Evening star., 1909-09-11

an finally asked her what in Noah's arh
she wanted to know for. She says she
couldn't but think that very ill bred. con.
siderin' her age, but she was in a situa-
tion where she had to overlook anythin'
SO she told him as she knowed an he
kTowed. too. as any one could take 3
canary bird an travel anywhere an never
know what it was to be put off for moth.
in. She said he shook the wire little
more, an then he asked her If she was
meanin to lead him to infer that she had
been injected from a car with duck. Sht
says his tone was SO disrespectful that she
felt her own beginnin' to rise, an she
told him SO far from bein' injected shed
been put out. an she had the duck to
prove 1t. He told her as he would advisa
her to try to do the duck up in derby
hat an smuggle him through, an then
without word more. he hung up.
We'll, Mrs. Macy says she just about
never was so mao afore. She says when she
turned around all the men in the store
was laughin', an that made her madder
yet. but there was one on 'em as said h.
felt for her, cause he owned a pair o.
ducks hisself, an he went in the back o.
pretty large, an he went to work an took
the duck out O. the basket an put hin,
into the box. an give Mrs. Macy 'em both
to carry. an put her on another car, an
she set off again.
well, that time she got to the depot all
safe. an there was old DR.. Carter from
Meadville, an it goes without sayin as
old DR.. Carter could drive any duck clean
out O. Mrs. Macy's head, so she an he
set out to be real happy to the Junction.
an the first thing he asked her was il
she'd been buyin' a new bonnet in town.
an she laughed an give the box little
heave, an the bottom come out an the
duck flew down the car.
We'll, Mrs. Lathrop, you can maybe
guess as that was most tryin' both to Mrs
Macy an DR.. Carter as well, as is both
fat an was both wedged in one seat to en-
joy all they could of each other to the
Junction. DR.. Carter was obliged to un-
wedge hisself, an catchin' the duck was
a most awful business, an DIR. Carter had
to get off about as quick as it was done
Well. Mrs. Macy says helpin' to catch
Your duck seems to make every one feel
as free as air, an man come an sat
with her right off an asked her whether
it was duck or drake. Why. she says
she never did-not in all her life-an' he
tod her he could easy tell by catchin' a
spider an givin' 1t to the duck, an if he
took it 1t was a drake, an if she took ii /,
was duck. He asked her If it wasn't so
an she said she couldn't deny 1t, an then
he went back to his own seat, an she rode
the rest o the way tryin' to figure on
where the hitch was in what he said, for
she feels there's hitch, an yet you can't
deny that it's all straight about the spider
We'll. SO she got home an went right
up to her house. put the duck in the rat
trap. and went over to ask the minister
about her shoes. an what do you think,
Mrs. Lathrop. what do you think!-the
minister had clean forgot himself. He
was sittin on his piazza advisin' Mrs.
Brown to make her pound cake by sayin'
One, two. three, mother caught a flea
the flea bein' the butter. and Mrs. Macy
says ii was plain to be seen as he wasn't
a bit pleased at her comm in to have his
memory system applied to her backward.
She says after that she went home to
the duck madder AN ever an put on her
felt slippers an made up her mind as
she'd made up for her lost day by rippin'
up her old carpets an that was the
crownin' pyramid in her Egyptian dark
ness. for it's the carpet as has ended her."
Ny" exclaimed Mrs Lathrop.