Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-12-22
A MARX TWAIN STORY.
Cats In Bermuda. According tO That
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Mr.. Smith-that was not his name but it will
anSWer-IueStlOned us about ourselves and
our country. and we answered him truthtullv
as general thing. and questioned him i'm re,
Turn III was all very simple and pleasant and
SoclaOle Rural. too; Tor there was pig and
small donkey and hen anchored out close
at hand, by cords to their legs, on a spos that
puIported TO be grassy. Presently, woman
thing, she changed the drift of our talk Said
Smith: "She didn't look this way YOU noticed?
Nell she Is our next neighbor on one side, and
There another family that's our next neighbor
Ohthe other side: but there's a general cool
ness around now and we don't speak. Yet
these three families, one generation and an
other, have lived here side by side and been
year ago
why. what calamity could have been pow
ertul enough To break up 50 old a friendship
Well. u was too bad but il couldn't be
helped. Ii happened like this: About a year
or more ago the rats got to Fostering my place
a good deal. and i set up "A steel trap in the
back yard. Both of these neighbors run con
sideTably TO eats, and so warned them about
The trap. because their eats were pretty sOc-
able around here nights and they might get
into trouble without my intending il. Well
they shut up their eats for while, but you
know how 1t II with people; they got care
less, and sure enough one night the trap took
Mrs. Jones principal tom cat into camp and
finished him up. In the morning Mrs. Jones
comes here with the corpse in her arms and
takes on the same as if it was child. 1t was
a cat by the name of YelvertOn-Hector c.
1elyerton-a troublesome old rip, with no
more principle than an Injun though YOU
Couldn't MAKE her believe 1t. 1 said all man
could to comfort her. hut no, nothing would
do but must pay for him. Finally, i said /
Warnt investing in eats now as much as was,
and with that she walked off in a huff. carry
ing the remains with her. That closed our in
fereourse with the JOneses. Mrs. Jones Joined
another church and took her tribe with her.
She said she would not hold fellowship with
aSsaSslns- Wei, by and by comes Mrs. Browns
furn-she that went by here a minute ago She
mad dlsgraceful old yellow cat that she
thought as much Of as if he was twins, and one
night he tried that trap on his neck, and it
ntted him So and was so sort of satisfactory,
That he laid down and curled up and staid
with it. Such was the end of Sir John Bald
win"
WAS that the name of the cat?''
The same. There's eats around here with
names that would surprise you. Maria Ito his
wfel, what was that eats name that eat a keg
Of ratSbane by mistake over at HoOper's. and
took the blind staggers and fell in the We'll and
was most drowned before they could fish him
Out?'
That was that colored Deacon Jackson's
eat. i only remember the last end of his name
which was lobe OT-Not To-B Be That Is The
INSTRUMENTATION.
"ShO, that amt the one. That's the one
that eat up an entire box of seidlitZ powders,
and then hadnt any more judgement than to
go and take drink. He was considered TO be
a great loss. but could never see it. Well, no
matter about the names. Mrs Brown wanted
to be reasonable. but Mrs. Jones wouldn't let
her. She put her up to going To law for
damages. SO To law she went and had the
face To claim shlUings and pence Ii made
agreat stir. All the neighbors went to court.
Everybody took sides. II got hotter and hot
ter. and broke up all the friendships for 800
yards arOund-friendshipS that had lasted for
generations and generations Well, proved
by eleven witnesses that the cat was of a low
character apd very ornery, and warn't worth a
Cancelled postage stamp, anyway. taking the
average of eats here; but lost the ease. What
GOnld hpr
and Is bound to make revolution and blood
shed some day. You see, they give the magis-
trate poor little starvation salary, and then
turn him loose on the public To gouge for fees
and costs to live on. What is the natural re-
suit? Why, he never looks into the justice of
the case-neyer once. All he looks al is which
client has go; the money. So this piled the fees
and costs and everything on to me. could
pay sPleee; don't you see: and he knew mighty
where 1t belonged, he would have to take his
swag i'm currency"
Currency: Why. has Bermuda cur
reney3"
"Yes-onions. And they were 40 per cent.
discount too. then, because the season had
been over as much as three months. So lost
my case i had To pay for that cat. But the
general trouble the case made was the worst
thing about IL. Broke up so much good feeling.
The neighbOr> don't speak To each other now.
Mrs Brown had named child after me. But
she changed its name right away. She is Bap-
list. Well in the course of baptiZing il over
again. il got drowned. 1 was hoping we might
get t1 be friendly again some time or other.
but, of course, this drowning the child knock
ed that all out of the question. Ii would have
saved world OF heart-break and ill-blOod if
She had named IL dry"
knew by the sigh that this was honest. All
this trouble and all This destruction of conf
dence in the purity of the bench on account OF
a seven shilling lawsuit about a cat Somehow
ii seemed To size the country.
At this point We observed that an English
flag had just been placed at half-mast on a
building Ito yards away i and my friends
were busy in an instant trying, to. imagine
whose death among the island dignitaries
could command such a mark of respect as this
Then a shuddeT shook them and me at the
same moment. and knew that We had jump
ed TO one and the same conclusion: The
governor HI, gone TO England; it is for The
British Admiral
At this moment Mr.. Smith noticed the flag
He said. with emOtiOn:-
That's on boarding house. Judge there's
q boaTder dead"
4 dozen other flags within view went to
Ial4nast.
Its a boarder. sure said Mr.. Smith
but would they halfmast the flags here fOl
aboarder, Mr.. smith
Why, certainly they would, if lie was
dead"
That saafnad IN Siza tho eouutry aoain