Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
why | MUST
MOVE

Women are queer Here my sister
and ! have just got nicely settled in
a flat, and now she wants to give 1t
up. took the fiat to please my sis
ter, as she expects to get married
next year, so she wanted to rub up
her knowledge OF housekeeping.
Only the man who has boarded for
ten years can appreciate what hav-
ing his own home means. And now,
just as have begun to enjoy sitting
under my own vine and fig tree and
have ordered flower boxes for the
front windows, have got to get out
the same as got in, just to please my
sister. And it is all because a little
thing happened a week after we got
settled in our apartment, as my sister
did call it. Now she calls it an ugly
tenement
The man my sister is engaged to is
very absent-minded and so near-sight-
ed he cannot see anything unless he
puts his nose right on it. The first
time he came to our apartment-it
was week after we got settled-he
rang the right bell and started up
stairs without stopping to look and
see what floor we lived on. Instead
of going back to find out, he started
in to nose around each door he came
to, looking for our name.
An old Tabby came out of one Of
the flats and seeing him stopping over
the opposite door she thought he was
a sneak thief trying to pick lock. In
stead of steaking to him and asking
him what he wanted she began to fol-
low him up the stairs, watching to see
what he would do.
Our fiat was the right-hand top one
When Tabby looked through the ban
listers of the top fight of stairs and
saw him disappear in our fiat she be-
came greatly alarmed and ran down
stairs and sent the janitor for a po-
liceman, while she stood guard in the
lower hall.
When the policeman came, he, the
janitor and Tabby came UP to our fiat
and rang the bell. My sisters f1ance,
Cecil, was out on the fire escape un-
packing box of china, so the excel
sior would blow over in the next yard,
and he did not hear the bell ring.
don't know where my sister was, but
she did not hear the bell either. AS
for me, | was not home. l had gone
out on an errand.
The policeman knocked on the door
with his club, and as he got no answer
he made the janitor get a bunch Of
keys and try them until he found one
that fitted, and then they all three
walked in. My sister heard stealthy
footsteps and whispering voices in the
hall, so she screamed and locked her
self up in her bedroom. Cecil heard
nothing and, absentmindedly, kept on
dropping the excelsior over the fire es-
cape and watching it float away, while
he waited for my sister to came back
and tell him what to do next. So you
can imagine his surprise when the
cop grabbed him by the coat collar
and yanked him in on the kitchen
floor and stood over him, club in hand
rs this the feller?" said the cop to
Tabby.
Yes, 1t is" said Tabby.
Come on" said the cop, and hauled
Cecil upon his feet and began to hustle
him out of the fiat.
Cecil thought it was time for him to
begin to scream, and he yelled, Liz
zie, come out and save mel" Lizzie is
my sisters name.
The policeman asked Lizzie through
her locked door If she knew the man?
She swore she didn't, and said he
must be burglar and please to take
him away
Just then got back. had hard
work forcing my way up the stairs
and through the crowd into our hall.
What's the matter?' asked the
policeman.
This lady," he said, pointing to
Tabby, says this man is sneak
thief"
"Oh, rot" l exclaimed why ]
have known him since he wore long
dresses" Then / made Lizzie come
out and when she saw that 1t was
Cecil who had been arrested she fell
In his arms, and don't know what
she did say, but everybody began to
laugh. and fired everybody out but
the cop, the janitor and Tabby.
gave Tabby piece Of my mind
and put her out in tears. Next l gave
The cop FIVE spot and told him not to
ell anybody. told the janitor he was
/ fool and he went on mad because |
gave him nothing.
In the meantime Cecil and Lizzie /
lad disappeared. / did not look for
hem, but stuck my head out the par
or window to cool of and think what
he consequences would be. And that
$ the reason my sister wants to give
Up the fiat Foolish, isn't.it?
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