Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-22
PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
BY JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
Making a Purchase

AFTER Rowdy and had our breakfast
"A this morning we went and sat with my
burglar while the nurse got her breakfast.
He was lying looking at the wall and keep
ing his face shut. said, How are you feel
ing this morning." He said, Bad" l
thought that maybe he needed something
TO cheer him up, so / showed him how /
could turn over endways. AS | Gould see
that he was interested I walked on my
hands and that made him laugh, for just
as the nurse came in at the door ran into
her and my feet went onto the tray and
stirred up his breakfast so much that
Rowdy had to eat IT,
The nurse had to go back for more break
fast for my burglar. who Ia a pretty good
laugher His lips smile and his laugh stays
down In his neck and sounds very gurgly
and satisfactory. But he is getting so much
whiskers on his face that / saw | would
have to do something for them. | concluded
to go to town and get my washing and try
to get razor. So / made Levy take me
In the auto and I went and got all the
clothes in our house except the sheets my
father was sleeping and piled them into
the auto and away we went. The cook
washes every week, which think is silly.
I stopped at little store that had three
balls over the door and asked the young
man in the store If he had anything man
could shave with He said he had, and
sake why don't you shaver" He said, Don't
get fresh, kid. When kids get fresh around
here something happens to them" ! said
How much are the shaving things?" He
said, 81 have got good safety you Can
have II you can cough up bone" IF
can do what?" I said. "Gf you can cough
up a bone" he said. But for cats sake"
! said, how can any one cough up a
boue?' We'll" he said, IF you can't you
might as well roll your hoop" SO coughed
and then I coughed again and again. and
l got kind OF a tender throat, as If some
thing might be coming loose, but no bone
came up.
The man said What do you think you
are doing?" l said II am trying TO cough up
a bone" He said, II thought you we're one
Of them fresh kids and now II you do not
ny your kite l will paste you one on the
dome" had notion to let Rowdy eat
him up, but only said. Levy, come here"
So Levy climbed out of the car and came
in and said, What is 1t, Miss Patsy?" l
said "Blam this man on the nose for me
and bam him good Levy said, II will do
Il If you will pay my fne" Then the man
was not gay. He said, YOU'D better let
me alone. l only told the young lady that
the razor she wants would cost her dollar
and at once she gets fresh" l said, You
told me to cough up bone" He said,
That means the same thing" 1 said
Levy, lend me a dollar till we get home"
So he did
Levy said he would show me how to use
the razor but my burglar was asleep when
we got home and the doctor had been there
and said he was getting better, but he had
a worse breaking out of whiskers than ever
and did not want to wake him, SO we
could not shave him today.
When Rowdy and I got ready for bed
tonight we folded our paws and prayed:
Dear mother which art in heaven, II you
know anything about whiskers or about
razors you had better stand by my burglar
tomorrow. for something is going to come
off. Ask God to bless you and my father
and to kind of look after my burglar, for
I don't think our doctor is much good.
Amen"
"Ghost Story" the next Patsy kildare ad-
venture, appearS in Tuesdays Evening Ledger