Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-24
KITTY IN ICE BOX
PET OBJECTS TO PIE AS FED AMI STARTS NIGHTGowN
 BRIGADE

DETROIT, Mich, March 23.--The baby put tho cat in the refrigerator. This fact is now well established, though the baby said nothing about it at the time. Neither did the cat. The baby went away to attend to other du- ties, and the cat began to lick the whipped cream off tho cake Later the family retired, taking the baby with them, and the eat, after gnawing the end off bologna sausage, curled up in one corner of the icebox and went to sleep.
 For time silence reigned through out the house. Meanwhile the clammy chill of his bedroom was working through pussy s fur. He stirred uneas. fly in his sleep, and his pr-r-r-r-haw, pr-rr-r-haw, pr-r-rrhaw became inter. mittent and choky. Then he sneezed, arose, and stretched himself.
 It was dark in the refrigerator, and while looking about cautiously for the door the cat stepped in . pumpkin pie This was wholly unintentional, but it made the cat mad. There is nothing that irritates neat, self.respectine eat like getting something mussy on his feet. So this cat got on his dignity and standing on three legs, kicekd out straight, and hard with the sticky feet knocking over the milk bottle. Thomas was angry before, this timc he was ap palled. He had always been fond oi milk, but he didn t want any now. Hii whole feline soul went out in revulsior at standing with all four feet in tho sticky mess. He climbed up on car of kippered herring, and, putting hi, mouth down to the crack in the door he yowled-such yowll
 Tom was proud of his voice. Many a time he had sat on the back fence in the moonlight and listened to it witt thrilling satisfaction, but that was just amusement. He had never let it out then in the full power of its deep diap ason. This time he was in earnest. anC he got on the heavy pedal with al four feet. The result loosened the riv cts in the lining of the refrigerator. It was one prolonged, quavering, de spairing yowl that seemed to start 1T the basement and creep along the hall. until it re-echoed back from the rafter. of the garret. It brought every member of the family out of bed, including tho baby. who in the meanwhile had for gotten the incident of shutting up tho cat.
 A search was begun, but the spunc I proved elusive. One member of tn, family would insist that it came from { clothes press on the second floor, whil. another was sure it originated in tho canned fruit locker down cellar Every one of these places was ransacked, anC their contents strewn over the floors of adjacent rooms, but still no cat
 "There is just one place left where he can be- declared the elder son "that's in the cold-air shaft to tho furnace"
 "0h, shucks, said everybody else but as they had no better theory to of fer the young man got a plumber, whS got busy. and after much hammcrinl succeeded in unjointing the big pipt and bringing down a shower of dus and ashes-no cat.
 Then an inspiration came to tn, baby. Not that he recalled where h, put the cat--oh, no. The whole subiec of the cat had lost it's zest for him " Mamma, said he, CT want jink oi milk" The mother, too, was beginning to think that the search for the ca must be put off to the next day ant the family went back while mothe opened the refrigerator door.
 For moment the air seemed fillet with cats, milk bottles, kippered herr ing and pumpkin pie. When the at mosphere had cleared up and the hol, in the kitchen window had beer | plugged where the eat made his exit the family gathered up the squallins infant, who had been upset in his pet ! flight. and retired.