Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-27

mouse and the seal called his father
Dad" 80 Robbie Greer was Dad ia
Victor too. The old widow in the vii
lago who kept the postoface. grocer
shop was "Auntie Kitty" to her orphan
niece. Alice, SO she was "Auntie Kitty
to Victor also.
Everybody loves that child" said
Janet. 1t was true. As far hack "a
that. under God knows what guidance.
days Of storm and tempest.
During his earlier years he saw little
Of his father, but every evening after
to bid good night to him, and then the
Deemster would lift him up to the pic
ture to bid good. night to his mother
also.
"You must love and worship her all
your life, darling. Ill tell you why,
some day."
He was a born gypsy. often being lost
In the broad plantations about the
house, and then turning up with aston :.
ishing stories Of the distances he had
Travelled.
''I didn't went no farther nor Ram.
sey today. mother seven miles as the
crow flies.
He was a born poet, too. and after
the Deemster had made " Limerick
on his Christian name, he learned to
rhyme to the same measure. making
quatrains almost as rapidly as he could
speak, though often with strange words
Of his own compromising. Thus he
celebrated his pet lamb, bis kid, his rab.
bits, the rocks on the lawn, and par
ticularly q naughty young pony his
father had given him, who "lived in the
fer" and whom he wanted to 80 to
| Peel" but whenever he went out to
fetch her she ''always kicked up her
| heel Janet thought this marvellous,
miraculous. 1t was a gift The little
prophet Samuel might have been moro
sanity. but he couldn't have been mole
wonderful.
Janet was not the only one to be i'm.
pressed. It is known now that day BY
day the Deemster copied the boys
rhymes, with much similar matter, into
leather. bound book which he had Ia.
Diary" He kept this secret volume
under locke and key, and it was never
seen by any one else until years after.
ward. when, in a tragic hour. the child.
ish jingles in the judges sober hand.
writing, under the eyes that looked at
them, burned like fame and cut like q
knife.
1t was remarked by Janet that the
Decmster.s affection for Tho child grew
greater, while the expression of it be-
came less "A tbe wears went on. "Ts
the boy up yet?' would be the first
word he would say when she took his
early tea to him in the morning; and
II long day in the courts kept him
from home until after the child had been
put to bed. he would never sit down
,.nksI Lo A. L. -,
little one in his cot.
Tn common with other imavinat,v.
children hrom.bt IN alone tho hou IN.
vented a plavmnte. but contrarv 70 cns.
tom his invisihle comrade vcs ~ the
onnosite s... NOT that ~ N. little
drcs smer n. cailed her Sadis nobody
Eneu, whv or how he had ccms hv ths
name for n vas onit. mnknoWn ~ The
;sisnd Sadie lived With hsr mothsr
Mrs Corlett in the Iodse ~ Ra,in mosr
which md heen emntv and shnt m .inc:
."rha Htrs nverT dieI. vhen ths coach.
man who nod occnnisd n vsr m
longer needed. On returnins from soms
~ his rmnawav AUNT, The hoy accounteS % |
Sor his absence bv "A vins he hsS hsen
down "a the sate Ia see Sadie. He Allied
the empty house with an entire scheme
~ domest,c economv. and comld tsIi vo,,
all that haDDene0 there.
"S.d,s wss neelins the potato.s this
morn;no and Mrs. CorIett Was vash.
inv nm mamma -
80 r Htou-
his pony name was Mony. snd Gy
SIX years OF sse ne na9 aS leaso 70 rIue
her WIN sucn ease anu con"asnce tnet
10 zee ihem caheerins up sne arivs was
70 tnlhk tnat ooS anu PonE mlst oe
single creature. MG"y oeveloPea ioai,
called Jerry: wH.cn .%sN a.%aS' rSs %snted 70
DC ttotuns 1te, n' % InotnoA a"ss eu.tca ntc
the poy perlecuy.. Ory nso ~ GatLy
;nM;S;h,s comrad. 20 ha nesrIv aIvavs
,,,;th him
VIZ Rrt -. i.r,th c.ne . dir. event which
dostrovsd SoSie The master ~ Raj.
i"nnas s. wos rjsin, s.vsn whsn . d,.t.nt
raiat;uo ~ Tho nsrhv family ifcrmsrIv
tSn T",ds - Mani was annointsd Iism.
tnsont tns .u snvsrror ~ tho island Th;. mas
g., Stauiav IN .r.Ina;.r of;csr
Or vn Ua IN n,iiS,e rfe not hr;,jiant
h,,s tba ,rnornation NJ common .ense
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staMs trep ns.a Oh. r.v co,..,,,
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rhey 'ns. Pshnn ms' vSbors Sf a' 90 son;or i"dse
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