The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-03-29
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I EXPECT those three kids are per-
iectly good kids to play with, but
they don't 60 TO school and are
not educated or something. Me and
Rowdy have always wanted someone 10
play with but | do not think | will
play on their mud lot or sit on their
fence any more. would kinda like
TO know what the boy did to her or
what she did to him when he caught
her, but haven't time to go way out
there to find out. ! would like to have
him chase me ill ! got him out of sight
Of his father ! bet he would 90 home
with a bump on his bean.
My fathers lettuce was a little bigger
this morning and maybe it is lettuce
after all 1t is mighty sard for any
thing that grows to focJ my father
When he came home this morning and
stood looking at me through the scream
while | was Hopping pancakes, he said,
just as one was going up, Watch out,
YOU are going 10 miss that one" and
sure enough did, and he laughed and
laughed and Rowdy ate the pancake
that flopped on the floor and wagged
his tail, and then my father asked me
how the boarding house up the street
was getting along and | said | didn't
know, and he said he was surprised, be-
cause I told him | was going to be an
old maid and If | was going 10 be an
old maid would have to get in prac-
tice by beginning to learn all that was
going on in the ncighborhood, but |
told him ! was not going to be that
kind of an old maid piled the break
fast dishes in the sink without wash
ing them and went right up the street
with Rowdy and we sat on the horse
block out in front OF Pie Faces
mothers and watched the sign on the
house and after awhil, she came out
10 20 to the store for something and
she saw us and said, What are YOU
gawping att" | said Il am watching
for the boarders to begin to come,
: thank YOU" She Just said, "Iluh," and
went on and when she came back
said, There didn't any come while you
were away, Mrs Carpenter" but you
don't even get smile for trying to
help some people. Me and Rowdy
stayed there till it was time for school,
because Pie Face came out and start
ed, and not a boarder came near there.
TEAM came TO me at recess and said
j the baby was getting along fine,
and had been thinking so much about
boarders that had forgotten the baby
but | didn't tell her so, but when she
asked me what | would take for my
share in it told her If she didn't keep
away from it | would bust her wide
open. and then she said she didn't
mean any harm, but she thought she
might as well have it, so then | walked
half way home with her after school
and told her she could take my place
with the baby any time | wasn't there
and she felt all right again, and me
and Rowdy started to go around to see
the baby, but we remembered that we
had not been down where the trains
come in for quite a while, so we~went
down there and train had got in be
fore me and Rowdy got there and the
kissing was all over with and we were
sorry about that for il is a heap OF fun
and then saw a young man and wom-
an talking to the woman that is always
at the station and me and Rowdy went
over there and the young woman was
saying, 81 wonder if you cannot tell
us where we can find. reasonable
priced boarding house in a quiet neigh
borh6od1" Before the station woman
could tell her, said, There is one
fight on our street, shall | show you
wherel" The station woman is my
friend and she Just smiled when ] but
ted in, and said, Maybe she will know
OF Just the place YOU want" So the
man picked up a big satchel and the
woman took little one and they fol-