The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-16
why | MUST
MOVE

a fat, and now she wants to give II
up. ] took the fat 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 ng tree and
have ordered flower boxes for the
front windows, I 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 1t. Now she calls 1t an ugly
tenement
The man my sister IL engaged to il
very absent-minded and 80 nsar-sight-
ed he cannot see anything unless he
puts his nose right on It, The frst
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 fats and seeing him STOPPING over
the opposite door she thought he was
a sneak thief trying TO pick = lock. In
stead of speaking 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 righthand top one
When Tabby looked through the ban
listers Of the top flight of stairs and
saw him disappear in our nat 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. Ny sisters nance,
Cecil, was out on the 1re escape un-
packing a 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. had gone
out on an errand.
The policeman knocked on the door
with his club, and a. 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, 30 she screamed and locked her
self UP in her bedroom. Cecil heard
nothing and, absentmindedly, kept on
dropping the excelsior over the Gre eS-
cape and watching It nOat 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 cellar
and yanked him In on the kitchen
floor and stood over him, club in hand
rs this the felleri" said the cop to
Tabby.
Yes, 1t IT," said Tabby
Come on" said the cop, and hauled
COCAA uKOAA AAM AOUh anu DCkAal ~ nubNlC
him Oat Of the nat.
Cecil thought 1t was time for him to
begin to scream, and he yelled. LIS
zie, come out and save mel" Lizzie Is
my sisters name.
The policeman asked LinHis through
her locked door II she know the mAai
She swore she didn't, and said he
must be a burglar and please to take
him away.
Just then got back. had hard
work forcing my way w the stairs
and through the crowd into eur hall.
What's the matter?" asked the
policeman.
"Tkia lady" he said, Reintizg to
Tabby. says this man h sneak
thief"
"Oh, rot!" / exclaimed. WAY. ]
have known him since he wore long
dresses" Then l made Lizzie ooms
out and whom she saw that It 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 l fired everybody out but
the cop, the janitor and Tabby.
gave Tabby a piece OF my mind
and put her out in tears. Next gave
the COP five spot and told him not 70
tell anybody | told the janitor he was
a fool and he went off mad because |
gave him nothing.
In the meantime Cecil and Lizzie
had disappeared. | did not look for
them. but stuck my head out the par
Tor window to cool on and think what
the consequences would be- And that
is the reason my sister wants to give
up the fiat Foolish, isn't III
Strange street Names In China.