Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-19

to his shoulder, when his arms fell
nerveless on the window sill, his blood
turned cold, his heart stopped beating
and all the milk in the cellar was soured
by wild, fierce yell, that was enough
to brighten Meigs Schenck's wolf Gu,
from the gloom of Pilger's barn came
the answering howl.
The sound that had terrified Mr.
Carmichel and set the baby to crying
was as the sound of trumpet to the
yellow cat on the wood-shed. Joy filled
its heart at the response to its oft re-
peated challenge, and it welcomed the
unseen champion with fiercely Joyous
felines.
(The choir will please sing two verses
while the deacons take collection fol
that
Running rapidly to the comb of the
roof where the two sides, had there
been more than one, would have beer
united at the ridge pole, which Was no,
there, the yellow cat looked up the
street and then danced a rapid Jig or
the shingles and stuck its tail straight
up in the air and pointed it about two
points wind ard, which signal reads:
"Lay to and send boat alongside. u
As soon as he had spanked the baby
for being frightened. and had recovered
from his own terror, Mr.. Carmichael
leaned far out of the window and
peered eagerly into the fading moon
light. The yellow Cat on the wood-shed
gave two short howls and whetted its
claws on loose single, and unseen
in the gloom below, another cruiser
was heard grinding something on the
curbstone, while it emitted two long
bowls and short one.
"Allah-ka.wow-yrow!" howled the
yellow cat on the wood.shed, 81 am
the five. clawed terror of the alley walk /!
I never sleep and my voice is the doom
of DEATH"
Gitchee Monitow!" yelled the cat
on the ground, ~ am the wire-woven
king of the roof, and the disturber Of
dreams! Marian! ana the walking
morgue of the back fence, and carry
my dead cart with mel"
Whoop!" shrieked the yellow cat
on the wood-shed. "I'll tear down a
ninety lumber pile if it lifts its back at
mel"
"Hush!" roared the cat in the dark,
II can wade across the Mississippi
river when I'm right mad!"
"Ho!' screamed the yellow cat on
the wood-shed, ~ am the one eyed
Calling gun of the hill tors and the
fiery untamed demon of the night
time"
A bound as of rapid scrambling was
heard, and tall, slenderly built, but
musuclar, gentlemanly- looking cat,
with an expression of reassuring conf
dence in Its quiet eyes, stood on the
shed roof and made triumphal arch
of itself.
"And l." it said, calmly, Gam the
night blooming serious and the gentle
soothing syrup of the prairies."
Without further preliminaries, the
declaration Of war was promulgated by
both powers and the yellow cat crossed
the Pruth in two places. For one
brief moment the moonlight was dis
turbed by mass of hair, spherical in
shape and about the size of q bushel
and half measure. And it did seem
to Mr.. Carmichel that he had never in
his life beheld cat SO quickly, neatly,
completely, awfully carved up, knocked
down and dragged out, sat upon and
dissected after the inquest as was the
"one-eyed gatling gun of the hill-tops,"
while the brindle cat, after reading the
proclamation of peace and declaring a
general amnesty of the same kind
against the next cat that dare "holler
when he wants to talk, got down from
the shed with hardly scratch.
Mr.. Carmichael watched the champion,
almost with afeeling of awe, as the brln-
die cat cautiously walked down the
back yard until it reached the summer
kitchen. Here it paused, and the as
tonished citizen, dumb with amaze
ment, watched it unbuckle a pair of
two.inch gaffs from its hind legs and
carefully hide them under the kitchen
door step.
ed like to see," the brindle cat re.
marked to himself, in tones OF immense
satisfaction and confidence, "I'd like
to see the home bred cat that wants to
occupy pleasant roof with me. Thrice
is he armed who"
And then the pleased victor broke off
his soliloquoy and sat under the lee OF
the kitchen and sang the "Hymn to
the night" until four o'clock in the
morning.
But the song did not disturb Mr.,
Carmichael. He went to bed, but he
was too full of wonder to sleep, and
much he narveled on what he had seen
and heard.-Ha,okeye.
REooaNTIoN.-After he had chased
the Car for block and half he man
aged to get aboard. when, much to hit
indignation, he found one of his friends
in the car. "You saw me running
why didn't you stop the car and not lie,
me run myself to death ?" and with 6
hooked finger he slung some of the
perspiration from his brow out of the
window. II didn't recognize you Al
first. I could only see the upper par
of your body from where was sitting
II 1 had only seen your feet would
have known you several miles," Tht
rest OF the passengers glanced at hi
feet and smiled. They were regular
beetle-crushers. The owner of then
seemed to have all the explanation h1
needed for the time being. Galrseto,
News.