The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
"PINKEY."

flNhEN.
Two very small boys and sorrowful
little girl came out of the garden door
avenue the other day. The boys car
ried small box and the little girl toy
spade. They moved solemnly back I'M
der the elm trees, and when near the
garden wall they paused. The boys
dug q hole n few feet deep and laid the
box in it. The other child held her
apron to her face and wept. They were
very matter-of-fact boys and piled the
earth over the box in business-like
way. Every time the earth struck the
box great sob broke from under the
apron. 1t was all over soon and when
the young lady with the brown eyes
and dark hair asked the little girl why
she was crying, she took the apron from
her tear-stained eyes and said:
''They have (sob) buried (another
sob) Pinkey there"
Who was Pinkeyp Pinkey was pussy
cat, and its life and history were very
dear to the members of the infantile
funeral party.
Pinkey, every one thought, had never
done anything very remarkable in her
life, and her DEATH occasioned by Sc
we're cold, was certainly sufficiently
commonplace not to have attracted very
wide attention.
1--WE got Pinkey," said the little girl,
''when she was, oh, so small. She was
so small that she could not see, and at
first we thought she had been born
blind. They told us that all pussy cats
were born blind, but we would never
believe that Pinkey would see until one
morning her eyes were wide open, and
they were pink eyes, so we called her
Pinkey. L must say" continued the
little girl. "that she was always very
wild pussy cat, and | often told her that
consumption or some terrible disease
would be her end. She was Just the
same rs other kittens, only noticed
that at a very early age she used to sit
ut the window and look out in the
yard. She would sit sometimes for
hours and hours that way, and l came
to the conclusion that she must have
heard my brother talking about going
to sea and hunting bears, and that she
too, had made up her mind to see the
world. So whenever saw her looking
out would always take her in my
arms, give her all the yarn could find
for her to play with and all the milk
she could drink. 1t was useless. She
would 60 again and again to the win
dow, and one day she went out.
''She didn't come home that night or
the next, and waited and watched and
hoped that nothing had happened to
her. And oh, didn't feel glad when
she did come back, and gave her big
saucerful of milk and the very best yarn
in the house. She was a good pussy
then for long while, and it was not
for q month afterward that / saw her
again at the window. A great fear
came over me and l led her away; but
she went out again and again every
night, and only came back in the morn
ings. One day she killed tiny mouse
and Immediately ran with it to the door
and cried us though her heart would
break to be allowed to go out. ] opened
the door and away she ran with the
mouse over the fence, and she did not
return for week. Her eyes were red,
too, and she seemed very thin. The
next day Pinkey caught another mouse,
and 1 cried, %, Georgia! Georgie do
follow Pinkey and see where she goes
He ran down the garden and sprang
over the wall, but when he got into the
churchyard beyond. all he could see
was the snip of Pinkey's tail going
round the corner Every day after that
George tried to follow her, but couldn't,
and so | staid ut the church corner, and
one afternoon | saw Pinkey come dash
ing by with little brown mouse in her
mouth. ran behind her and saw her
90 under the church, and there / lost
her. went into the church-yard, I'M
der the great dark floor of the church,
and searched all around for Pinkey.
There is q boiler in the church for
heating it on Sunday, and down by its
side heard q pussy's voice that knew
was Pinkey's. l hurried there and,
would you believe it, lying on little
straw was Pinkey. could sec by her
eyes that she was dying. Lying on the
straw, too, was another little pussy that
had been born the same day as Pinkey,
and had fallen off fence and broken
her leg. She was Pinkey's sister, and
so knew that my pussy had been saw
ing all her mice and dainties to give
her lame sister under the church floor.
They died there that day, poor Pinkey
from being out late at night, and papa
says her sisters leg must have become
inflamed and caused her death. We
buried them in the same box. Dear,
Dear! Where shall l ever get such an
other pussyp"
So the little maid spoke, and the lady
with the brown eyes took her into the
house, and there were tears in her eyes.
TOM " lSfo~