Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-24
PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
BY JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
First Aid

THIS morning / made the coffee and
l. stirred the pancakes and got outside all
the milk except what / gave to Rowdy.
Then 7 was on my way before my father
came home from his night watching, for
had to call for Bell to take her swimming
climbed UP the tree outside her window
and holIered my head OF in a song which |
made ND as | went along. II was about its
being Monday morning and the river rum
ming and school going to open and the
leaves that were blowing in the wind
Pretty soon she opened the window and
said Hello >" Then she came out aud away
we went holding hands and running when
we Not on the country road. We had
fine time swimming and | got back in time
for school.
All the kids were there and Imogene
would not speak to me- but | should worry
! could see a dark streak down her neck
where her mother could not get the ink off
and that made me feel happy. Rowdy and
| went around the schoolyard and the little
foreign girl was sitting on the walk eating
a banana that her mother had given her
and she offered me the rotten end OF IT,
said no, | thank you" Then there was
fight over Ia the boys corner and we went
10 see H. There was Wilbur fighting with
a bigger boy and Wilbur was getting what
was coming to him.
When the big boy punched Wilbur an
other one ! thought of Wilbur's father, who
is probably I'm Heaven and how bad he must
feel to see his little boy getting licked, So
I changed my mind about the rotten end
of the banana and took it and pasted the
big boy in the face with it. Before he could
get 1t out OF his eyes Wilbur was in the
schoolhouse. If he had not told the prln-
cipal IL would have been all right but when
the big boy was getting his for punching
ha p1 hp pPi bat I
had pasted him with a banana. SO | was
nulled i'm and asked why did II, / told the
principal and she said il was all right this
time but not to let it happen again, which
it probably won't, for it has never happened
that way before Whatever happens to me
is always something else.
Then Miss Willie my teacher called me
TO her desk and said, Where did you say
YOU lived Patsy?" ! said, 81 didn't say
where lived" But I told her and when the
long recess came, away she went with the
plume on her hat waving. SO when school
was out Rowdy and L 1smbled home to see
what had happened. When I asked my
father he just laughed and said. 81 will
have to lock the door after this so that no
more OF your lady friends will blow in She
said you are a remarkable little girl" !
said, That's right, for | am" Then he
said. she told me that il was a shame to
bring you up without woman's care and
that / ought to find some one who could be
a mother to the child. So I asked her II
she knew any one who would take a job
like that and she said she guessed Patsy
had friends who loved her enough to UNDER
take the task which would be a labor Of
love"
What do you know about thst2
have made up my mind that II my
father ever marries he has got to marry
some one with some kids and then II they
don't play with me and do play with any
one l tell them not to play with / will
push their faces In, / hope ! am Irish
enough for that.
The New Club" another Patsy Kildare ad-
venture. appears In tOmOrToW's Evening Led
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