The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-16
THE JUMPING KANGAROO AND
THE APPLE BUTTER CAT.
by JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON.
coDyrtsA,. 1900. BY Mcclure. Pnarip, q Co.

Copv,igh, 1900, by Mcclure. PhRiip, q Co.
Green-eyeS. tho cat, was very angry when
he found that the man thought that he could
not catch mice, lie was afraid that he would
be put out in the kennel with the dog. He
and the dog had never been very good f-Ssnds
and he did not like the idea 81 being In the same
house with All animal with such sharp teeth
and such a harsh voice.
Green-eyes used 10 lit M all night with his
paw on his head, saying, let me think" '"he
neighbors' cats came out on the back fence
and made fun Of Green-eyes all night long.
IT'S too bad, they meowed, that you can
not see in the dark. Why. you cannot even
see a big white rabbit,
Gray Mouse and his friend White Rabbit
went every night to the cellar Of the mans
house, where they helped themselves TO cake
aud apple pie and cheese and carrots. Green
eyes heard the man say that 1t was time to
drown that good-ror-nothing cat. lie saw 10
was time for him to do something Ia save his
life, and so he kept on thinking and thinking.
lie craNled under a pile of carrots on the Gel
lar floor one night and the carrots fel! all over
him and hid him all except the. tp Of his tail.
Then he waited for White Rabbit and Gray
Mouse.
Now. that night Patrick O,Possum went to
visit Gray Mouse ana White Rabbit. He was
a friend Of Gray Mouse's cousin. Field Mouse,
and whenever he went under the barn floor
where Gray Mouse and White Rabbit lived,
Gray Mouse" asked Patrick O'Possum, do
you know. w2ere | can get any good sweep
Gray Mouse winked at White Rabbit and said
that he knew where there were sweet potatoes
nearly q, foot long and so sweet that sugar
tasted IKE vinegar compared TO them. Pat-
rick Postum sighed and looked happy.
III take you TO the next moonlight party /
have he said. If YOU viii show me where | can
So Patrick OPOssum, GRAY Mouse and White
Rabbit went running and hopping and laugh
ing, to the cellar of the mans house. Patrick
OPossum turned 10 Gray Mouse and White
Rabbit after he had taken a good look around
the cellar. and then he smiled and smiled
Il like sweet potatoes very much" he whia-
pered as he drew White Rabbit and Gray Mouse
close 70 him, but ! would not give a cente
btshel. Tor all the carrots in the world II
had white fur and long ears I would rather
e-chew those carrots over there than chew
them.
Then Patrick O'Possum poked GRAY Mouse
and White Rabbit in the ribs and laughed inside.
The sweet potatoes were in a large swinging
box near the pile OF carrots. Patrick OPos-
sum Jumped up and got OH top OF the box,
them do down ." on the the floor SSfe' EGHSSHit. e Ras Sba p pHssea
while Gray Mouse stood by There wasa
long shelf above the swinging box where the
sweet potatoes were and on this shelf were
Jars OF Jelly and jam and spiced watermelon
ablg iar, OF, apple butter After Patrick oPos-
sum had thrown down all the sweet potatoes
that he wanted he crept along the shelf and
gave the jar Of apple butter a hard push. 1t
fell. struck the edge OF the sweet potato bin,
broke all 10 pieces and apple butter and broken
lar and all fell right on top Of the pile Of carrots.
There were the queerest sounds which came
out OF that pile Of carrots that you ever heard.
Green Eyes Ineowed and cried and kicked and
arched up his back, lie shook up that pile ~
carrots as though there was an earthuuake
in the cellar. Then, all covered over with apple
butter and little carrots and bits Of broken
crock. he went up the cellar stairs yelling and
screaming at every step.
White Rabbit and Patrick O'Possum picked
up all the sweet potatoes that they could carry
and ran away 10 the barn. GRAY Mouse led
the way. As they hurried along they got a
glimpse OF the man who was coming down
the hall in his night clothes with a gun over his
shoulder Just as the White Rabbit. the Grav
Mouse and Patrick O'Possum scampered under
the barn floor they heard bang-bang from the
porch Of the mans house.
That must have been a shotcnn,- said
White Rabbit, as he stroked his whiskers and
smiled.
Tim. um." said Patrick O'Possum, but
these, are good sweet potatoes. This IS more
fun than a coon hunt
Green Eyes lever went back To the mans
house again Many Of his friends thought
that the man had shot him and the next night.
out on the back yard fence, all the neighbors'
cats met together and sang his funeral song.
] think, though. that Green Eyes was not killed.
One day when | was out hunting in the woods
/ stopped to take n drink AT a little spring and
a FUNNY little lizard stood on the edge and
said Excuse me, Mr. Hunter, but did you
ever see an apple butter cat?"