Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-13
CAT AND CUSTARD.
One Touch That Upset the Calm and
Peace of II Whole Household.

One Touch That Upset the Calm and
Peace of Whole Household.
In room > of the general poStoffice
building there is one of the oldest and
most esteemed postal employees in this
city. says the New York sun. He is
noted for his genial temperament, and so,
when he entered the office recently look
ing glrun and replied gruffly to saluta-
tions, everybody wondered what was the
matter.
whats up, old mans" inquired clerk.
''You look as if you had lost your moth
er-in-law''
Mother-in-law be durned!" replied the
erstwhile genial one Its IA cat. Say,
do you want to hear Il. hard luck story.
Well, you've seen nice, sleek, fat cap
asleep, haven't you2 Pleasing feature of
dumesEicity, isn't it? Did you ever see II
well Drowned custard pudding set to cool
in Il nicely secured pan? Appetizing,
ism it: Like children, do you? Bright,
rosy, healthy 4-year-old boy, for instance?
All of these things are nice in their way,
ain t they? Have a suggestiveness of home
and all that sort of thing You never saw
q cat. boy and a custard pudding
brought into-into-well, let's call it un
felicitous contiguity, did you? Well, just
listen to me-
1.-The other afternoon my wife made a
custard pudding and put it on the kitchen
table to cool. We've got Il cat, and it took
it into its head to go to sleep on the floor
just in front of the table where the pud-
ding was In the meanwhile my wife went
into one of the middle rooms of the fiat and
haUa,, "a 5rpSs on NV dam uhter Tho
two of 'em were singing away together,
the mother thinking how pretty the girl
would look in the dress and the girl think
ing of the pleasures of the party for which
the dress was being made, when some
thing happened.
You see, that boy OF mine wandered
into the kitchen, and, looking around he
began considering the comparative amount
of entertainment TO be derived from pull
ing the cal : tail and digging in the coal
scuttle with Il silver fork he had picked up,
when his eye fell upon the custard Now,
the pan containing it was near the edge of
the table, and the boy could just reach the
top Of the pan. but he lacked some inches
to enable him to look into it, What easier
than to tip up the pan? He did so, his
foot slipped, and in less time than it takes
to tell it the cat had about quart of hot
custard soaking through its fur. The cat
had been lying just beneath where the Gus
tard stood, you see, but when the boy up
set the pudding that cat did not remain.
On the contrary, it rose mp with q pro
longed and awful yowl. Then it turned
several complicated somersaults, apparent
ly stood for second on the end of its tail
and then dashed into the next room, brush
ing against the girl ard leaving several
picturesque splashcs of ycllcw custard
upon the dainty lilac dress being fitted
upon her. Two feminine shrieks arose,
and then there was general activity.
oh, won't l spank youn the mother
said through her set teeth as she grasped
for the youngsters legs, but something
had happened TO the boy, for a wall came
smotheringly to the mothers ears. She
bent down TO see, and then
'''Oh, what shall we do:' she cried
'Willie's caught his head fHthe springs
And while mother and daughter crawl
ed under the bed to 'extricate the boy from
his plight the cat proceeded to the kitchen,
tapped its FL of the now cool custard and
hied itself to a sunny window sill to re
sumo lis interrupted slumbers
That's the story. That's what's tho
matter with me- concluded the crstwhile
genial one. Did you ever hear of /; house
hold 80 upset"