Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-29

PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS

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T GOT auntie. Mr.. Rockrudders cook, TO
4 fix up a lunch this morning when I had
eaten breakfast and then 7 went in and
talked 70 the burglar while the nurse ate
and Levy got the auto ready / asked the
burglar, TFor cats sake, aren't you ever
going to get well? Does the doctor keep
the weight tied to your foot al! the time
Is your father dead, as well as your mother?
Didn't you ever go to school? Did you love
your teacher and did the other kids play
with you? Aren't you sorry you are bur-
glar7
He Just grlnned and said Yes" 70 every
thing. he made me tired. Then Levy
honled and I went down the banister and
Rowdy and hoped into the back seat OF
the auto and went away from there. When
we got to school we sat on the walk till the
bell rang and none OF the kids would play
with us. At recess one of the teachers said
that I was to be i'm her room after the
Christmas vacation because Miss Willie
Danglar had told her that ! was going TO
pass She Is a nice looking teacher, and she
said she had heard about me from the prin-
cipal and that she would be very glad to
have me In her room I guess It does help
to have some one around who Is Irish
The teacher patted Rowdy, which made
me like her all the more. So ! said to her {:
MAY I come to your room and speak to
you all alone?" She said Certainly,
Patsy. What Il It? Have some Of the chill
dren been imposing on you?" l said: "No.
nobody imposes on the Irish. You're n
friend Of mine and want to do you good
turn" she said: You sweet thing, what is
II ," 7 said: 1T is that stuff you pulled on
the kids in your room one day about the
world being round Nobody with any sense
heard you say il except me, but the prin-
cipal might have heard you, so now you go
ahead and teach the kids that the world Is
fat, just as Il you had never said any
thing else, and ] promise not to give you
away" The teacher laughed and said: II
am going to tell you something that Is
very hard for a little girl to understand"
Not # she is Irish" said. Go to it."
Well" said the teacher, the world Is
really round" I said Gee You are the
second crazy girl l have known. Anybody
can see that the world is fat Walt, she
said Then she got a big book and showed
me a pitcher of the world and the pitcher
proved that the world is round. just as the
teacher said was certainly surprised
but. Of course, after she showed me the
pitcher | knew she was right, because they
could not take the pitcher of the world and
make It round if it was not. When thing
Is in a book it is always 50.
The pitcher Of the world made me think
| went to our house to see If there was any
| dust on it, because Jim had told me that
! when dust began to gather on my mothers
pitcher Il would be the sign that my father
| was going to be married again. My moth
| ers pitcher was not there When | couldn't
! find It I wanted to go out and crawl under
| the house. | felt so badly. My heart was
| all swelled up and such lump came in my
| throat that ! almost choked. | could moi
| think who would steal my mothers pitcher
| and I did not know which way to turn o
what TO do. l ran back TO the school, wher,
Levy was waiting to take me to Mr.. Rock
| rudder's, and l told him to go as fast a
| he could
When we got there ] ran TO my father
room and said Somebody has stolen m
mothers pitcher off the wall at our hous
and you must come back to the city with IN
and call out the petroleum wagon and cate
whoever did it." My father said: why
Patsy. I have got It here in my room.
brought il here myself. l could not sleep 4
this house II it was not with me-" Then
certainly did hug my mothers pitcher an
| my father hugged me and the nurse snffe
and said nothing when | told her about 4
and there was not a bit of dust tn
pitcher So tonight | am very happy lii
tie girl
THE Gift" the next Patsy Kildare adventur,
appears in Tuesdays Evening Ledger.