The daily Republican., 1902-11-15


O. the fish and passed 'em back to
her kitten on the log, and gobbled
the rest o. the handful herself.
They tickled her palate so that she
dabbed both paws down in the wa
ter and brung up mess o young
catfish in each one, and her and the
kitten got away with them and
smacked their lips.
"Then l looked little closer and
l seen the old catfish that had
rescued her family from the holhr
stump. She was Iayin' by the leg,
lookin' scared, and | seen that most
of her family o young ones was
missin'.
THAT cat says I, is swoopin'
that catfish's family off the face o.
the earth, so to speak says I, 'as
sure as wasps astingin'!' says /.
'The old catfish hadn't jest got on
to what was goin' on yit, but when the
yaller cat on the log reached down and
scooped out another handful of the
catfishs family and divide up with her
kitten, that old catfish actually turned
white around the gills.
"She seen it all at last, and with one
all-wollopin' slash of her tail she
jumped onto that log like britchy
cow goin' over "a barnyard fence, and
Je-e-ewillikens boraX! maybe she
didn't swat that yaller cat She swept
that yaller cat off O. that log as if she
hadn't been nothin' more than
feather.
'"Iheu the catfish stepped back into
the water and waited to see. The val
Ter cat scrambled back on to the log,
and her dander was up as high as it
could git. Oh, but she was mad.
"She pranced up and down the log
minute, and at it ag in she went, scoop
in out young catfish and scatterin' EN-
to the winds so fast that | see there
wouldn't be one of em left to tell the
tale unless the old catfish got her sec
ond wind pretty quick and done some
thin.
"And she got her second wind, and
riz up ag'in that yaller cat ag'in most
exilaratin' for to see. Seems to me
for five minutes there wasn't nothin'
to be seen on that log but whirIin'
streak o yaller sort o mixed up with
a whirIin streak o black, and cat
cussin'. Merciful mani | Jest had to
plug my fingers in my ears, couldn't
bear to hear it so!
"When the whirln' and back-talk
quit, the catfish was back in the water.
There was catfish hide stretched here
and there on the log most enough to
make a saddle, and enough yaller had
scattered about to stuff it with. The
yaller cat was sort o lclin' herself
here and there, and the catfish was
glarin' at her.
"Thc kittin' was standin' on the log
with her back way up. and her tail
swelled like roIin' pin, and she was
spttin' away at that catfish fierce as
wildcats. The last one o lac catish's
family had been swept off the face Of
the earth.
"The cat fish, seem that the Old cats
kitten was still left. made up her mind
that she'd put an end to the cats FAM
iIy and sort o even things up. 81 she
sprung back on to that log, grabbed
the kitten, and swallowed it, whole
and alive, right before it's mothers
Eyes.
''Jumpin' back into the water. the
catfish turned and stuck her big head
out, close by the log, and as the old cat
was tearin' her hair, as you might say,
II lrustways what little she had left,
md was mnurnn' and moanin' for her
ost kitten, the fish opened her mouth
from ear to ear, SO as the cat could
near her kitten cryin' way down in
he catfiSh's depths. Say! | could
lear that kitten cry myself, way over
on the bank where was sctrin'
"Well,. that voice of her kitten was
more than the bcrcavcd yaIlcr cat
'ould stand. She pounced square on
,op of the catfish and they both went
town together.
81 didn't see nor hear nOthin' more
If either Of 'em for maybe three min
ties, and | made up my mind that the
at had gone to join her kitten, when |
see a ripple on the water, and the .
lext minute the yaller eat come to the
op.
she swan ashore, and She had the
attish in tow. The catfish was dead,
nd considerable clawed up.
"Ihc yaller cat drug it out on
hore. Then she ripped it open with
er claws~and out stepped the kitten,
ig as as life and twice as natural. 1t
as dazed little fer Il spCfI, but soon
ot it's bcarin's, and trottcd away
,ith the old WALLER eat as if nothin had
and didn't tsee 'em no more.
"Therc,' concluded the man from
ochuck, "thrm's the news I've brung
yer this time. Don't you believe |
cen 'em?'
Badly, the landlord, lit his cigar
utt, put it in his mouth and said:
"Yes, | do. But you wouldn't "a
zen 'em if you had stayed away from
le stone frolic."
This view of the case seemed to af.
sct the man from Pochuck so that lie
OF up quick, and without even inqur-
lg if there were any points around
ere in any way resembling those Of
,c kind he said he had run against at
prout Hill, he turned his face p
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