Show little sir galahad n 0 A story with a soul by arple C copyright yant a by small le maynird ft F faith ith an fn a god love of men sound ad living them bad and more am are he hero et t forth in a way that makes make it this h I 1 new ela quest ent of the holy grail one on to benfit benefit very every member of every ry homo home 1 in following it with the tha little boy bay whose whole sublime blim faith and ad at tanch oh loyalty are th the most at real things in a his the life tha people a I 1 Y you I 1 are to meet here are real 1 I people their homes home and ad live are like our or own and y you will neighbor with and ed 1 love 1 the them every namee minute of 1 the be way y along no CHAPTER on clipper HIT hill mary alice brown brawn with the washing for hire travers on a boy a express wagon wago trudged aluna earnestly cit Y up the long llope ipe of f clipper MIT hill the big washing packed solidly into the small email cart M re ambled a young mon montain taft I 1 on wheels eel nad d ya you wondered 1 tt if ml mary all alice ce we would old ever r get to the top of the hill bill then you saw in mary dory alice a wan little f face ace a determination that made up for what hot her bar thin anus alles and legs lacked lacke d in strength yes she ehe would get to the top somehow mary alice was twelve and skime for her size great solemn even evea gazed at you from beneath a not very tidy mass san of black halt hair innocent of ad adorn a meet the things that wake make I 1 little it girls gills attractive cleanliness plumpness nice ice clothes mary alice failed in yet she made a pathetic mute claim upon open your year attention mary allees alice a on other mother said it was tunny funny how the little littie girl generally managed to do the thing she set bet out to do no matter how hard it use ansa the washing had never failed to arrive it at mrs him trove travers bouse in good condition and season the sun had bad slipped away behind the farther slope elope ot of clipper hill so that the aresi crest of the long slope ended at a shin able ing get gateway eway formed bv the arching elms clipper hill was the masto aristocratic cratic avenue of kleifield i kle ffield the sug suggested ested symbolism bull of that long climb was lost last upon mary alice brown her else hack back ached so eo did her bar arms legs and head consciousness of these afflictions left I 1 no space J in her ber I 1 soul for fee a j though there was room mom enough in her bar stomach abbe had had no supper three boy came racing down the bill shouting and taunting one an other all had bad been recently fed in their respective homes along the select highway mary alice saw them chang ing down upon her like an avalanche and ad shrank break aside aid to let them the p pass two of the three avalanching youths passed mary alice and her wagon harmlessly harmles Bly the third several p paces 1 in rear thrust threat out or a bard baad caught hl tae wagon tongue from mary allen alice and ad geair the load lend spinning planning long along the ns as phal t it tipped 0 on two wheels wheela and 0 mary auto alice wept miserably thrust threat their itself tepidly stupidly against the fence face a where what I 1 it t tinned turned turtle the bundle of laundry ruptured instantly and a a of f honest linen beat shower in the street mary alice with a protesting cry of an anger and on chagrin ran a 4 few steps erLd after the fleeing ting youth shouting arill emall in e renales of wrath th he looked over b bla 1 shoulder at the result of his ranton impulse and laughed mary alice wept miserably and began pick ing u up the wiled tolled and undeliverable pieces she card beard quick steps and felt the wind of f a passing solid mamin klY P pro called out of ordnance a human homes and viry projectile then than followed snarl our ing in s high gh pitched cries the thud thal of if blown the rattle ittle of turn and heels upon atone t A few yards down the street me geande had ot overtaken the malefactor punish punishment me t bard upon the heels beels of I 1 fixed him said A voice cho kedly b breathless math leas ile he we won t do that again in a hurry burry mary allm alice looked up let into a to face de signed 1 mand for good humor bounce but just juat now devoted to the scarlet purpose of rath mth the blue eyes flashed the mixed licht ton of Indle indignation ration and complacence the th red imir hair seemed armed Us to anft with truculence and pride mary alice went on wholly soberly picking up her scattered load vaguely