Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-05


little moan:
ooh, [ wish | could find nice gravel stonem
"Now see here called the mother, from the
green garden PATCH
"lf you want any breakfast, just come here
and scratch"'
And here is the last letter from Dorothy
Whitefoot
DEAR CHILDREN
promised to tell you the rest about Jacinta
in this letter and not make you wait any more:
so | will do just as | said which is good way
for kittens as well as for boys and girls.
Well. that night it rained, and Jacinta
crawled under some stairs that led up onto
roof from very dirty yard: the door in the
fence was off its hinges, so she had GENE in
and was trying to find something to eat, when
it began to rain.
The stairs were old and the rain leaked
down and it got all wet under them, so She
was almost as wet as if there hadn't been any
stairs over her,
1t seemed to Jacinta as though it never
would be light again, and the rain kept fall
ing and falling; finally she could see that the
day was really coming, but she was so weak
and lame and so faint from hunger that she
crouched where she was for long time and
didn't try to move.
When at last She crawled slowly out it was
still raining little, and she was so wet that
her fur was all plastered down to her skin.
She limped along the road close to the high
fences until she came to the street, and then
she stood there looking up at the people who
hurried by in the cold wind, hoping that
someone would pick her up and take her
where it was warm, and give her something
to eat, for she was sure now that she should
never get to her home again.
While she was standing in this way, some
times giving a weak little cry up to the
people who paid no attention to her, she saw
a dog coming down the street: she hoped he
wouldn't see her, but he did, and made Il
rush for her. and barked in "a terrible way
as he came leaping on.
She gave a wild look around for somebody
to protect her. and then rushed with all the
strength she had toward tree that was
growing right up out of the bricks on the
sidewalk. She was so weak that she nearly
fell back right into the dogs teeth as he
leaped up after her, but she just managed
toclmb to the first limb and cling there ont
of his reach.
As she chung some boys came along, and
she hoped they would call the dog away. but
as soon as they saw the dog leaping and bark
ing at the tree, one of them shouted
"Oh! Don's freed cat"
"Sic-im, Dom. called another.
This made the dog Jump higher than ever
and bark louder, and Jacinta was just begin
ming to think she couldn't hold on any longer
ana to wonder why everyone seemed to hate
her and hunt her So when she heard voice
shouting to the boys;
Calls off dat dog"
A man had just come out of store on the
corner and saw what the boys were doing.
They all looked around, and he came up and
caught the dog by the collar
"Ain't you shame you boys?" said the
man. "Nou takes leetle cat You hat You
funs some oder way! You gifts away nit
dat dog"
suppose you have guessed that this man
was Carl. ! think he must have forgotten
about the broom; but perhaps it was because
he remembered it,
He made the boy that owned the dog take
hold of his collar and take him away, and he
reached up with his long arms and took
Jacinta down from the limb.
''Vat Miss Susie tink? YAH" Jacinta heard
him say as he took out big red handker-
chief and wiped her off with it., and then
wrapped it around her. He had on a sort of
loose blue coat, that buttoned up in front
with belt at the bottom. He just unbuttoned