The Rosie World

THE ROSIE WORLD BY PARKER FILLMORE Author of The Hickory Limb, The Young Idea With Illustrations by MAGINEL WRIGHT ENRIGHT
Parts of The Rosie World have appeared serially in Everybody's Magazine under the titles: The Chin-Chopper, A Little Savings Account, copyright, 1912, by The Ridgway Company; A Little Mother Hen, The Loan of a Gentleman Friend, Crazy with the Heat, copyright, 1913, by The Ridgway Company; The Stenog, The Watch-Dog, The Rosie Morrow, copyright, 1914, by The Ridgway Company; and in Smith's Magazine under the title: What Every Lady Wants, copyright, 1913, by Street & Smith.
Mrs. O'Brien raised helpless distracted hands. Off wid yez to school! she shouted. All of yez! Make room for George! What Mrs. O'Brien really called her boarder is best represented by spelling his name Jarge.
Maybe I didn't have a dandy fight on my last trip down, George announced as he took off his coat and began washing his hands at the sink.
The young O'Briens clustered about him eagerly.
Did you lick him, Jarge? Terry asked.
Tell us about it! Rosie begged.
Will yez be off to school! Mrs. O'Brien again shouted.
No one heeded her in the least. George by this time was seated at the table and Rosie was hanging over his shoulder. Terence and small Jack stood facing him at the other side of the table and Miss Ellen O'Brien, with the baby in her arms, lingered near the door.
Your cabbage'll be stone cold, Mrs. O'Brien scolded, and they'll all be late for school if they don't be off wid 'em!
Was he drunk, Jarge? Rosie asked.