Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-20

my eels.'
"Oh, you're on the rickety chair. You
know the story Of Beauty and the Beast
Mr.. 'Op<ins y
Can't say as | do, my dear. / ear
so many things and reads on EN-, too,
in 'Loyds'."
oh, this is fairy tale. I'll tell YOU"
The door opened again suddenly, and
Mr.. Hopkins wriggled. 1t was fatal.
The chair came unstuek and the little
old man sat down hurriedly on its re-
mains.
THE ail's the place for SIGH as you.
On, you old sinner!" Liza shouted
triumphantly over the fallen old man.
Il come in ere" protested Mr.. Hop
kins. TREMENDOUSLY. ''as being safer likes
Mr.. 'Opllins IS talking to me. Liza,
said Molly, with the accumulated dignity
Of ten years and a visitor.
That's it, exclaimed Liza. stabbing
hairpin robbed from the back of her
head into the cap that had broken from
its moorings and was topping over her
left eye; that's it! Abamboozling the
cart of a young innercentl Do we find
you?' she demanded, threateningly.
Il amt lost" said the old man. Least
ways, | don't know. / may be- Such
treatment upsets me. | never did-no,
not never he concluded. lamely.
oh, no, | dare say not by no means
Always received with open arms, o
course, and taken in and done for as one
of the family! I'd like to ave the dom
o you, you old scaregrow! you'd be done
for, so you would"
Il amt done nothing to YOU; / only
wants to see Mr., Halgernon Runstone.
I've got a dockyment for 'im-most i'm
portant!"
"A dockymcnt! Yes, know you and
your dockyments. You wouldn't ave got
in. honly didn't know as you was ex-
pected"
4 wusn't."
OH What I says is, do we find you ~
AS 'Ow?" The old man. who had risen
by this time and shutfed cautiously
across the room, peered anxiously across
the table he had placed between him and
the irate face and cap.
None Of your persihage cid 'oary
'eaded destroyer Of Apply 'omes! Beer
and vitties?"
Il could" said the old man. rehectively,
Il could do with arf pint, thanking
you 'andsomely."
None of that" Liza observed, in such
a tone that Mr. Hopkins nervously
clutched the table and jerked down two
framed photographs of very astonished
infant trying to bite a toe two inches
away. None Of that If we finds you
we finds YOU, but we don't want none of
your check You're short Of it as it is
amt much more than ugly skin-don't'
get givin' it away"
With that the door shut again, proud
ly rivaling a pOmpOm i'm the noise it
made, and Mr.. Hopkins said, Oil" very
loudly, and tried to turn it into a cough
Liza is very noisy today" said Molly.
Pm glad dad is not at home. You see,
he has TO think when ne is writing. and
you ought to be very tip-toey, then.
Liza can't be. She says she thinks she
was born in a thunder storm, and that
makes her noisy
1T must ave been in a very 'eavy
storm, my dear-a uncommon 'eavy
storm" observed Mr.. Hopkins.
But you don't mind, Mr.. 0pkins, 10
YOU? You don't write. You never have
Sometimes, my dear. in the morning
when I've 'ad stroke of luck-but not
often"
Dad has them most days; he says
they are the price you have to pay for
being a genius. He's eenius-that's
why we are SO poor"
Pore! Pore, my dear? Lorlumme,
this amt so bad, I've been worse-a
table and chairs, and mat and chest,
and heap of things What helse do you
want. that's what hasks?'
oh, lots of things! But now-Oh,
you are the Beast, and it will come al
right"
Eth? Me! l amt no beast, my dear
I'm Il 'ard-working man-leastways
would be if there was any work. But
work is scarce
Il mean the Beast in the tale"
The Beast wifi a tail? ?"
You know-who becomes prince
afterwards
Me prince! Ho, l say Me, Bill
'0pllins. prince! Come, that's bit
strong And who are your"
oh, you see said Molly, confiden-
TALLY, Il am Beauty. And because my
father takes rose from you"--
BEING 'ungry?'
no, no Why should he be hungry?
We'll, he shouldn't ought to pinch
bloatcrs' rocs unless he i. But there.
he's never 'ad nothink from me"
OF course not. | think you are very
stupid, MIR. Hopkins. This is only mag
ination-made up, you know"
oh hot said Mr.. Hopkins, very re-
lieved and smiling in such a way as To
crease his face into faint resemblance
to Il cracked and starred looking glass. |
Now | sees where we are, as the Sleep
walker said when e it the pavement
halter stepping bout of the hattie win
dow. It's game we are playing. /
ham the Beast and YOU are Beauty.
l-umme, | was Silly-but that's me. nv
dear. | was always silly, never quick of !
catching chaps meaning But | don't
think ! can turn into prince not no
how. | did 60 to the waXworks once
but bless you, my dear, they never
moved, 80 can't hape their manners.
But ! can Dark ike a dol"