The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
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THIS was Thursday morning when
/ | woke up and was awake 80
early that I heard Jim come up
on the porch when he left the milk.
and Rowdy bafked and | heard Jim
cay Hello Rowdy," because Jim and
Rowdy are good friend, Just like Jim
and me and Rowdy fambled and went
an me and Rowdy rsmbled and went
out to Jim's house, and Macy had
just GOT up and she had breakfast
ready for all Of us when jim got there
and l told Jim l had heard him and he
was glad, Tor he said every time he
comes up on our porch he thinks Of me
and wonders how | I'm getting along.
He says he Is scared about me when
he thinks about me being alone In the
house nights because might get sick
or something and then ! could not do
anything and l might die there all
alone, and Magsie said that was so,
and she wondered what was going to
do when ] cot to be q young lady, and
she said ] had better come there and
board with them and then my father
would know that | was always all
right, but ! told her she had q crack
In her bean guess ! am not going
10 leave my own true daddy. Who
would keep house for himi
Jim said | might think was keeping
house, but I was like he was before
he married Maggie he did not know
what housekeeping meant So then |
told them goodby and me and Rowdy
went over to the ,hipbosrd but the
river looked too cold to 90 in swim
ming In. and when ! jumped of the
springboard into Il l found out the,
Il was rs cold as Il looked and ] did
not stay in Il more than hall an hour
and come out and Trung out my suit
and dressed and went TO school, and
even u the river was cold II felt fine
after ] got out of ii and was running
to school
A T recess the pupils, as the teacher
~ calls them, played pom pom pull
away and II was lot OF fun,
but | did not play very much. ran
back and forth q lew times but no one
tried to catch me, maybe they saw that
| was such good dodger that It
would not be any use to try, but maybe
they were Just NUTS and did not want
me TO play; Il don't make any diff
ference how much candy you give to
some Rids they will be NUTS just the
me, bet IL anyone gave me a piece
OF candy would smile at them or play
with them or blam them or something
When school was out me and Rowdy
rambled and there Is not much fun
rambling in the country 30 we rambled
around the city. The country Is all
right in III, summer when there ar,
flowers and wasps and things and the
river is warm and maybe some boys
are In swimming and you can sit on
the bank and make them stay In
good while but there is not anything
doing ia the winter. There Is almost
always something doing in th city
we saw an auto bump into wsgon
and knock a box Of oranges off from
n and some boys grabbed some Of the
oranges and ran away and a policeman
'rtested III, automobile man and the
orange man for fighting and I stood
close enough TO touch them I'm the
petroleum wagon came for them, and
then me and Rowdy ran after the
petroleum wagon for quite ways be.
tore i got to going too fast for us
and then we went in Ii, part OF the
city where saloon, are aud we saw
man get thrown out Of the same saloon