iely ly the P possibilities mind 11 of this pugnacity tined stirred 1 in b her or mind me maybe abe the boy would 0 alx her t too no but all at one once he be grinned claimed let me help you he said are they at all d dirty i arty its to too bad what arc 1 goin you coln to do with em am tale take em am home gain again replied mary my alice mother 11 have to wash E em all 11 over the red headed boy bof picked up the last dust smutted napkin and watched mary alice pack the big misshapen load into place she swung the 11 little atle wag angon away from the team fence and I 1 in silence started down the hill bill where wh you got goin demanded the imy boy home elmas whre where s that calvert street ab oh 11 sold the boy 11 he knew all 1 about calvert street by reputation it ran raa through the neighborhood known so as the devil a truck track patch 1 I gue guess I 1 II 11 go long with th you yon an 1 he be I it decided crid ll 11 maybe abe those fellows fellow a ye might bother hat you some me more I 1 they we won t if I 1 m 1 alonsi I tare though raby wo mary alice bulther s accepted ed nor re ejected this proposal she went out silently down the hill joining leaning back to check the par pace ot or her loaded we wagon mat your name demanded the boy very mary alice brown brawn mine 8 willett francis willett Wll lett I 1 he be he informed formed her quite gratuitously I 1 in a galahad knight mary alice brown showed no curt it osley concerning the complexion or du do ties ot of a galahad knight its atsa a club francis explained we b have a ten tell members and ad we re all 11 pledged to fattest the weak against the strong why I 1 licked lutey travers I 1 got up the club myself air read mail all about the idea in a book k knight la I 1 a fellow that swears that whenever he be sees beauty 0 the knight paused and mary alices alice a thin face as they passed under an electric light tor fee the golden gate it at the at street it bead had now faded as all symbols are am prone to do ile he went on er beauty or any anything tIong in ole tress of course you aren t that Is you yon were in distress so I 1 came to your rescue we see he steadied tend I 1 id the toppling wagon as mary 7 alice 1 eadd led ca it t eel ackois a altre curbstone curb tone the little girl h heard rat hla his complacent chatter charter all too indistinctly she was go ing home empty banded and they needed the money so BO to imely bitterly mary marv alice shuddered hudder cd francis wll wit ton lett finding in his bis own virtue a re ward heightened by rebe rehearsal amal babbled cheerfully of galahad knights and ad e ex in detail derail how they differed train from boy scouts mary alice wished he would go away at last they came cam to calvert street tarm threading th the perils devil auell patch it wag a full of people men and women loung lounged d upon pon I 1 front stoops children in droves played on the pavement both sidewalks were bordered with the win dow lights of stores largely sol saloons it was a tough neighborhood francis willett had never ever seen that street be fore fare some raucous voiced urchins swarmed by jostling and boisterous they a ere very verv dirty and very happy I 1 ahe be boy from clipper HIT hill lost last a little of at hla his assurance me A drunken man lunged jumped past swaying bud and tatter tottering log and it as he went he mumbled thick tom bias pho ullas vv mv gracious said aid the boy bay a little appalled do you have to live here co course I 1 do answered mary A al ice it m waa as almost the first time all ehe had spoke booken my aly folks folke live be here I 1 got to stay with them aln ain t I 1 1 I 1 I suppose oppose I 1 so which to fa your year house bouw mary alice turned up ap an alley ay nar mtr row and dimly lighted and crowded before a tenement hebe house abe stopped shopped let here a 1 1 I live she Is a eaid aid she ile did not net invite her tie f seen escort in she did not thank him tor for hla his nightly knightly it condet she he looked at him and ad wished he be would go I 1 way away TEI ha an waa very wag in his big neat cost clothes with his round good humored complacent tace face ile he had never known a trouble 1 in the world oh yes yea be said aid craning hla his neek neck to view the spider web of fire escapes that decorated the front of the build jug ing I 1 well I 1 guess I 1 won t stay my father dollet ITT like for me to say e here a a present tor for you yon the gets gala had bad knights are am all pledged to he held out something in his bis he hand