Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-23

PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
Ghost Story

AFTER I woke this morning I lay still
a awhile. but as soon as | remembered
that I had to do a big days work cutting
whskers hopped out Of bed The cook
was washing so Rowdy and had to poach
some eggs for our breakfast. for the cook
says she will get meals for nobody on wash
day. Even the nurse had TO get breakfast
Tor herself and my burglar. After break
fast went and found Levy and told him to
get busy and show me how to use the
safety. He showed me how to make lather
and how to use the safety on whiskers and
then he wiped II dry and put It into the
box and gave 1t to me and some soap and a
brush.
Just as Rowdy and | were going up to
the burglars room we met the nurse and
she said, ''I was looking for you" Well"
said, you have found me-" Yes" she said
Il wanted TO ask you to sit with my patient
while | take n walk II Is such beautiful
morning" I said Il do not know any one
who needs a walk more than you do so go
to It and / will go upstairs He may be
your patient, but he is my burglar" So she
went outdoors and I went up to the bur
glars room and said. How do you find
yourself this morning." He said. "Not very
we'll" I said, you should be glad you are
living, I am going to shave your whskers
! of" "Still YOU think 7 should be glad I an
living?" he said,
BN tnat time I was hNSN with the bTOSl
and the soap Making lather is fun, and
lathered him good and plenty till every time
he breathed he blew bubbles Then ! started
in to shave him the way Jim hoes his gar.
den, but l did not get any whskers All I
got was the lather. After a while my bur
glar said, How are you getting on?' ! said,
Fine, only Your whskers are fastened on
! too tight. | think I need more lather' He
| said. Let me see your razor" After he
! looked at 1t ne said. 1T probably would
| work better with a blade in it." That was
! the trouble, for | had not put in a blade.
| After he showed me how to put in n blade
| tried again and the razor worked fine.
! though his whiskers so tough that they
| seemed 10 pull a lot. At last I got him
! shaved and he looked cleaner and kind Of
| red
| put the razor away in my room and
/ felt so good that when the nurse came I
/ slid down the baniSter backward Sliding
| would be great fun If II was not for the
! post at the bottom Of the stairs. which
! stopped me so sudden that II made my teeth
! snap together and my eyes pop out. Just
/ then the foam rang and il was Mr.. Rock
rudder He said. "How are things today
| and how is your burglar" I said, Pretty
! good. How are you and AliCe2' He said.
Fine DO they do everything YOU want"
! said, IF they did not they would not he
| here" He said Bully" ! said, "You
! have got good banister on the stairs
| here, but the post at the bottom stops me
! too sudden and If | cannoy do anything
| about that I viii have to stop coming down
| that way" He said Tell Levy to come
| to the foam and I will give him directions"
! Levy came and talked to Mr., Rockrudder
| and then went to town and came back with
! two carpenters and saws and things, and
they worked on the banister all day and
! now I can slide down fine as soon as the
! paint is dry, but not before, for tried and
| | am ali varuish from one end to the other.
Rowdy and ! went over to the sha TX
where the cnlored men ana women live, who
were scared at my slim sally. The mans
| name Is George Washington. They told me
| that they had seen a ghost, which had
chased them away from home but that It
| would never come back. for they had seen
| conjure doctor, who had given them a
| conjure bag, which they had buried under
=, the doorstep. I said, For cats sake, you
| do not believe in that. do you?' The woman
| said NO. indeed, we don't" I said Then
what do you use the conjure bag for If you
! do not believe in it, She said, Because
! 1t works whether you believe in II or not .
| So Rowdy and l sat and talked with them
| for quite a while. They said the ghost was
! taller than any house and had fiery eyes
and arms a mile long and that it few like
a bird and chased them about twenty miles.
"HeIping Rowdy," the next Patsy Kildare
| adventure, appears In Wednesdays Evening
| Ledger,