The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-10-01
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BLAZER was in haste 10 go up street the other
morning, but he couldn't find his hat and as the
,sun was az quite an angle above the horizon he
wouldn't 20 bareheaded, because he didn't want
to expose the bald results Of his early piety to Soils
warm rays. Heshufied his feet about the house
rather mildly at FIRST looking under tables, be-
hind chairs and other places where he th6ughthe
might have left his hat the night before, but he
q, couldn't find it; presently he grew wilder, and
lcwaltzed about the room lively 20 quote mathe-
matical rule applied philosophy, or words to the
same eject; the intensity of his excitement in
creased as the square Of his distance from the mis-
sing the diminished he glded out into the kitchen
and kicked over wash tubto see If his hat was
under II, next he thought of Marias frequent re-.
marh"keep cool head, 'and that drove him to
look through the refrigerator for what he wanted
but after having upset pitcher Of milk and run
ming his hand wrist deep into crock Of peach
butter, he found It wasn't there Then hereInem-
bered having heard his wife say the day before
that she hadn't enough vessels for her jam, and
the suspicion flashed across his mind that she had
converted It into a jam crock IN the emergency,
and he said jam It, and wentinto the cellar where,
numerous attempts to plane the under side Of the
floor with the upper side Of his head, and after
several brief ejaculatiye soliloquies he returned
TO the kitchen, and asked where, my bellies that
hat but no one knew. Then he looked under the
stove, It was shaded there and he couldn'tsee we'll
he saw something black and reached for it, but he
knew the moment the eat scratched him that It
wasn't his hat He lost his patience slightly then,
and getting broom he seemed TO have forgotten
the hat, for Blazer the broom and the cat had a
race while Maria acted ssrefereel they ran through
the yard into the street. where the broom shut Bla-
zer out by getting between his boot tops they both
reclined, the broom going into mud puddle-but
Blazer showed the pluck which characterized his
fore fathers at Bunker Hill and Lexington, TO say
nothing Of Casars invasion Of Britain, 55 B. c.
and regaining the broom, resumed the pursuitget-
ting back into the house, where rushing frantically
through thestting room door, hesaw Maria, buttoo
late to prevent frescong her face with the muddy
broOm-her eyes, mouth, nose and easwere full Of
noistened real estate There was another entry into
the race then, and Maria made II more exciting
for Blazer than he did for the cat 1t took consd.
able time to conclude the affair, but the cat and
Mr. Blazer were the only parties 10 the confusion
that escaped without injury. After all had been
toned down, and the needless disturber of domes.
tie peace had been brought by Maria to an ac-
knowledgement of his inferiorty, and hts inabil
ty as a seeker for hats, she went 70 the hat rack in
the hail and brought him the thing he long had
sought, He appeared to be very absent minded
for period Of two or three days, and then the af-
fair all blew over, ane no more was said oft.