This looks to you like
| a plain white house with green blinds but
| that is where the enchantment comes in. To
the princess il is a beautiful palace over
| flowing with love and happiness and in her
eyes her husband is the king" I said to
her, Does it?" She said, ut does" l
| think that is dandy.
| | asked the wooden-legger where the three
bears were and he said, Come with me-
So we went into the house and he showed
me what thought were three little kittens
but he explained that they were enchanted
too, and that in the nighttime they were
great big bears and went searching fpi
somebody t0 devour. He took me into The
kitchen and showed me fairy. She looked
to me like a fat old colored woman, but OF
course she was enchanted. The wooden
| logger says she does the most wonderful
things. Then the king came in and h,
looked just like it, If he would change hi.
clothes. He kissed the princess and asked
the wooden-legger where the magician was
He said he was II. and to prove it he pu
his pipe into his mouth and took it out o
his ear. 1t was wonderful Then he pu
an egg into his pocket and knocked on tn
top of my head and took the egg out o
my mouth right before my eyes. / was 81
surprised that forgot to shut my mouth.
Then told him had got to be going, 70
thought that was enough for one day. II
shock hands with me and hollered, "Ouch |!
and said, you have broken off two of m
! fingers" I looked and had. They wer