The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-06

IT HIS vas Thursday and now II I,
gone and only the night Of Il, Is
left, and then there will be to-
morrow and then another Saturday
and me- and Rowdy and Morley can 70
somewhere and | won't have to be IN
school and there won't be any school
kids under foot and ! will show her
the places ! know to 70 and maybe some
Of the people ] know. She thinks aheap
Of me and Rowdy because last night
when | had been asleep a long time. !
felt a hand on my face and ] laid there
a minute getting awake and wondering
1t was my mothers angel. ! knew II
wasn't humap because II II had been
Rowdy would have ehAwed Il up be-
fore Il could have got is hands onto
me. and then II didn't 20 away, and u
sneaked a look and Il was Morley, so
then | opened both my eyes as lar as
they would 20 and there was John, TOO,
and they had a light and John said to
Morley, There, dearest, ! told you
she was all right. Rowdy would not
let anything happen to her, would he,
Patsy" And then Worley sat down
on the bed and Rugged me and told me
she had had an awful dream about me
and II woke her up, so then she woke
John up and made him come with her,
and she said she would not. tell eithe~
OF Us what the dream was about hut Il
frightened her, and she said II did
not care she and John would sleep the
rest OF the night in the bed downstairs,
and | told them to 90 to Il, and they
put out the light and went downstairs
and | could hear John putting down all
the windows and locking the doors, just
as " Rowdy Z, ould let anything get IN,
and then | went to sleep and guess
Rowdy felt better, because he did not
know what is was all about, and when
we went downstairs this morning John
and Wofley were gone and the bed was
made up, and OF course nothing did
happen but ! think they did right be-
cause II might have been a dream my
mother or God sent so as to make them
come to me, and il Is better to make
a mistake by being too careful than to
make one by not being careful enough,
WHEN my own true daddy came and !
w was sitting on his ~knes.poking pan.
cakes into his face | told him about It
and he laughed, and then he said,
They are real folks, that girl and boy,
Patsy. They have not got a thing in
the world but each other and his job.
| don't ask God to make you any hap
pier, and il lie makes you as happy one
OF these days | can 60 TO your mother
and not be worried In the going" and
then he laughed and said. But how
about our g~arden1" and he jumped up
and we went out there and looked at
things, and we were there quite a while
and after awhile Worley came, and my
father said he guessed someone had
oversight this morning, and she smiled
and said John would not let her get up
when he did, and my father said to her
tlat she miut always ecf up when hs
! did unless She was W. which means
sick, because she is his partner and she
must 60 fifty fifty with him whatever
that is. Then Morley looked up at
daddy kinda sideways and said, "Haye
II been scoIdedi" My daddy pulled
twice on his pipe and nodded and said,
"You have been scolded, like | might
sometime scold my own little girl" and
Worley put his hand against her cheek
and said, Thank YOU" and then a cat
came over the back fence and went out
the front yard with Rowdy almost
pushing it with his nose, and that made
us all laugh but the cat, and Morley