The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-29

aaked; care you his mudder98 and
receiving a negative answers: aDon't
he want you to be his mudder?" Poor
Adaml He would gladly have answered.
Jes if he could not have her otherwise;
Aat KIT followed up this question with
to him: Does he get ipn1 ame-
Emes2s And amid enB.
caused bg this ae56sda uuefvs ther.
arrived at the farm, and all went in to
meet Tho widow. She objected seri-
onsiy; she did pt 50 much mind the
but She lad a natural horror
q cats and could not stand the kit
ten, but Kit and Jenny could not be
parted. Millicent begged for both, and
at least coaxed for the cat, but in re,
Spouse to all her efforts Kits only In
swer was to sidle up to Adam and say
decidedly: yves goin' to stay wifi
you" And they did stay.
During the weeks that followed the
footpath between the farms became
again well worn. MiIly and Kit were
firm friends. It was Milly who made
her new clothes, Milly with whom she
spent good portion of each day, Milly
who curled her hair and petted her
cat, and she grew very fond Of her.
But it was Adam who had her warm
est regards Grader ADAM" as Milly
had taught her to say), and she went
back to him every night IL by any
chance he did not come to her.
between Kit and the Widow Wells
there was no love, and the eat had been
a continual grief. At last there came
a day when it distinguished itself and
brought about an end Of the trouble.
Since the day when Adam, coming sud
denly into the kitchen, had found the
housekeeper, with nervous horror on
her countenance, mounted on d chair
while the kitten rubbed, purring,
against its legs, he had tried to keen
1t out of the house; but the cat, like its
mistress, knew its own mind, and its
special delight was the kitchen hearth.
On the day in question it Law there.
stretched at full length in comfort.
while Kit was playing near by. Mrs.
Wells came in and stopped down to
look at some pies that were baking
in the oven. The kitten, with a pIav-
ful purr, sprang to her shoulder and
began rubbing its head against her.
In a frenzy of fear she flung it from
her and it struck in its. descent the
handle of a saucepan which was full
OF boiling water, upsetting it over it.
self, the widow and Kit. The outcries
OF the three brought Adam in haste
from a nearby field, to find Mrs. Wells
with a badly-scalded foot, while Kit,
with n hand wrapped in her apron,
carrying the yowling kitten in the
other, had started acrocc the field Ia
MlIhcent, the tears streaming down
her cheeks as she went.
First helping Mrs. Wells, whose in.
jury was severe, and calling some one
to wait upon her, he started after Kit
ana arrived just in time to see her
throw herself into Millicent's Ian and
near her exclaim between her sobs:
on, Milly! Do tum and be our mud
der! We wants you sol Adam and I
does-please tum and take care of us!"
And dropping on the settle beside them
he found voice to say: eyes, do come
and take care of US, MiIIy, we wan YOU
scat least Adam does. Will You.
Milly?"
Later in the evening when the burns
OF Kit and the cat had been dressed
and they were both sleeping, and Adam
mad explained that he had rather have
neE as a wife than as a mother, happy
Mlny SAID TO him: "You stupid old
Adam! I believe you never would have
told me if it hadn't been for Kit" Then
seriously: Let's keep her always,
Adam. I could not bear to think of
her going back to that awful life
agreed heartily. And SO it came
that when shortly after this Adam
brought Milly home to take care of
him and his, Kit, dressed in white and
looking very different from the New
York wait, divided bonors with the
bride. And the kitten, decorated with
elaborate pink bow, stretched itself
~undisputed possession on the kitchen
hearth.-N. Y. Tribune.