The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-08-05

Katy fed up the cellar stairs, drop
ping potatoes and carrots at every
misstep. This is the last!" she
gasped. I'm tellin' ye wanst fer all,
maam, the baste goes or l dol" And
a moment later the baste" himself
appeared-a small, unprepossessing,
whity-yellow ferret, wrapped in the
arms of "Jimpsey" Englehart, the
son of the house.
Mrs. Englehart stood uncertainty
between them. Well, Katy, I'm
sure haven't any fondness for him
myself He should have been sent
back at once"
Yes" said Jimpsey, fairly in tears,
"yes, after he's gone and done his
killed them just in punches, tool
then nobody has any sympathy for
him any more!"
Sympathy" Katy choked at 1t.
"The blood suckin' little pink eyes!
II | could fetch him only wan clip
with the furnace shaker!"
You do now! Mother, you better
tell her now! For If ever she does
BY this time Mrs. Englehart could
once more hold the scales of justice
evenly. "Jlmpsey," she said, we're
not denying how valuable he's been.
When l think of the way we were
pestered with rats hardly two weeks
ago But you ought to think of
the people who are pestered with
them still. and pass him on to them.
The Lisgars and Appletons have just
as many as we had"
Well, why can't they go and buy
ferrets of their own, then? But 1
guess they'll never get any like
Togo!"
Then you must keep him in the
stable. Why must he be forever go
Ing back to the cellar?"
Why. because that's where he had
the most fun, of course! l keep
him in his box, too, only he chews his
way out again"
Togo" seemed to blink his little
albino eyes in pleasant corroboration.
Katy could hardly resist making a
pass at him.
Jimpsey retreated vengefully to-
ward the outer door. "And now, too,
when he even knows my whistle! /.
can send him into that hole away up
In front OF the coal bin, and then
whistle through my fingers into the
hole away back near where we keep
the potatoes, and he comes up just
as II 1t was only the other side of the
partition. He'll do II every time /
give him meat scrap. I guess there
aren't many ferrets trained like
that"
Again Mrs. Englehart gave up.
Yet 1t was with very uneasy mind
that she gave up. Only too clearly
did she feel that IL there was another
meeting between Katy and Togo in
the shadowy glimpses of the coal and
vegetable bins, there would no longer
be any chance to choose between
them. And Katy was the one really
good cook she had ever had. She de-
eided at last that 1t was something
that Mr.. Englehart must settle, al
though in the main 1t was against her
principles to trouble him with such
domestic problems.
That day Mr.. Englehart returned
from the new college buildings with
worry on his face.
Belle" he said, I'm about ready
to QUIT"
why. dear" she asked. what is
It now?"
oh, Orv again. A young architect
IKE that--with the brains for It.. too
gets Job that gives him his chance
20 make a name through the whole
state. He's uplifted that he marries
On 1t. And then he lets fat headed
contractor make fool of himself and
nim about once week. When that
business OF the chimney supports got
out the Journal gave him enough
pad advertising to kill two ordinary
equations. And now he spread
ou' his hands on the table.
Dear. dear!" The thing went at
once to Mrs. Englehart's heart in
way that 1t could not do to her hus-
Dand's. For It was her sister Anna
.nat the clever young Mr.. Oryille
na'iland had married. 'And, oh,
'ne night that Journal article was
published l could see them both
s'ow years older while they were
ss,s sssains y. What Is II Maions's done
"oh, II was Malone, all right. In 4