The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-03-11

~OD Is certainly q whole lot buster
than thought He was I'LL my
father told me about the cricks
and the ocean and the clouds, and now
I am gladder than ever that have al
ways prayed to my mother instead OF to
Him and that | do not thank Him every
time | eat Anyone as busy as lie is
does not want to be bothered every few
minutes by someone thanking Him that
they have got tomato soup instead OF
pancakes or bananas instead of dill
pickles, and also asking a lot of things
Of Him every night. While He is hay
ing the sun drink up the ocean and
making the water into clouds and
showing the winds where to blow the
clouds to cover the land and making
them rain water into the cricks so they
can hurry it along to fill up the ocean
again how would He like to have lit
tie girl like me butt in and take His
mind off OF all that machinery and ask
him to make the fleas leave Rowdy
alone, don't do it; | Just tell my moth
er what | want and then sometimes
when God has got done with his days
work and is taking il easy and it won't
bother him any to hear from me, my
mothers angel can tell him about me
and what ! would like to have Him do
When | woke up this morning lay
and thought about all that machinery
that God has to tend to and keep run
ming all the time and OF how good lie
always is and never grouchy and |
made up my mind that ! am going to be
all right when | get to heaven for God
must be a whole lot like my own true
daddy, and il He is | know 1t is going
10 be all right about Rowdy, too, iot
even il il is against the rules OF HEAVIER
to let dog in He will change the rule.
like they did out at school, or lie vii
let me go in the back way with Rowd'
and as long as Rowdy's angel doesn't fl
around out in front of heaven it will b.
all right with Him. and soon as | be
gan thinking about Rowdy he knew
was thinking about him and he bega
to wag his tail or as much tail as a
Airedale has, so then | had got every
thing settled for Rowdy and me and
bopped out of bed and washed up an
found a clean ribbon and put on m
hair. Ny shoes felt kinda swlzzely yc
from wading in the crlck yesterday bu
my clothes and stockings were dry an
made the coffee and flopped the pan
cakes like | saw a cowboy do in pic
ture show one time and when my ow
true daddy came in everything was al
ready and he said that the breakias
looked nice and that looked nice an
he patted Rowdy on the head, and
talked to him till it was time for hlr
to 90 TO bed and for me to go 10 schoo
and he is going to make a garden an
plant a lot Of things TO eat and he /
going to let me help him.
T HAD talked to my own true dadd
i so long that | did not get to schoc
very early and when got near ther
the sidewalks were full of kids an
some of the boys had their dogs alon
but none of the girls but me has got
dog and none of the boys are allowed I
take their dogs in school like ] d
Rowdy and guess they do not like tha
very well, but none of their dogs &,
fresh with Rowdy because they kno,
him too well he does not want to pla
with them because he has got me I
play with and when he fights wit
SAem they get the worst of it.
When the bell had rung and we ha
IN got in our seats and had sung III
norning song | thought OF Somethin