Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-23

mouse in it. Ugh, it gives me the
creeps to think of it, even yet" and she
shrugged her shoulders.
You have plenty of other things,
haven't you?" he inquired with an air
of submission.
Goodness knows whether I have or
not. Shem's wife caught a behemoth
IN the potato bin in the cellar this
morning and she had a perfectly dread
iul time driving it out. l haven't been
down TO see what shape it left things
In. Yesterday when Japheth was help
ing me rid up the attic a hyena and
two foxes came poking up there seek
ing what they might deyour l suppose,
though there wasn't anything there
except a lot of onions spread On the
floor to keep them"
Maybe the foxes came up after the
birds we've got stored there he said
timidly.
81 wouldn't care If they did get the
birds. They scatter seed all over the
floor and I had to move q car load of
cabbage heads day before yesterday to
keep them from destroying it entirely.
The night YOU had trouble with that
walking delegate. and didn't get in
until So late. l was almost scared to
death, by what ! thought was burg
lars in the parlor, and l sent Ham down
to see what it was and what do you
think?"
q don't think, my dear" he laughed
softly.
We'll. he found an ichthyosaurus in
there playing ball with the briC-abrac
and making wreck of everything.
The great big, nasty brute" she con-
cluded tearfully.
I'VE can get more after we go ashore,
my dear he said, soothingly.
Il don't know where we will set it,
she whimpered.
IF we don't" he smiled, eve will at
least have the comfort Of knowing that
we haven't any neighbors better"
There's some comfort in that" she
replied, with the true womanly in
stinct. "At the same time | can't help
thinking what q time is before me,
with that megatherium in the base
ment. the two elephants in the second
story front, the giraues out on the back
stOOp, where they won't bump their
heads. the boa constructor in q barrel
in the kitchen and everything scatter
ed everywhere over the house. Thank
goodness. We haven't got a hired girl,
or there wouldn't be any living in the
house at all
You ought to be glad, my dear,
that YOU have something TO be thank
full for. he said in doubtful tones.
Il am, but there are some things
one can't forget To-day when came
I'm with those gOssamers YOU said we
had better have, Shem's and Hams
two boys had a pair of goats hitched
TO the tail Of one of those ugly wild
cats and were dragging it backward
up stairs. My, my, YOU ought to have
seen that stair carpet! And the racket.
Well. it was perfectly awful
Carpets will be cheap when we land
again said Noah.
And Japheth'5 little girl" continued
his wife. not needing the interruption,
went up into the spare rooms where
YOU have put those bright feathered
birds tin you can give them permanent
| perches. and when I found her she had
pulled out half a bushel of their tail
feathers and had her hat trimmed with
as many of them as she could stick on
it. She was a sight to behold And
the good woman sighed YEARLY.
Not any worse than the birds
! reckon" griDned her husband, giving
/ his knee an extra rub.
mo but the birds can't be treated
| that way. It's cruelty to animals
"I guess it won't hurt them, my
dear" he said philosophically.
Perhaps not. She insisted on turn
( ing a pair of foxes in with them, after
/ she got all the feathers she wanted
She said the foxes hadn't had any fun
since we had caught them
Noah laughed heartily as he thought
Of the child.
She'll be turning the monkeys in
with the parrots next he said, and
then well have a time you read about.
It's dreadful, perfectly dreadful, SO
It is" she went on, and goodness only
knows how I'm ever going to worry
| through with it,"
Just then there was q terrific bang
QOWuStllH SVAi4NN iASA N' anu -''''4i
sprang TO his feet.
you go and see what the matter is
now" said his wife, with the calmness
Of desperation.
He hurried away and in few min
utes came back laughing.
"Well?' she inquired.
ooh. it's only that lubberly glypto-
don falling down the dumb waiter.
HAMS wife chased it ont of the dining
room where it was chewing up the
tablecloth and I guess the behemoths
in the basement are having fun with
it,
"And I'll bet a cookie" exclaimed
his wife. they'll pull that clothes line
down and Just ruin the weeks wash, but
] don't care; I'm too tired to move hant;
or foot Listen to them. For goodness
sake. Noah. go down and stop them
NO. my dear, he replied. Let them
have it out. They'll have to get used
TO each other anyway, and they'll never
learn younger
"NIv. my, sighed his wife, i almost
wish it wouldn't rain and the two old
folks again relapsed into silence and
sat quietly on deck in the rhickening
twilight. thinking, thinking, thinking.
And the next day it rained.-W. J.
hampton. in ST. Louis Republic.
AN APPEAL.
"PaDa" said Jennie, climbing upon