The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-04-16
PUSSY AND PUPPY

PUSSY AND PUPPY.
little Martha Hennegan had the measles anc
| had TO stay III bed for Il whole week No little
children were permitted to visit Martha because
their marnmas were afraid they would catch the
, measles; SO mamma and papa and pussy and puppy
were the only ones that came to see Martha
Pussy came in to see Martha most. because nm
Ply was too little to climb upstairs and mamma had
to carry him up. But Martha liked puppv inst as
much pussy Cause" she said, 1T amt puppy's
fault that he is so little"
After supper the doctor came and looked at lit
tie Martha's tongue. and took hold of her wrist
and held it long while, and took out his big gold
watch and looked at it very seriously and Mar
tina asked, whats the matter with your watch
doctor mang
The doctor just smiled and said: Its all right,
pet
Then the doctor turned to mamma and re-
marked: "Her temperature is a little high but she
Is doing all right. She may be restless tonight but
you need not worry about it. She will be nending
in a few days
When the doctor left Martha asked her mother
is my temperature on the top shelf, mamma %
Mamma laughed and pupnv barked and then
mamma inquired: What made you ask such
funny question, Martha ~
Well didn't the doctor say my temperature
was high?"
Then mamma understood and she told Martha
what the doctor meant.
night, and mamma fixed the covers and told Mar
tina she must try to sleep and when mamma was
going downstairs Martha called to her:
Mamma, bring up puppy; [ want to play wiz
pussy"
Il will, dear" answered mamma, as she went
downstairs
Pussy purrng on a chair near Martha's
bed and Martha's little Noahs ark was on the
same chair. Martha looked patiently at pussy and
then admiringly at the little red ark, filed with
wonderful animals of all kinds. Martha felt lit
tie bit sleepy, and she wondered if mamma was
ever going to bring up puppy to me-"
Presently, to her great wonder she saw puppy
put his little nose III at her bedroom door, She
gave little weak laugh and exclaimed with joy:
Come in, puppy, and play with and pussy and
with our Noah's ark Well let you play, won't
we, pussy"
mo, we won't. I don't want to play with no
silly pup; not me- answered PUSSY, arching up
her back and splitting III very threatening man
Now, pussy had never before spoken in Mar
tha's presence and the little sick girl was very
much surprised, but she wasn't bit afraid. She
sat up in bed and shook her little thin finger at
bad pussy, and said: ''How dare you bad bad
pussy speak about poor puppy in that mean way?'
When puppy heard himself defended he
from behind the rocking chair, where he hid
ing, and ran over to the bed and licked Martha's
hand and wagged his tail and licked his little black
a dog knows how to give. Then Martha spoke to
him:
I'm just going to let puppy play first with
my nice ark. now"
'Thank you, Martha thank you very much,'
replied puppy, and Martha laughed until tears came
into her eyes at puppy a-talking."
II kin play better than him. declared pussy,
''You can't, either :" responded puppy with great
spirit
Then pussy pulled the ark down the floor
and took off the lid She next took out al 1.-The ami
mails and stood them up their feet; the big ones
she put first and the little ones last.
Il can beat that" said puppy, and he actually
made them all stand their heads i'll the middle
If the floor.
Martha elapped her hands with pleasure.
Then pussy made all the animals walk around
he floor and Martha was delighted.
Then puppy made them all go over to the bed |
md give, each one, his or her cry for Martha |
o listen to. This delighted her, and pussy was get
ing very angry from envy. She turned to puppy |
md demanded:
"You can't go inside the ark, like can, and I
e only as big as one of those little animals|
eyes, [ can toow snappishly answered puppy
md to show that he knew what he talking
bout he turned into a little wooden dog and got
nto the ark No sooner had he done this than
ussy put all the littsa wooden animals into the
rk right on top of poor little wooden puppy.
Then naughty pussy put on the I'D, ana puppy
ras prisoner in the ark.
Pussy laughed long and heartily when she sue
eeded in shutting up puppy, and poor, sick Mar
ha began to cry very bitterly She got out of bed
nd declared, weepingly:
II am going to bring my ark down to papa, and
ell fix puppy and I'll bring you to mamma, and
QUILL get good whipping, now"
So she took her ark in arm and pussy in
he other in. search of papa and mamma She
allied for them as she went slowly down the stair
ay, but She kept tight hold on pussy and the
rk. q
She had gone partly down the stairs when she
lw puppy running, or rather irving to run, up to
leet her She laughed gleefully and cried out:
Who let YOU out, puppy! How did you get out,
uppy. Who turned you into real dog again,
uppy~
"Gracious That child is out on the stairway,
apa! What on earth is the matters Wait, dar-
ng, and III come to youl Did you come down
or puppy. was Just about 10 bring him up to my
lex darling" Il