The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-06-09
CAT. BOY IN A
One Little Touch That Upset the Cain
and Peace or a Whole
Household.

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In room No. 2 OF the general post
Office building there H. u OF tie Oldest
ana most esteemed postal employees
IN this city. lie is noted for his genial
temperament. and 50, when he entered
the Office yesterday looking gium and
replicd grufly 10 saluta'ions, every
body wondered what was the matter.
whats up, old man?' inquired a
clerk. "You look as if you had lost
you mother-in-law."
"Mothcr-in-law be durnedi' replied
the erstwhile genial one, tits a cat.
say, do Won want 10 hear a hard-luck
story? Wen, you've seen a nice, sleek
fat cat asleep. haven't you? Pleasing
feature Of domesticity. isn't 1T? Dld
YOU ever see o well-hrowncd custard
praidnr set 20 cool In a nicely secured
pan? Appctizing. amt IL? Like emf
dren, do YOU? Bright, rosy, healthy
f~our-year-old boy, for instance? All OF
these things are nice IN their way, amt
they? Have a suggestiveness OF home
and all that sort of thing. lou never
saw a cat. a boy and a custard pudding
brought into. into-wcll. let's call II
unfclicitous c~ontiguity, did you? Wen
Just listen TO me.
yesterday afternoon my wife made
n custard pudding and put IL on the
kitchen table TO cool. We've got a cat,
and il took It into its head TO 20 TO sleep
on the floor Just in front Of the table
where the pudding was. In the mean
while my wife went into one or the
middle rooms Of the fat and began
fitting a dress on my daughter. The
two of 'em were singing away together,
the mother thinking how pretty the
girl would look in the dress and the
girl thinking OF the pleasures Of the
part. for which the dress was being
made. when something happened.
..You see, that boy Of mine wandered
into the kitchen and, looking around.
he began considering the comparative
amount Of entertainment to De derived
from pulling the cats tell and digging
in the coal scuttle with n silver fork he
had picked up. when his eye fell upon
the custard. Now. the pan containing
/. il was near the edge OF the table, and
the boy could just reach the top OF the
nan. but he lacked some inches TO err
able him TO look into it. What easier
. than 10 tip up the pan? lie did so, has
foot slipped. and in less time than IL
takes to tell il the cat had about q
!, quart Of hot custard soaking through
|, its fur. The cat had been lying just
beneath where the custard stood. ycr
: see. but when the boy upset the pud'
r ding that cat did not remain. On thf
! contrary, 1t rose up with a prolonged
) and awful yowl. Then il turned severa
I complicated somersaults, APPARENTLY
+ stood for a second on the end OF 1T
I tail, and then dashed into the mex
q room. brushing against the girl an'
5 leaving several picturesque s7lashel
Z OF yellow custard upon the dainty lla'
] dress being fitted upon her. Two fem
g mime shrieks arose. and then there va
q general activity. The daughter sough
3 To capture the cat, the mother eylnce
n a warming desire TO lay hands on IN
bow. The chase proceeded through tn
2 fat. and finally the boy took refug
II under a bed.
q .'Oh. won't spank you.' the mothe
q said through her set teeth as sh
q grasped for the youngsters legs. Hu
: something had happened 10 the DO,
= for a wall came smotheringly to tn
h mothers ears. She bent down TO se'
=, and then
/, .sOh. what shall we do?' she erie,
!. sWillie's caught his head in th
springs
and while mother and daughta
.rawled under the bed To extr.cate n
hoy from his plight. the cat proceede
= to the kitchen. Tapped its fill of no
), cool custard. and hied itself To n sunni
!. window sill To resume its interrupte
=. slumbers.
That's the story; that's what's II
Il matter with me" concluded the ers
]. while genial one. Did you ever hear
a household so upset?'-N. \. sun.