Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-08
PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
Treasure TrOUe


| CoMETHING has got to be done about
~ my burglar. Since he found Rowdy and
me under the house of the man who is
hundred years old he wants to watch me
all the time. He gets mad II 1 don't take
his advice. / will have to get rid of him
the first thing he knows. He must not
think he is my boss Just because Rowdy
and busted his leg-nothing like it,
Levy took Rowdy and me to school early
this morning, and climbed up In the tree
and sang a song all about the man who Is
hundred years old and the burglar and
the world looked so good that might have
been up there yet-thats a joke-if lmo-
gene had not come along and said some
thing. 1 climbed down TO hear what 1t
was she said and 1t was nothing much
She had only said to another girl that
was crazy. ] was just getting ready TO
make her say wasn't crazy and that her
whole family was crazy when my teacher
came along and asked what was the mat
ter. I told her nothing was the matter
but Imogene said that / had been up in
the tree singing and that 1 must be crazy
The teacher said she wished more of her
would get their lessons better. 1 said
Isn't that the TRUTH"
So I didn't do a thing TO Imogene' and
she went in, and then the boy whose green
snake 1 lost came running and he ran
around the schoolhouse till the bell rang
When we were going in l asked him what
he was running his legs off for and he said
more, and after school was out he started
running again. Rowdy and ] ran and
kept up with him, and I asked him again
what he was running for. He said, II am
in training TO lick the big boy who punched
me In the nose the other day" I said,
For cats sake are you going TO run
away from him? He said, mo; why?'
| said, You are giving your legs a lot of
training Tor any one who Is going to
stand and fight" He stood minute and
said, That's So" Then he walked away
looking very thoughtful.
When Levy took me back to Mr.. Rock
rudders l saw lard bucket In the kitchen
which was not working. and so l took 1t
and went away without my burglar seeing
me. l do not mind being watched by God
and my mother. but 1t is certainly none of
the burglars business to watch me. I
went to the house of the man who is a
hundred years old. When he saw me he
did not open his face at first. Finally he
said, II am a hundred years old" 1 said,
1T is lucky for you that you are for II
Then I told Rowdy to watch him and 1
went under the house to get the money.
The lard bucket was nearly full when I
had got it all picked up I dug a hole for
the fresh money to fall into when he
dropped It and then I crawled out and put
the bucket IN among the vines until had
millSed the COW and given the old man
all the milk he wanted. After that I took
the bucket and went to Mr. Rockrudder's
and put the bucket under my bed Then
went over to see George Washington
and Mrs Washington, the old colored peo-
pie. who were scared at my Slim Sally. 1
asked them If they had seen any ghosts
lately George said they hadn't, for there
was a conjure bag under the step and he
had a rabbits foot and no ghost could
come near them.
Just to show them, I went back and
made slim sally and got the burglars
! 'lectric light and went to call on them. I
sneaked in through the kitchen, and when
they saw me. before / could tell them it
fence and down the road, and that is some
| jump for a fat woman. So l went home
and tonight l prayed, Dear mother which
art in heaven, If you and God know any
| thing that is good for burglars TO do who
| are not going to burgle any more, I wish
| you would make me think of it, for have
| got a burglar on my hands. Ask God to
| bless you and my father and the burglar
and Rowdy and me. Amen"
"a Job for the Burglar" the next Patsy
| Kildare adventure appears IN tOmOrrOw's Eve
| ming Ledger.