The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-14
.sPINKEY..

Two very small bows and n sorrowful
little girl came out OF the garden door
Of an old-fashioned house. on Pleasant
avenue the other dat. The boys car
ried a small box and the little girl toy
spade. They moved >olemnly back un-
der the elm trees. and when near the
garden wall they paused. The boys
dug hole few iect deep and laid the
box in il. The other child held her
apron to her face aud wept- They were
very matter-of-fact BOYS aud piled the
earth over the box in business-like
way. Every time the earth struck the
box a 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 (sobl buried (another
sob) Pinkey there.
Who was Pinkey? Pinkey was pussy
cat, and its life and history were very
dear to the members of the infantile
funeral party
Pinkey. every cne thought. had never
done anything very remarkable in her
life. and her death. oeeasioned bv a Sc
we're cold, was certainly sufficiently
commonplace not 10 have attracted verv
wide attention.
I'VE 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
We're born blind. bat we would never
believe that Pin&ey would see until one
morning her eyes were wide open. and
they were pink ewes. so we called her
Pinkey. | 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
at the window and look out in the
yard She would sit sometimes for
hours and hours that way. and | came
to the conclusion that she must have
heard my brother talking about going
10 sea and hunting bears. and that she
too. had made up her mind 10 see the
world. So whenever | saw her looking
out l 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 Ii was useless. She
would go 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
saueerful of milk and the very best warn
in the house. She was a good pussy
then for long while, and it was not
for month afterward that | saw her
again Mt the window A great fear
came over me and led her away; but
she went out again and again every
night, and only came back in the morn
ings. One day she killed a tiny mouse
and Immediately ran with it to the door
and cried as though her heart would
break to be allowed to 60 out | opened
the door and away she ran with the
mouse over the fence. and she did not
return for a week. Her ewes were red,
too, and she seemed very thin. The
next day Pinkey caught another mouse,
and | cried, %, Gcorgiel Georgiel 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 Mt the church corner, and
one afternoon | saw Plnkey come DASH
ing by with little brown mouse in her
mouth. | ran behind her and saw her
60 under the church, and there lost
her. | went into the church-yard, un-
der the great dark floor of the church,
and searched all around for Piukey.
There is boiler in the church for
heating it on Sunday, and down by its
side | heard pussy voice that knew
was Pinkey's. | hurried there and.
would You believe it, lying on a little
straw was Pinkey / could see by her
eyes that she was dying. Lying on the
straw, too. was another little pussy that
bad 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
infamed and caused her death. We
buried them in the same box. Dear,
Dear! Where shall ever get such an
other pussy?'
So the little maid spoke, and the lady
with the brown eyes took her into the
house, and there were tears in her eyes,
too.-N J. star.