Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-06
PATSY KILDARE
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
A Business Transaction

T SLEPT fine last night having en-.
l. joyed yesterday SO much. guess
Thomas Aristides Browns father will
not monkey with us any more after
what he got. SO when I woke kissed
Rowdy and Rugged him for a while,
which pleased him very much. After
breakfast while was waiting for Levy
aud the auto, here came Thomas Aris-
tides Brown, without making us call
for him. which was very thoughtful of
Thomas, but of course being thoughtful
does not help his middle name any.
on the way to school I asked him
why he hollered his head OF for the
burglar not to hurt his father and he
got red and said he did not know, but
he felt more afraid the burglar would
hurt his father than he did that his
father would take him back home and
wallop him again and make holes all
over his back with buckles. said
that was funny and he said he thought
sO too. which shows that he has got
sense about some things. Then we got
TO school and before we went in heard
one of the girls tell lmogene's teacher
that Imogene has got the mumps, what
ever they are, so | guess | won't get q
chance TO land on lmogene right away.
NV tpatncf Stpl0eu me LOT Ipl keeping
my eyes on by book and | told her that
| did not need to, for ] had my lesson
better than any one else in the room
already She said she doubted It, but
would ask me a few questions and see
If | could answer them, and she did
and / could. SO she said | might be
excused from school until after recess.
Eowdy aud | rambled to Thomas
Aristides Browns mothers house
and the lady next door saw me coming
and said, Aren't youp the little girl
who ran away with Thomas" | said,
Yes, ma'am." She said You'd better
look out for Thomas's father. He has
got a bad name" said, what is his
namc?" She said. Thomas Brown"
| said, is that all Of it," She said.
YES" ! said: Gee! That is not
bad name Thomas AristidcS Browns
middle name is worse than all his, faith
cr's name" She laughed and said. 81
mean he is n bad man" | said, al
know it, but he Is not as bad as he was
yesterday before my burglar beat his
head off" Then I told her all about it
and she was very much pleased.
asked her If Thomas's father was
at home and she said he was not, so |
went in and called on Thomas's mother
who IS "A skinny woman with fat baby
and a scared-looking face She was very
glad to see me and asked mo how
Thomas was getting along | said
Zine" She said she was glad of it
and that she was not going to put up
with ThOmas's father much longer and
if he thought she was he was as much
mistaken as If he had burnt his shirt
She said she had stood enough to put
a dozen women in their graves and that
she would have left him ten years ago
r
| asked her wha: children and she said
Thomas and the baby But Thomas is
not more than eight years old and the
baby is a lot younger than that.
guess she did not know that | am doing
number work at school
After school was out ! took Thomas
over to Bell and Lunnys and traded
him off to Lunny for the iron dogs.
Lunny is going to send them to my
house tomorrow. He says they are out
of style anyhow. ! expect that when
he finds out Thomas Arstides Browns
middle name he will think he has been
cheated, but | do not think so. for
Thomas is Il good boy. | am glad to
get rid of him on account of his mid
die name. He did not like 1t because
| traded him off, hut | asked him II he
did not belong to me as much as Rowdy
does and he said he did. so | traded
him. He asked me why did not trade
Rowdy and keep him and ] told him
because Rowdy was worth more than
two iron dogs and that | would not
trade Rowdy for anything. Lunny and
Bell seemed very glad to get him and
laughed as if they had a good joke on
me. but | guess they will find the joke
is on them. | will bring his clothes
tomorrow. Maybe | ought to have got
more for Thomas Arlstides Brown, but
those iron dogs will look fine in the
middle Of our porch.
"Sp0llng Trade" the next Patsy Kill
h"re adN"n'mre, will appear in tom0rrow's 3