Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-13
PATSY KILDARE
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
NeighbOrIu Remarks

VETHEN my father came nome from his
w night watching this morning I had
made coffee and was Hopping pancakes,
lie was pleased and that pleased Rowdy
and me. and sat on his lap and Rowdy
tried to, but my father would not let
him. Rowdy wagged his tail just the
same. for that Is one good thing about
Rowdy; it does not hurt his feelings or
make him mad. no matter what you
do he is your friend just the same.
After my father went to bed Rowdy
and | rambled When we were going
past the Carpenters we saw Mrs. Car
penter sitting on the porch eating pea
nuts out of bag. | stopped and said
to her. Srhey look like good peanuts"
So she gave me a little one and that
made me mad and l made up song
and sung 1t to her. This Is the song
Mrs. Carpenter was sitting on the fence
trying to make dollar out of fifteen
cents She is SO stingy that the song
kind of get her goat and she said. You
are an ungrateful little savage and |
should think your mother would turn
~over In her grave You need II good
spanking" l put out my tongue at her
and went away.
The woman across the street was out
in front of her house wheeling her baby
ard she said to me, "W!ll you wheel my
baby up and down while | run over to
the store to get something for break
fast?' | said For cats sake, ! cannot
wheel il up and down, but | will wheel
1t back and forth for you" She said
DO not get saucy." ] said. II won't.
She looked at lie and ther she gave me
the handle of the buggy and went across
the street. | took a look at the baby
and then when she came back | said,
II see you have made trade" She
said. What do you mean | said, II
mean that you have got different
baby,. She screamed and made jumr
| for the baby and then she said, why
| did you frighten me sO?" / said, well
this Is not the baby you used to have
| The other baby was "a little red-faced
monkey and this baby is pretty" She
said, This Is the same baby" ant
seemed pleased. certainly was sur
prised. for the baby is fat and white aut
has creascs ON its wrist and it laughed
and made a roise at me. and | believe
| | am going to like 4. The baby's mother
said she would let me hold it some time
but she can't fool me; this is not the
same baby as the one that was red and
squaly.
Then Rowdy and went to Old MaiC
| lOllphltS ana Sllt klSStu me AM
seemed glad to see me, She asked IN,
If | was going back ON her and | tolt
her that | would never go back on her
for I did not care how many wrinkle!
she had as She is my friend. She looked
| mad and did not give me any pie ant
did not give Rowdy a bone, but sh,
asked me to come again If ] felt like II
Though she was kind of chilly | vii
probably 20 and see her again From
her house Rowdy and | went am
watched the men cutting down trees AM
INigging the hole. one of the men WA
in the very place where a tree was gOinj
to fall and the boss hollered, Get out o
the way there. you yellow scarecrow !!
The man, who had rings in his cars
Just smiled and stepped out Of the wa,
SO the tree could come down, which /
did at once, and the boss said to him
That's right, laugh. you egg = headed
gorilla turned wrong side out. IT yol
had lot more sense you would be hal
witted." The man smiled again am
went to work. He is like Rowdy, for h
does not get mad easily, only he has II
tail to waE. Rowdy would not need
tail If he could smile like the man wit
rings in his ears.
After school Rowdy and | went to sc