The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
HOW BEAasBEAsEn GREW B1e.
How Jimmy O'NeilI Was Taught I'd
Mind His Manners o., f.,-s4-..

| mind His Manners on Christmas
The little girls were much excited oyer
the unpa,cking OF the magic lantern Their
two uncies had brought home with ig,e,n
christmas eve The uncles and iJhe IAN
9 lam lau az arrived rh2r morning, and tine
lruote girls were hardly able TO wait
ului might, when the two uncles were
10 give private exhibition in the raar-
lot: j, The lantern was ready at fast,
and the MtItle alrQS were about to ia le
seats before the screen, wnen the sound r,
OF a caterWauialg hoated in the window
from the garden.
oh. there's Beannbeaser," cried all
unree little S'lrsS all once.
Who is BealmbeaSer?' asked ftf,e eIf1er
OF Inc TWO uncles, who were quite young
l1ote5, in itneT freshman year in college,
in fact. =
He is our cat" replied the largest lit
WHY do you call him Beambeaser?
asked the younger uncle.
,s.,., Mny, ITS nus MAINS" said the smallest
can hmm Beambeaser. if it. wasn't his
He'll get hurt moaned the second
"How's THAT" asked the younger
You see. THAT horrid Jimmy o'Neill
lives opposite, and he catches Beam
6easer and wnaps him and pulls his tail.
BeaInpeaser is SO tame that he goes up
TO everybody. Those bad cats are fight
ing, ana Beambeaser is out there watch
ing them, for he never fights himself,
he's so good. Jimmy O'NeiH will come
sneaking over and the other cats will
run, and he will catch Beambeaser and
hurt MIN. just wish Beanlbe2Sar
would grow big when Jimmy gets there -
Crew big! What do you mean by
'that?"
You see, Cousin Ed says Beambeaser
isn't nice ait ali. He says he is just q
little tiger, and that If he Should grow
Dig IKE a tiger, he would be fieUce ano
eat US all up. Ed says ne pu1rs AKA is
atfectdonajte just because he is IJctle and
can huft US, ami wants his dinner, but
if ne should get big, he wlouldln't be af-
COUSIN Jack doesn't believe than ait
ALL" remarked the smallest girl. He
says we would eat BeamSeaser if he
We're good ITO est like chicken"
Il just wish he would get big and eat
that horTid Jimmy O'Neiil," said tins
largest girl
Il wod7der if we can't see him." sal4
the younger uncle, and he p5tnted the
rays this way and that, until presently
the great circle of light rested upon {
large sheet h2nSlng down from a clc'.he.s
line in the next yard, the bottom part Oh
it lying upon The top OF the garden wall
Sitting upon the Wall and the sheet wa.
a small tiger cat.
There he isl said the three l5ttl.
girls.
DO you think Jimmy o'Neill will COM
over after Beambeaser ,on C.hrfsl1nial
eve?' asked the elder uncle.
He always does said the three little
'@rhen we will have Beambeaser grow
big. Bob. wish you would get over
behind the wall. When that boy comes
into the yard, want you to whistle.
I will flash the light and show Beam
beaser, and then turn lit off; jerk Beam
beaser from the wall as soon as turn
off the light. Then we will have Beam
beaser grow big and scare that boy,
though l can't promise that he will eat
the boy
To the little girls ait the window 1T
seemed a very long time before the gar
den gate creaked and their uncle wis
tied. The light flashed out, and there
was Beambealser sitting on the wall
against the sheet, and a small red
headed boy in front of him. The light
shone out again, and there was a ter
rlble tiger sitting where Beambeaser had
been, against the sheet, rolling his eyes,
opening his mouth, and flashing his tail.
The small boy stood motionless, deprived
by fear of the power ITO move. Sud-
denly, terrible growls and SCREAMS broke
forth and the small boy found the use
of his legs and ran precipitately. min
CLING his OWL terrified shrieks with the
growls and screams of the tiger. The
light and the tiger vanished, and pretty
soon the younger uncle came in laugh
ing, with Beambeaser in his arms.
" He is small again." said he, passing
the cat to the SMALLEST girl. How Cid
you like my growing and screaming
That was the only touch needed to make
the tiger realistic. It was a genuine
Christmas eve miracle
1t was hard for the little girls to be-
lieve that the tiger on the wall HAD been
nothing more than a picture thrown
The tiger with rolling eyes and laslring
tail, was not the only animated picture
in the uncle's collection. There was an
alligator THAT swallowed a. pickaninny, a
cat that ate a rat, and a dnokey that
threw dts rider Five times during the
evening did THE little girls call for the
tiger, and were satisfied with only once
beholding the Capitol at Washington and
Niagara Fails by moonlight, which the
uncies considered the finest pictures IN
their possession.
W. A. CURTIS.