The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-03-22
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N7sser.zloe Judd Mortimer Lewis
Judd Mortimer Lewis


TOMORROW is Saturday and me
and Rowdy don't know where we
will go and | don't even know
where he would like to 90. ] could 20
TO Alice'S or the wooden legger's or the
burglars or lots of places, but there arc
lots Of places in the world that | have
never been yet and me and Rowdy
might 20 TO one Of them. The people
in the house on the hill across the river
have not got bed where ! could sleep
OF me and Rowdy might go there and
stay all night some Friday night and
stay all day Saturday They never
knew that was coming to see them or
they would have had bed | bet.
My father says he is going TO have
the best garden in the city and he is
going TO have someone show me how
TO cook peas and beans and tomatoes
and potatoes and a lot Of other things
and | should think that would be a
mess When we had had breakfast and
| had washed the dishes and me and
Rowdy rambled my own true daddy was
watering the garden with the hose, and
me and Rowdy went around TO Nellie
Turner's house and Mrs, Turner saw
who il was when me and Rowdy went
to the door and she told me to run
along about my business, she said she
had sent Nellie to the store for some
things and Nellie had spent a nickel
without asking her and she said that
Nellie had been playing with the wrong
kind Of little children or she would
rever have been dishonest. And that is
how | know that il is dishonest &c
spend your mothers money, but | guess
it isn't when you spend your fathers
money for | have spent lots of mine anC
he never said a word, and Just 60 Il
his pants pocket and get il and whcr
me and Rowdy got to the corner we sa
down on the little bridge across tht
gutter and tried to think it over bu
here came Nellie and she was cryinl
and | told her not to cry and the NOR
| told her not to the more she cried
and then told her that | used /
think she was a mutt but that it mus
be her mother that is the mutt, and tha
il her mother thought | had spoile
Nellie she was a mutt sure enough
pUT Nellie kept right on crying s
} - then me and Rowdy went bac
for | had thought Of something and
- went in and told Mrs Turner that ST
o might have one OF the nickels I ha
1 brought to buy soup for me and Rowd
= and told her a mother like h,
e oughtn't to have a little girl and that
/ wished Nellie would go to heaven an
J. leave her all alone and then she coul
!, keep all OF her nickels, but she put m
: nickel back into my hand and shut m
fingers on it and pushed me out (
d the door but she did not do it lil
g she was mad but like she was knC
e sorry, and ! would have been sorry
IS she had tooken the nickel so ! didr
go back, and | hope God don't think
- meant it about Nellie going TO hcave
:, - because of courSe girl that tells thinl
" that are not so can't go to heaven. al
;, that is what Nellie Turner does.
- anyhow she did till ! went with h
n awhile, but am not sure she is cure
~ ~ | did not know it was stealing to tai
y. nickels from your own mother or dad,
n and | don't believe it is and II tn
i, love you the right way they will wa
you TO have nickels
II Me and Rowdy went up to the fo
an in the river when school let out al
took off my shoes and stockings al
we went in and wsded and in son
ur places II was up TO my knees and
others II wasn over my feet and VIII,
n ] went to one side of the PLACE whe
the bank goes up kinda steep and