n d something which he drew draw from B pocket where it jingled against go amt othene of its it kind it waa a particularly P teri birly shiny bell ball dollar do mary alice looked into the good natured belf assured pap prosperity of y francis willett s b face then n he looked down at the coin all the way home ht he bad impressed her rith r alth him bla abbonda I 1 t good will toward the weak k and ad helpless j PI he wits not or a rb child it like 1 herself if a companion but bel belt li right eona us little prig puffed up with till hla his own awn virtuous ift conceit of worse vary mary alice it did I 1 d not thick this in just the those a tot terms im but t her whole starved till little U being aa 9 with the sense of the feet fact she he 1301 became me furlong furious and suddenly astruck t k the offered coin from her would I 1 be I 1 ze ben efa exactor citer a extended palm then she be turned and ad ran blindly up the a steps top bud and slammed the dor door with a hung bang that astonished the young too phi I 1 even more than thad it angered him he too turned and leaving ill the a coin 1 where it had bad fallen stalked in oaf 11 down the alley allay with the agull dignity 11 of of limited vanity lem brown was wag at home ire he sat humped d in a kitchen chair stupidly rapidly watching ml ilia his wife 11 who was dabbing alz be her look cheek with cold old water at the shot sink lem lein had bad just track mrs its brown in because mary alice did not come home sooner r with the washing money from mrs mra travers just what connection th drunkard struck her heavily upon the mouth i he made in his blurred mind between his hia wife and the nou appearance ot of hla his daughter Is beside the point it satis batts tied fled him so he be acted accordingly lem would not have bava mine come home at all 11 that at I 1 evening ing except that he be was a en th destitute he could not seem to get any more liquor without money bartenders or are a singularly lot when the question of credit Is broached and free speeders spend era pre ferver to lavish their hospitality up upon good natured friends rather than upon the quarrel quarrelsome som a bm brown an lem was waa entirely out of patience pat tence with work tor for himself but it 9 gave 91 1 him considerable satisfaction to know that t hla wife could d command d e employment mui mu i pia y t as an a Is aun I 1 dresa r by y bome of the gest best families in the city he we waa an authority dhority tho rity up upon athletic an is and ad spent the greater part of h his I 1 time 1 in et am place where such jimr deports is w were r me dis bussed taking ills his ample part in oil all arguments ile he also had bad his opinion of the government city state and nation 1 I and his dictum upon international mi relations allom carried the dignity of an old datum he thoroughly disapproved of prohibition local option or any actual or suggested restraint of veda trade touch ing upon the distribution of stimulants lem was a large knobby man with a wobbly abla 11 bad and a prominent mart under its lip me hla fives were meaningless at etu put eyes quite im incapable los ot of tc expressing pressing any softness or human sympathy tie he was always dirty always sullen when more itan than ordinarily intoxicated his sullenness became a a dangerous aang erous brutal brumo eager anger against ail 11 opposition and next time I 1 it give you worse he promised premised eying his wife here I 1 am in wart want nc lally shully its des tute tate and nd not act I a p penny y do I 1 get II if mut that brat do don t mus come home soon a n I 1 m hamer k your year head bond off mrs silent brown T the kitch kitchen 1 n lighted inadequately bv a Plit hillea I 1 gaa a jet aa a di dismal 0 place choked with the redolence of if lem broa brown alcoholic sam aura in a corner comer a child slept opt I 1 uneasily ally A bottle battle and aboon on the table e near by 1 suggest awo 71 bry uzal ed cal that the occupant crop of f the shabby bh ir crib was waa ill mrs mn brown went want and bent over it listening anxiously to the quick irregular breathing steps sounded on oil the tot and ad seemed blamed to hesitate outside could the door which fir presently swung upon open to admit mary alice e she looked fearfully from lem to her bar other mother H hullo ile kid mid bald lem what kept you old mary macy AT alice 6 1 wallow I he hep IS pride enough to 1 lead ead tho the brutal b rather father down dew to the t I 1 gutter where w h he had thrown throw the t he eoln at a TU aik 1 |