The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
stPINKEY.O

Two very small boys and sorTowful
little girl came ont of the garden door
of an old-fashioned house on Pleasant
avenue the other day. The boys car
ried a small box and the little girl a toy
spade. They moved solemnly back un-
der the elm trees, and when near the
garden wall they paused. The boys
dug hole few feet deep and laid the
b, < in it. The other child held her
apron to her face and wcpt. They were
very mattcr-of-fact boys and piled the
earth over the box in a business-like
way. Every time tho earth struck the
box q 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 (sobJ buried (anotksr
sob) Pinkey there. y
Who was Pinkey? Pinkey was a 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 bv a 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. ! must say" continued the
little girl. ''that she was always very
wild pussy cat, and l often told her that
consumption or some terrible disease
would be her end. She was lust the
same rs other kittens, only noticed
that at Il 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 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 l saw her looking
out | would always take her in my
arms, give her all the yarn I could find
for her to play with and all the milk
she could drink. 1t was useless. She
would 90 again and again to the win
dow and one day she went out
'.Shc 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 I feel glad when
she did come back, and gave her a big
saucerful of milk and the very best warn
in the house. She was good pussy
then for long while, and it was not
for a month ;,fterward 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 ana erred as though her heart would
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