The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-10-04

Catville. But the best of tempers are
sometimes tried, and one morning Mrs
Tabitha Grey, having been made rheu-
matte and cross by week Of rain and
fog, boxed the ears of her Oldest, and
spit at her youngest kitten, because they
attempted to play game of chop, skip
and jump" across her back.
Nothing would have come of it, and
this tale would have been untold, had
not Mrs. Tortoise Shell Topaz, Tabitha' s
most intimate friend, been present. Mrs.
Tortoise-Shen Topaz had kind heart,
but she was very vain of her story-tell-
ing ability, and when she went home,
and found Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Spot
sitting on the doorstep, she could not
refrain from describing what she had
just witnessed, and of course she made
the story as interesting as possible.
MIR. Joshua Spot was very much
amused, and Mrs. Spot, if the truth
must be told, was highly gratifed to
know that Mrs. Tabitha Grey had actu-
ally lost her temper, and when they made
the Iext call, which was upon Mrs.
Pinky White, Mrs. Spot said, insinuat-
ingly:
Ella, Mrs. Pinky White, you can
never, never guess what I heard this
morning."
"Of course you will tell me" replied
Mrs Pinky White
sob, I don't know as to that" said
Mrs. Spot with Importance. cit was
told me in the strictest confidence by
Mrs. Tortoise-Shen Topaz"
sob, do tell it, then p cried Mrs.
Pinky White, trembling with curiosity.
&C You and Mr.. Spot tell story so de-
ightfully, it will be more amusing to
hear it from you than any one. Do tell
me about it, that's dearl''
SWELL said fattered Mrs. Spot,
"Mrs. Tortoise-S Shell Topaz called upon
Mrs. Tabitha Grey this morning, and,
while she was there, Tabitha-you know
what name for amiability she has
scratched her oldest kitten till he blcd
Topaz said she saw hair fly; indeed, Tn
sure she said so. And her youngest
kitten, little Malta, she frightened into
fits, by splitting and scolding at her
And what do you think was the occasion
of it all? The poor, little, darling dears
were playing over their mothers back ?
Did anybody ever hear anything sc
shocking?'' exclaimed Mrs. Pinky White
"I'm sure L never, never did !" sait
Mr.. Joshua Spot, in a very bass voice
cit is really no more than 1 have sus
pected this long time" said Mrs. Spot.
Give always thought her an artfu
piece" said Mrs. Pinky White.
"Please don't lisp word of this tc
any one, said Mrs. Spot, as she rose tt
take her leave.
"Not for the world" said Mrs. Pink,
White, impatient for her visitor to go
that she might scamper to Mrs. Saith
Black with the news. 81 consider i
quite confidential"
From cat to cat the story went, and a
last it was whispered that Mrs. Tabithi
Grey had, in a fit of rage, torn in pieces
her oldest, and eaten up her younges
kitten.
As the story gained in proportions i
lost In definiteness. At Catscratch, {
town ten miles from Catville, if was sale
that a cat at Cs+-:Ile became angry ant
tore all her kittens in pieces and the1
ate them up. At Catawampeag it wa
said that two cats of Catville devouret
their kittens while in a fit of rage; anC
when the story reached Catopolis it wa
SAID that ten cats, supposed to be th,
descendants of the celebrated Kilkenn,
cats, tore their kittens in pieces. ant
then, falling upon each other, the,
scratched, and tore, and bit, till the tip
of their tails and the ends of their nail
was all that was left of them.
BY curious law, scandal, like fox
turns at a certain point and retraces it
steps. From Catopolis the story hoate
back to Catville, and one fine morning
when Mrs. Tabitha Grey and her kit
tens. now grown to be stable cats, wer
summing themselves on the walk, Mrs
Satin Black told them terrible stor
about thirty cats who had become star
mad through uglIness, and torn thei
kittens and then each other, till only
few tufts of cat-hair was left to tell th
tale
Where did it happen?" cried Mrs
Tabitha Grey.
At Catopolis, Mr.. Lowler told me,
said Mrs. Satin Black.
cit is dreadful! very dreadful |!
sighed Mrs. Tabitha Grey. "You an
l., Mrs. Black, know very little of til
wickedness and misery there is in tn
world. "-Ne,0 York Tribune.
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The late Judge Petit, of Indiana,
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