Pretty soon 'long
comes walking a nice lady with a sweet voice and kind eyes. She sat down
close me and says: 'It's a nice day.' We got chummy-like, when right up at
the fountain before us stops as swell an automobile as there is. One of
the brown French-governess-ladies with the hatchet face got out, and
unloaded three kids: two boys and a girl. She told the kids if they didn't
sit on the benches she socked them on hard, and keep their clothes clean
so she wouldn't have to wash and dress them again that day, she'd knock
the livers out of them, and walked off with the entrance policeman. Soon
as she and Bobbie got interested, the kids began sliding off the bench and
running around the fountain. The girl was only 'bout two or three, a fat
toddly thing, trying to do what her brothers did, and taking it like the
gamest kid you ever saw when they pushed her off the seat, and tripped
her, and 'bused her like a dog.
"Me and the woman were getting madder every minute. 'Go tell your nurse,'
says she. But the baby thing just glanced where nurse was and kind of
shivered and laughed, and ran on round the fountain, when the big boy
stuck his foot out so she fell.
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