The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-14

THIS is Tuesday and it will be
tuesday until y o'clock tonight
and our garden is the best looking
garden in the school because the prin-
cipal said so, and she has seen all OF
them. The kid that is a garden partner
Of me and Rowdy ays that il any gar
den gets to looking any better than ours
he is going to drag something across
il, but he says he is going to work so
hard on OUR garden that ours is bound
to be the best and | guess he is a
truth-teller, because he was working in
our garden when me and Rowdy got
there, and there is not any more weeds
in our garden than there is in our
home garden, and my own true daddy
does not let any weeds get in that.
When me and Rowdy got there the
little boy was sitting down in the dirt
digging up the dirt around the toma-
toes with his fingers, and | asked him
what he wanted me TO do, and he said
there was not enough work for both OF
us and ! could 60 over in the school
yard and play with the kids till school
called and | told him do not play
with the other kids, and he said that
was funny, because | am the best kid
in school, and good kids play with
everyone that wants them 20, and Of
course he was right about me and Row
dy being the best in school and about
our being willing to play with anyone
that wants me to, but told him about
nobody wanting me TO- and he looked
kinda funny and then he went to work
again and said he would do all the gar
den work before school and then after
school he would take me where there
are some kids that will play with me
because he knows a bunch of kids that
do not care who they play with. So
me and Rowdy was kinda glad when
school started, because the sooner
school starts the sooner it will let OUT.
and then the sooner kid and her =.
can get to go where they are going.
WJHEN lunch time came and | was
w buying my bowl Of soup and sand
witch and Rowdy's soup and sandwich
from the janitor's wife who is getting
rich selling eats 10 the kids, / saw the
little garden kid eating some bread
without any meat on Il over in the cor
ner Of the basement, and me and Row
dy went over there, and | looked at
him a minute and he saw who il was
and he looked at me and the bowls Of
soup, and then he looked down at the
floor and kept feeding his face and
saying nothing, and then I said
went and bought bowl OF soup and
now ! am not hungry and do not want
TO throw II away. Will you eat Il for
me" And he just reached out his hand
and took II and then he would take a
bite Of bread and a mouthful of SOUP
and chew them up together and then he
would swallow them sad roll up his
eyes and take another. and when he 90,
all done took his bowl and Roudy's
back to the janitor's wife and I told the
boy thank you for eating my soup and
he said ! was welcome and he would
help me out that way any time
wanted ! bet II he, knew what my
stummick was saying to me he would
not think | would want him to do i,
very often.
WHEN school let out and me and
w Rowdy was going to chase our
selves so as to catch the little boy and
have him take US TO some kids that did
not care who they played with, Mis-.
Sands called me back and asked me IL
did not want to come around TO her hous,
and see the sisten-in-law's baby, and
I told her she could let Jean go around
and see II because ! was too busy, and
she said all right IL ! felt that WY
| about (, ,nd then me and pnudy b,,r