Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-19


years. He intends to run the hotel him
self. having had experience az land.
lord.-L>dger.
THAT DREADFUL B0T.
Peck's Sun.
Every time pa says anything" re-
marked the bad boy. addressing the
grocery man, sit gives me a new idea
l tell you pa has got great brain, bu,
sometimes he don't have it with hun
When he said the other day was q
terror to cats, thought what fun there
is in cats, and me and my chum went Il
stealing cats right off, and before night
We had eleven cats Gagged. We had one
in a canary bird cage, three in pas old
hat boxes. three in mas band boxes
four in valises, two in trunk and the
rest in closet up stairs. That night
pa said he wanted nae to stay at home,
because the committee that is going to
get up an oyster supper in the church
was going to meet at my house, and
they might want to send me on pyramids.
| asked him If my shum couldn'nt stay
too, cause he is the healthiest infant to
run after errands that ever was, and pa
said he could stay, but We must remem
Der that there musn't be no monkey
business going on. told him there
would be no monkey business, but I
didn't promise nothing about cats. Well.
sir, you'd Q died. The committee was
in the library, BY the back stairs, and
me and my chum got the cat boxes all
together at the top of the stairs, aud
We took them all out and pnt them in a
clothes basket, and Just as the minister
was speaking, and telling what a great
good Was done by these oyster sociables
in bringing the young people together,
and taking their minds from the wick
thoughts in different channels, one Of
the old t0mcats in the basket gave q
''depmeow" that sounded like the vail
of lost soul or a challenge to battle. l
told my chum that we wouldn't hold
the broadboard over the c.othes-basket
mach longer. when two or three cats be-
gan to howl. and the minister stopped
talking and pa told ma to open the
stair door and tell the hired girl to see
what was the matter up there. She
thought that our cat had got shut up in
the storm door. and she opened the
stair door to yell to the girl. and then l
pushed the clothes basket, oats and all,
down the back stairs. Well, sir, | s'pOse
no committee for an oyster supper WAS
ever more astonished. l heard ma fall
over willow rocking chair and say
scat and heard pa say Well, fm
damd,' and girl that sings in the choir
say 'Hevens, I'm stabbed then we
run to the front Of the house and come
down the front stairs looking AS innO-
cent as could be, and We went to the
library and was Just going to tell pa if
there were any errands he wanted to
run, my chum aud me was Just aching
to run them, when yellow cat without
any tail was walking over the minister,
and pa was throwing hassock at two
oats that we're clawing each other under
the piano. and una was trying to get her
frizzes back on her head, and the choir
girl was standing on the lounge with her
dress pulled up trying to scare oats with
her striped stockings, and the commit
tee broke mp. Well, to tell. the honest
TRUTH pa knew had something TO do
with the muss, and basted me and yank-
ed me round until had to have my arm
in sling, but what's the use of making
such fuss about a fe cats. Ma said
she never wanted to have any company
again, cause spoiled everything. But
got even with pr for basting me this
morning, and dissent 90 home. You
SEQ ma had got a great big bath spsnge,
As big as a chair cushion, and this
morning l took the sponge and filled
it with warm water, and took the
feather cushion out of the chair
pa sits in at the table, and put the
sponge in the place, and covered Il
We all got sot down to the table pa
come in and sat Gown on it to ask q
blessing. He started it by closing bis
eyes and placing his hsnds up in front
of him like a letter v, and then he be.
gan TO ask that the food which We were
about to partake Of be blessed, and
then he WAS going ON to ask that all OF
rs be made TO see the error Of our ways
when hs began to hitch. around. and he
opened his eyes and looked at me, and
looked AZ pious as boy can look when
he knows the pancakes are gett ng GOLD
and pa hs kind of sighed and said
Amen" sort Of snappish, aud got Or
and told ma he didn't feel we'll, and shl
would have 10 take his place aud pass
around the sassiee and potatoes. AND
he looked kind ofescart aud went Oui
with his hand on his pistol pocket. Al
though he would like to shoot, and ms
she got mp aud vent around and sit in
pas chair. The sponge didn't hole
moro than half pailful Of
water, and / didn't want to play M
Joke on ma, cause the cats nearly brok,
her up, but she sat down, and was JUS
going to help me, when abs rung thu
bell and called the hired girl, and sale
she felt az th Jugh her neuralgia VA
coming ON, and she would 20 20 bel
room, and told the girl 70 sit down anG
help Heunsry. The girl sat down anC
poured me Out some coffee, and then sht
said: 'Howiy st. Patrick, but blav,
those pancakes are burning and she
went out in the kitchen. I drank my
coffee and then took the big sponge ou
of the chair and pot the cushion in tn,
place Of it, and then pat the sponge IL
She bath room, and then vent into pr
and mas room and asked them II
should 60 after q doctor, and pa haS
changed his clothes and got ON his Son
day pants, and he said: Never mind th,
doctor, Quess We sill pull Oh, ough.' ant
for me 20 60 out and 20 the devil; 90
came over here. Say, there il NO haril
| in little warm water. Ia theref Well
I'd like to knox what pa and ma ant
the hired girl thought. ! am the oui,
real healthy one there u in our family
| ~-~----
A young convert. who wrote fol
spiritual advice To Mrs. Van Cott
was considerably astonishcd TO re
ceive the following directions for hi'
way of life: ''Sew the skirt To tlsl
belt; hasten three plaits, turning
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