Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-04
Patsy Kildare, Outlaw
BY JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
Frank Opinions

! Tn SCHOOL today we had n little trouble
| i oil about nothing. The best little girl IN
| school was asked to come up on the plat
| form and speak piece. which che did'
| Rowdy going along. This is what ] spoke
Peanuts Feeney, rick stick steeney. hioo,
reebo, buck tooth Feeney."
II made a great hit with everybody but
Peanuts and Miss Groarty. She raped on
her desk for the kids TO stop laughing.
which II took them long time to do. Then
she took me out into the han and Rowdy
also and she asked me what thought she
ought to do with me. / said I thought she
ought to let me say my lessons and then
take Rowdy and go. Then she asked me
if did not think | should be punished. !
said, For cats sake what for?' She said
For holding Patrick Feeney up to rddy-
cool" | said, 81 never touched him. Any
how, II | did anything TO Peanuts, what
Kick have you got? IL am to be punished.
why don't you let him do it?" She said,
That's a good idea
Then she opened the door and called Pea
nuts and he came out looking scared, for he
gets scared as easy as anything. The
teacher said, 81 have called you out here
because Patsy insulted you and l want you
to tell me what shall be done with herr
He looked at me and stood smiling at him
with my feet far apart and trying to put
into my eyes what would do to him II he
ever tried to get funny with me. Then he
SO the teacher said. VERY WELL you may
both return to your seats" SO we all went
back, with Rowdy wagging his tail and with
me feeling like It,
After school was out we rambled and
went to see Jim. on the way | saw that
the hole by the side of the road that old
Maid Tompkins dug for the 81 was bigger
than any of the other holes that people had
dug. Jim said 10 me, How Is Miss Groar
t''' / said, what's 1t to your" He said.
Nothing, only she Is nice girl" / said,
Girl! Why, she is old woman" He
aid, "She seems like it to you, but to me,
who am older. she is just a girl think
she is very nice" / said, "Yes. very. She
is as nice as q bump on your bean. She
is always calling me down for something"
He said he guessed she had to call me down
in order to hold her job Then / learned
for the first time that the teachers are paid
money for teaching us kids Jim said that
my father and he and everybody who owned
property helped pay them. / asked him If
my father helped pay the principal. and
he said he did. Then l knew his brains
didn't track, for my father never even saw
the principal, but l wish my father had
hired her, for 1 believe would get him TO
fire her because she Is always telling me not
to climb the poplar.
After | got home took n look at the
pistol and it had not moved. Rowdy is
the braVest dog that ever was. for he went
right over and looked at II and smeled IT,
and then looked at me surprised when
told him TO back UP. Then ! poked the
pistol kind of easy with my mother UNI
brella and IT turned around and pointed
straight at me, and / went downstairs at
once, but did not hurt myself very badly
Before We kneeled and folded our hands
and paws. ] put a chair against the stair
door and then we felt better. So l prayed
Dear mother which art In heaven, coming
home tonight ] saw Mrs. Carpenter sitting
out on her porch and l went and sat down
by her on the step and she looked at me
for long time and said. 'Well?" | said.
Il see you did not go to heaven" She
said, NO. and i suppose you are sorry?"
l said, Il don't want you to go there ever,
and you won't as long as God is running It.
Tor l nave put him on to you" Then she
acted crazy and | came home [ hate to
think you had anything to do with putting
that pistol upstairs, for there ought to be
easier ways than that to get me, but. of
course, If you want to shoot me- go ahead
Thy Will, not mine, be done, as the minister
tcld God at your funeral. which was easy
enough for him. for he was not losing any.
thing like ] was. Ask God to bless YOU and
my father double this time, for l forgot IL
last night. Amen"
"Rowdy to the Rescue" the neyt Patsy XII
T nHre adyenture, appears in tonorrow's Eve