Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-12-15
Miss MIitten's Story.
BY JULIA NJ. rHAYER, AMANUENsls.

BY JULIA N. THAYER, AMANUENSiS-
My name is Miss Mitten. I'm a
kitten. / could talk great deal in
the new new language, but Uncle
Tom says common people Cont
understand that-none but Polly
Polly Rose is a little girl. She
belongs to me, and comes always
generally pretty often, when l call
her, and feeds me out Of ole of
Mary AIMS China dishes, and plays
with me. .-r --.tax5r
Mary Ann is-well-sbe's awful
funny! Always staring right in front
of her, and her back is as stiff as a
poker, and she wouldn't lift finger
to help herself, no, not if the sky
was falling It's my opinion-and
I'm klttcn-but come close, SO
that she can't hear; l don't want to
hurt her feelings, if she hasn't got
any; it's my opinion Mary Ann is
what they call shoddy-all over.
Uncle Tom is genius in his way
He is president of the Cat egorical
Society; and at their great concerts
you ought to see how it moves all
the feelines when he scrapes the ffd
die. He says, too, he's very fond
of ratiocination. And :'Mittie, !"
says he, stroking his whiskers, ''only
think what it is to have nine lives to
live, all in a row, without stopping
There's experience for you. Come to
me, my dear, whenever you get into
trouble.' r..--a4r .r
Pshaw amt / kitten cat?
= Dear-O-me! l can't keep still
any longer; w..ere is the end of my
tail?. i thought I saw it flirt by q
minute ago. Whiz. whir, there it
goes! no it don't; now 1 have it
no haven't; Viii r-r; buzz. thump,
bumpety. bump! Who would have
thought 1 was going to run my
cocoanut against the chimney jamb !?
Chimney jambs are nuisance.
Well that makes me think of the
time when / first saw nv little girl.
1t was away off in another place.
There were six of us, and NANNY
besides, all snuggled down in the
bottom of a barrel. One day we
saw them peeping over the top of
barrel at us; Polly and tother one.
Polly's eyes were so bright, and her
hair so yellow. that Cripsey thought
it was sun-up, and began to cry for
his breakfast. But knew letter l
knew it was Polly.
There they are,' said totlrer
oner amt they the sweetest, pref
tiest, cunningest"-but I'm not
going to tell all that nonsense.
"To be sure they are" said Polly.
'But how are we to get at them?
And with that they clambered up
on a pile OF boards close by; away
went the boards, and down they
came, crash. crash in the midst of us,
and what a mess we had of il.
Mother Crump, and six kittens, and
Poll, and tother one, all in one bar
rel, and no bones broker; only /
am sure, to this day, that L never
shall live out half my nine lives.
o, but wasn't that mouse the other
day, Half as long as your arm,
and twice as big as he was long. !
chased HIM under the chairs, over
the cupboard, across The table, round
and round, up and down, half way
to the moon and back, and just rs l
thought / had him, he wasn't there!
Nothing in the world to be seen but
a little bit of knot hole, 20 biggern
Pollv's thumb.
Snow was there mouse? or
wasn't there 2" says L; "tell me
quick, Uncle Tom, or l shall have a
cat spasm. To think of whirling
round and roun like humble
skeeter with his head shot of, and
all fizzle out at knot hole"
Compose yourself, my DEAR"
said Uncle Tom; Zone half the world
is amusing itself in the same manner,
this very minute. r
O. but didn't / watch the knot
hole after-,that! Watched it till /
fairly grew fast to the floor. Upon
Wife l couldn't away till Polly
came ard fetched me. Poly Shrek
ed, she did.
"Oh! pitch. tar, turpentire, and
lnmber." she said; ''if you aren't all
glued fast to the dirty pine boad.
You sweety, tweety, pity, kitty you"
And then she dressed me up in my
scarlet flannel jacket, and white petit
coat, and high crown, muslin cap,
with the blue ribbons; and set the
little table all out with Mary AIMS
china dishes, and put me in Mary
AIMS chair, and said her "dear,
little, old Granny Crump should
have emp of tea, so she should:"
Mary Ann was dreadfully jealous -
Little Corporal.