Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-01
PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
Coming GIOru


I WENT out to Bells house after hraak
- last this morning and climbed the tree
oy her window and sang as loud as could
all about going to heaven in a balloon TO
see my mother. Bell opened the window
shutters and said. Fine, Patsy! You are
a little savage with the soul of a mocking-
bird. l said, II have come to tell YOU that
am not going TO call for you TO go swim
ming any more" She said why noty' /
said. For cats sake. because half the time
you don't go and then my time Is wasted
Tor l could be out there swimming" She
said, Patsy, you are right That was an
inconvenlent plan. and would have broken
II up myself IL had only had the courage
Just did not dare come right out and tell
you" said. You did not need TO come
out and tell me. You could have told me
out of the window. When have got any
thing to say 10 any one, believe me, I say
It, She said, II know you do. I wish /
could be as brave and as truthful and
straightforward as you" said, II suppose
there Is no use Of your trying, for you are
not Irish"
Bell laughed and asked me to stay TO
breakfast but l told her / had had mine
Then she asked me to come in while she fed
her face and Lunny fed his SO ] did Then
she said. Il want to ass you to do son1e-
| thing for me next Friday night viii you
do it?" said. Il will do anything for YOU
but lie or steal" You would have thought
that was a joke to have heard Lunny laugh.
Bell said. 1T is nothing like that Where
did you learn that dance you did here for
my friends the other nght?" | said. "I
learned that under the Iecktric light at the
corner OF my house. why?" She said
! Gould you do that on a stage with a lot Of
people looking at you?" 1 said, II do IL
when God Is looking at me, so why can't
| do It with a lot of rubbernecks lookinV?"
She said, "of course, YOU can. Will you
do ii on the stage at the theatre on Friday
night to help make money for a Christmas
tree for poor children" l said, Ger
tainly."
Then Rowdy and l went to school, getting
there just as the bell rang as do not like
TO do. for there is no telling what will hap
pen II you get there earlier while the yard
| is full OF kids that do not like you and will
not play with you. You can almost always
start something. / went TO my seat and
did my lessons, but could hardly do them
FOR thinking of going on the stage, the same
stage where / saw the lady with the long
STOCKINGS who taught me to turn over end
ways. wondered what the people would
| call me. June told me the lady who turned
over endways was called an actressbat but
| guess | will only be an actress which is
good enough for a start. so, after school
went and told Jim and Maggie that I was
going on the stage Friday night and they
We're surprised, and then went to tell
"HhN' anu June was surprised, and then /
told Old Maid Tompkins, and she said. 81
am horrifed. You need a good spanking
should think your mother would turn over
in her grave" l said, For cats sake, what
is hurting you?" She said, ut ruins peoples
regulations to go on the stage All stage
people are wicked" I said, "You are crazy
in the head and you talk too much with
your face. Nobody has to be bad because
she is on the stage. can be a good little
girl wherever / am. People don't have to
be silly because they're old maids. do they?.
She just tossed her head and did not ask
ME to have piece Of mince pie though
thu re was some on the table
So we went looking at store windows and
| tried to pick out all the playthings poor
Kinds would get because OF me. Then
liOwdy and went home and ate everything
my father had not and kneeled down and
prayed, Dear God which art in heaven
hollered be Thy name. I an praying TO
you tonight because it is more important
than usual l am going to be on the stage
to help buy presents for poor kids 1t will
be Friday night and You and my mother
better stick around. I expect am the best
dancer that has ever been on that stage
At that Rowdy got up and went over and
lay down in the corner, but / made him
Rowdy. and l should always say what is
true even IL it does sound like am stuck on
myself" So he folded his paws again and /
prayed my prayer out and said, Amen"
The Shape of the Earth" another Patsy
Kildare adventure viii appear in tOmorroW's
Evening Ledger.